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Title: Los Angeles County public assistance, chart
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Chart reads: "Usual Occupations of Relief Clients, Los Angeles County". Proportional figures represent the percentage of relief funds received by occupation. They are, in order of prominence, building & construction, manual & service, office & clerical, professional & technical, arts & crafts. Building/construction received 50% of the funds. The figure for arts & crafts is barely discernable. Chart dated: Oct., 1936.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00067748
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 385 4x5
CARL0000072813
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2338
Subject: Statistics--Charts, diagrams, etc
Public welfare--California--Los Angeles County--Charts, diagrams, etc
Welfare recipients--California--Los Angeles County
Construction workers--California--Los Angeles County
Depressions--1929
Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Charts, diagrams, etc
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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