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Title: West Adams district unemployment committee
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: The West Adams district unemployment committee today began solicitation of a $3000 fund to beautify that section as a measure to provide work for jobless men. Photo shows committee members explaining their plan to C. P. Visel, agent for the city. From left to right are: Mrs. Arthur C. Weir; Mrs. Henry H. Lissner; Mr. Visel and Miss Emily Hirsch. Under the plan, 20 men will be provided with work for 90 days. Only men living in the district will be employed. Photo dated: February 10, 1931.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00047540
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1831.
CARL0000051004
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16745
Subject: Transients, Relief of
Men--California--Los Angeles
Unemployed--California--Los Angeles
West Adams (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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