Image / Woman sewing mattress in California State Emergency Relief Administration work program, 1935

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Title: Woman sewing mattress in California State Emergency Relief Administration work program, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
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 laborers constructing mattresses for a SERA employment program at a factory in Kern fairgrounds.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: SERA Mattress making; Lenore Pettitt; Olive Ward; Rosalind Roennburg(?).
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: SERA working
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz00254hq2
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Economy
Factories--California--Los Angeles
New Deal, 1933-1939--California--Los Angeles County
Unemployed women workers--Training of--California--Los Angeles County
Mattresses--United States
California. Emergency Relief Administration
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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