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Women learning to sew at the Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Women learning to sew at the Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 31, 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.
This photograph appears with the article, “Scenes Depict Trade Instruction for Unemployed at Wiggins School,” Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 1935: A1.
Photograph of unidentified women of various ages using sewing machines to learn how to become seamstresses. Instructors stand behind to overlook their students’ work.
Handwritten on negative: Frank Wiggins Trade School.
Text from negative sleeve: 1894—Frank Wiggins Trade School—8/30/35. [Stamped:] SEP 4 1935.
Text from newspaper caption: Hundreds of unemployed housewives have learned power-machine sewing during the ten-week emergency educational program this summer. Shown at work with the machines at the Frank Wiggins Trade School is a group of potential seamstresses.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8199
ark:/21198/zz002dg1km
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Sewing machines
Seamstresses
Women--California--Los Angeles
Vocational education--California--Los Angeles
Frank Wiggins Trade School
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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