Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Young Los Angelino Yvonne Marion Wolff sits piled under produce grown in a local community garden.Beginning in 1933, small tracts of land throughout Los Angeles county were used by the government as locations for community gardens, where men left unemployed by the Great Depression could work and grow food to feed their families. In 1933, 890 acres of land in Los Angeles County were used toward this purpose; the program expanded to 2,500 acres of land in 1934. This land was approximately enough to grow the vegetables consumed by 20,000 county welfare families. Text from original nitrate sleeve: Wolff, Yvonne Marion; Smith, Linton H.*
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b&w nitrate negative
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People Lifestyle Environment Farming--California Wolff, Yvonne Marion
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