Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photo taken when Hopkins, then national administrator of the WPA, met with local relief leaders in Los Angeles during a trip with President Roosevelt. Connolly was LA county Public Works Administrator. Young was chairman of the Citizens’ Relief Committee. Hinckley was director of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Pilling was director of LA County Relief Administration. McLaughlin was state director of the WPA. Handwritten annotation from negative: L to R Col. Donald H. Connolly, Archibald B Young, Harry L. Hopkins, Robert H. Hinckley, Roy W. Piling, Frank Y McLaughlin Text from archival nitrate sleeve: Connolly, Donald H., Col.; Young, Archibald B; Hopkins, Harry L.; Hinckley, Robert H.; Pilling, Roy W.; McLaughlin, Frank Y. Text from original nitrate sleeve: Connolly, Donald H., Col.; Young, Archibald B; Hopkins, Harry L.; Hinckley, Robert H.; Pilling, Roy W.; McLaughlin, Frank Y.
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image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
ark:/21198/zz00254zjr
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Economy People Government officials--American--California--Los Angeles Connolly, Donald H. (Donald Hilary), 1886-1969 Hopkins, Harry Lloyd, 1890-1946 Pilling, Roy W., 1886-1937 United States. Public Works Administration Young, Archibald B., 1882-1955 Hinckley, Robert Henry, 1891-1988 McLaughlin, Frank Y. (Frank Yonc), 1883-1945
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