Image / Women employed by SERA work with a wheelbarrow, Los Angeles, circa 1934

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Title: Women employed by SERA work with a wheelbarrow, Los Angeles, circa 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1934]
1934
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Women employed by State Emergency Relief Administration (SERA) repair a wheelbarrow. In the 1930s, SERA started fifteen work projects in Los Angeles for unemployed men and women. SERA created approximately 1008 jobs for women, including office and sewing jobs.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Unemployment relief SERA.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Sera - unemployed relief; In pencil: "Unemployed"
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz002547c1
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: New Deal, 1933-1939--California--Los Angeles County
Unemployed--California--Los Angeles
Business
California. Emergency Relief Administration
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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