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Title: Los Angeles County relief load, chart
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
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: "Los Angeles County Total Relief Load". From 1924 to 1929, public assistance cases were below 10,000 per year. From 1930, the cases spike with 1935 almost off the chart at 170,000, highlighting the effects of the Great Depression. Cases tracked were for Bureau of County Welfare, Problem; Bureau of County Welfare, Unemployment; Civil Works Administration; L.A. County Relief Administration, Work; L.A. County Relief Administration, Direct.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00067734
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 371 4x5
CARL0000072805
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2330
Subject: Statistics--Charts, diagrams, etc
Public welfare--California--Los Angeles County--Charts, diagrams, etc
Depressions--1929
Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Charts, diagrams, etc
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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