Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. In California, the State Emergency Relief Administration (SERA) was created in 1933 as a provision of the Unemployment Bond Relief Act. The agency was tasked with alleviating poverty conditions caused by the Great Depression. Responsibilities included distributing state and federal funds for unemployment relief. View of a long line of men, in suits and hats, in an alley waiting for S.E.R.A. checks. Blocks of alphabet letters, "ABC," "DEFG," and "HIJK" are posted on the wall on the left. A Sparkletts delivery truck is parked on the right. Related to the article, "NEW RELIEF PLANS MADE: County Division to Be Set Up Care Must Be Set Up. Care Must Be Given 25,000 to 40,000, L.A.C.R.A. Head Declares," Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 1935: 4. Text from newspaper caption: Waiting for Aid Pay Checks: Scores of relief clients who were transferred from the dole to W.P.A. work are shown above lined up and waiting for their pay checks. Delayed pay days, caused by transfers, left many penniless and hungry, it was said. The L.A.C.R. provided them with grocery orders to help carry them until the situation is straightened out. [Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 1935: 4] Text from negative sleeve: 3096. Waiting for SERA checks. 12-10-35. [Stamped:] Dec 11 1935
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image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_10896 ark:/21198/zz002hb15v
Subject
Queues--California--Los Angeles Assistance--California--Los Angeles California. State Employment Service
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