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Day laborers work to widen the road through Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1933

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Title: Day laborers work to widen the road through Griffith Park, 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.
Eight men, day laborers, work with shovels and picks to widen the road through Griffith Park. Part of a car can be seen on the right side of the image.
Related to Los Angeles Times articles, "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, and "Park Drive Job Proving Unique, Griffith Road Being Rushed by R.F.C. Work army, Six Thousand Men Finding Daily Employment, Widened Highway to Offer Rare Valley View." 2 Apr. 1933: pg. 18.
Text from negative sleeve: United States Reconstruction Finance Corp. Griffith Park Road Building
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4084
ark:/21198/zz002cpt69
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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