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Title: San Francisco Social Security Office
Creator: Dorothea Lange
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Publication Information: Oakland Museum of California
Contributing Institution: Oakland Museum of California
Collection: Lange (Dorothea) Collection
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Description: The Unemployment Benefits Act begins, Jan 4 Coincident with the announcement that the Federal Unemployment Census showed close to 10 million persons out of work. 22 states began paying unemployment compensation. Negatives show lines and groups of men at the State Employment Service offices in San Francisco Oakland Berkeley, registering, or waiting to register, filling out forms, etc., on the first day. They can receive from $6 - $15 per week for up to 16 weeks.
Type: image
Format: Photonegative Agfa nitrate film photography
Form/Genre: photonegative
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4q2nb0ks
LNG36013.1
Subject: Depression; Social Security; San Francisco; unemployment; man; woman; eyeglasses

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