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Title: Heads of National and State Federal Transient Service gather for conference, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: July 10, 1934
1934-07-10
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.
Photograph of Heads of National and State Transient Services as they gather for a conference to discuss the ways to reduce vagrancy. F. H. Holcomb, assistant director of Maryland, Marshall B. Thompson, director of Texas, William J. Plunkert, national director and Harold A. R. Carleton, director of California. California, in that year, had the most transients registered with the Federal Transient Service than any state in the Union.
Photograph published with the article, "California Has Lead in Transients, Federal Service Director Discusses Situation as He Arrives for Conferences," Los Angeles Times, 11 July, 1934: A5.
Text on negative sleeve: Holcomb, F. H.; Former director of Texas & then asst. dir. of Maryland Transient Service; Transient Service Conference @ S. E. R. A. HQ.
Text from newspaper caption: Transient Bureau Leaders Confer on Vagrancy Issue
Handwritten on negative: F. H. Holcomb; Marshall B. Thompson, Wm. J. Plunkert, H. A. R. Carleton
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9534
ark:/21198/zz002dhmms
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Meetings--California--Los Angeles
Government officials--American--California--Los Angeles
United States. Federal Transient Service
Holcomb, F. H
Thompson, Marshall B
Carleton, Harold A. R., 1893-1976
Plunkert, William J., 1900-1972
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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