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Adeline Shorb, upon release from Lincoln Heights jail for using a fictitious name to obtain relief, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Adeline Shorb, upon release from Lincoln Heights jail for using a fictitious name to obtain relief, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 15, 1935
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Adeline Shorb, upon release from Lincoln Heights jail for using a fictitious name, Anna Shorb, to obtain relief from the Los Angeles County Relief Administration. She used a former name because she was too ashamed to make her poverty public knowledge. The Lincoln Heights jail building is located at 421 North Avenue 19.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, “Hidden Identity Revealed: Mrs. Shorb Sixteen Days in Cell for Violation of Relief Regulation,"16 Aug. 1935: A1.
Handwritten on negative: Anna Shorb. 8/15/35.
Text from negative sleeve: 1691. Anna [sic] Shorb. S.E.R.A. Fraud. 8/15/35. [stamped:] Aug 22 1935.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10054
ark:/21198/zz002ddt43
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Assistance--California--Los Angeles
Shorb, Adeline, 1888-1956
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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