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Women and children picket outside of the Works Progress Administration during a sit-down strike, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Women and children picket outside of the Works Progress Administration during a sit-down strike, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: December 6, 1936
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 and children picket outside of the Works Progress Administration during a sit-down strike. Twenty or more seamstresses participated in the strike and demanded that women who had been laid off get re-hired.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Sitdown Strikes; WPA; Santee and 12th St.; Picketing.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Picketing at W.P.A. 12th and Santee sts.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1387_14271-00
ark:/21198/zz00288fbf
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Strikes--California--Los Angeles
Activism
United States. Work Projects Administration (Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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