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Title: Car washing sponsored by the Layne Foundation, Los Angeles, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: June 1932
1932-06
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.
The Layne Foundation uses its resources to feed hungry and unemployed men.
Photograph appears with the article, "Jobless Men Earning Food," Los Angeles Times, 05 June 1932: A1.
A group of men crowd around a car parked beneath a canopy. Other men and cars can be seen around them.
Text from newspaper caption: Public Gets Return for Share in Aid Effort Automobile washers earning their meals through the Layne Foundation and, below, Ollyn A. Layne, and a waiter at the Layne flapjack machine. Inset, Mrs. M. E. Layne.
Text from negative sleeve: LAYNE, OLLYN Layne, Ollyn (A.)
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5459
ark:/21198/zz002cvgvj
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Automobiles--American--California--Los Angeles
Philanthropy--California--Los Angeles
Car washes--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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