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Women sit for a civil service test at Belmont High School, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Women sit for a civil service test at Belmont High School, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: April, 1936
1936-04
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.
Rows upon rows of women fixate writing or reading their exams, some still wearing their hats and coats.
Photograph appears with the article, "Women Seek Police Jobs," Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr 1936: A8.
During the exam there was a slight interruption from several juvenile department employees who claimed that they were angry because the tests were designed to create new positions rather than promote those already in service.
Text from negative sleeve: 4966 - Exams for Police Women Belmont High 4/10/36 [stamped:] Apr 1936
Handwritten on negative: Exams for Police Women 4/19036
Text from newspaper caption: From this roomful of 252 applicants for civil service positions, several scores of policewomen will be selected for the Los Angeles force. They were photographed at Belmont High School, while answering questions on law, criminal procedure and juvenile delinquency prevention.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14133
ark:/21198/zz002j7nwg
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Policewomen--California--Los Angeles
Desks
Civil service--California--Los Angeles
Examinations--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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