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Title: California Transient Aid Department Director Dorothy Wysor Smith, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: Aug. 2, 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.
Dorothy Wysor Smith, social worker and director of Los Angeles County's transient aid department, as she talks to reporters about California's transient relief problems. Mrs. Smith later served as the Executive Secretary of the Travelers Aid Society of Los Angeles till her retirement in 1947.
Cropped photo accompanied by article: "Pauper Aid Tale Spiked -- Jobless-Influx Crisis Denied, Director Asserts Problem Can Be Met as Long as Washington Pays," Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 1935: A3
Handwritten on negative: Dorothy Wysor Smith, 8/2/35
Text on negative sleeve: 1607 - Aug 14 1935; Dorothy Wysor Smith; S.E.R.A., 8/2/35
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9955
ark:/21198/zz002dj447
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Social workers--California--Los Angeles
Smith, Dorothy Eads Wysor, 1889-1969
United States. Federal Transient Service
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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