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Men loading sacks of onions onto a truck as part of the WPA garden project, Los Angeles, 1930s

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Title: Men loading sacks of onions onto a truck as part of the WPA garden project, Los Angeles, 1930s
Date Created and/or Issued: [1938 and 1939]
1938/1939
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.
Men loading sacks of onions onto a truck as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) garden project. The WPA was a New Deal agency which employed millions of people across the country to carry out public works projects. In 1938 the WPA garden project employed 1867 people on 665 acres.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: WPA Garden Project - Onions
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: WPA - Garden Project - Onions
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0025gghz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Harvesting--California--Los Angeles
Government
Depressions--California--Los Angeles
Agricultural laborers--American--California--Los Angeles
Gardens--California--Los Angeles
Transportation
Business
Onions--California--Los Angeles
United States. Works Progress Administration
New Deal, 1933-1939
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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