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S. H. Patterson found discarded cans of government-issued food on the street, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: S. H. Patterson found discarded cans of government-issued food on the street, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 22, 1936
1936-03-22
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Vacationing Pittsburgh lawyer S. H. Patterson claims to have found several discarded cans full of at least twenty pounds of government-issued food along the sidewalk at Third Street and Union Avenue.
Photograph appears rotated with the article, "Dole Meat Abandoned," Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar 1936: A1.
S. H. Patterson poses for the camera with a can of food.
Text from negative sleeve: 4477 - S. H. Patterson Relief food Thrown Away 3/21/36 [stamped:] Mar 25 1935
Handwritten on negative: S. H. Patterson 3/21/36
Text from newspaper caption: S. H. Patterson with one of the cans of discarded government beef he found on the sidewalk. The beef, for dole recipients, apparently had been thrown away.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13675
ark:/21198/zz002hnx80
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Canned foods
Vacations--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers
Assistance--California--Los Angeles
Patterson, S. H., (Attorney)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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