Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Text from newspaper caption: Miss Ruth Woodward of Sierra Madre inspects living room of one of the recently completed homes for ruran dwellers at El Monte. The Subsistence Homesteads Division of the US Department of the Interior (DSH or SHD) was a New Deal agency that was intended to give safe residences to urban poor in small plots of land that would allow them to sustain themselves. Unlike subsistence farming, subsistence homesteading is based on a family member or members having part-time, paid employment. Photograph appears with the article, "Fifty El Monte Homes Await Rurban Group," Los Angeles Times, 29 Jul. 1935: 14. Text from negative sleeve: 1657. Miss Ruth Woodward of El Monte. Federal project of subsistence homes. 8-14-35. [stamped:] Aug 22 1935.
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