Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. The four men sit on sofas surrounding a large open book. The relief officials are unsure whether the Federal Relief program will work to improve conditions in California during the Great Depression, but are optimistic and express the ability to revamp it if it doesn't work. Photograph appears with the article, "Aid Program Under Test," Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec 1935: A1. Text from negative sleeve: 2420 - Robert Hinckley Lawrence Westbrook Frank Y. Mc Laughlin Col. Donald H. Connolly 12/20/35 Text from insert in negative sleeve: 12/18/35. L-R Robert H. Hinckley, Salt Lake City, Regional director for F.E.R.A. [Federal Emergency Relief Administration] and W.P.A. [Works Progress Administration]; Col. Lawrence Westbrook, Washington, D.C., assistant national relief administrator; Frank Y. McLaughlin, San Francisco, California state administrator for F.E.R.A., S.E.R.A. [State Emergency Relief Administration] and W.P.A.; Col. Donald H. Connolly, W.P.A. director in Los Angeles County. Text from newspaper caption: Highest relief officials met here yesterday to discuss the local relief crisis. Here they are, left to right: Robert H. Hinckley of Salt Lake City, Federal relief administrator for the Western States; Col. Lawrence Westbrook of Washington, D. C., assistant national relief administrator; Frank Y. McLaughlin of San Francisco, Federal and State relief administrator in California; Col. Donald H. Connolly, Federal Works Progress Administrator in Los Angeles county.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8857 ark:/21198/zz002dgt82
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Coffee tables Military personnel--American--California--Los Angeles Assistance--California--Los Angeles Depressions--California--Los Angeles McLaughlin, Frank Y. (Frank Yonc), 1883-1945 United States. National Recovery Administration Hinckley, Robert Henry, 1891-1988 Connolly, Donald H. (Donald Hilary), 1886-1969 Westbrook, Lawrence, 1889-1964
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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