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Cars on the road through Griffith Park with laborers in the background widening the road, Los Angeles 1933

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Title: Cars on the road through Griffith Park with laborers in the background widening the road, Los Angeles 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: April, 1933
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Dozens of cars line the road through Griffith Park, and in the background a handful of laborers can be seen working on widening the road.
Photograph appears with the article, "High and Low Wield Picks in R.F.C. Relief Project: Motley Crew Found at Work on Griffith Park Roads, With Many Driving Own Cars to Job," Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 1933: 19
Text from negative sleeve: United States Reconstruction Finance Corp. Griffith Park Road Building
Text from newspaper caption: Class Lines Vanish in R.F.C. Labor Gangs: Bankers or Bootblacks - They Get 40 Cents an Hour Now; below, a few of more than 1000 autos driven to work by relief labroers"
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4083
ark:/21198/zz002cpt5s
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Depressions--California--Los Angeles
Laborers--California--Los Angeles
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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