Photograph of Charles P. Schottland, Roy W. Pilling, and Archibald Young, administrators of Los Angeles' and California's state relief organizations during the Great Depression.

Item Overview

Title

Photograph of Charles P. Schottland, Roy W. Pilling, and Archibald Young, administrators of Los Angeles' and California's state relief organizations during the Great Depression.

Date Created

[circa 1935-1936]

Date

1935/1936

Publisher

Los Angeles Daily News

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notes

Description

Photo depicting Charles I. Schottland (center), director of the California State Relief Association, meets with Roy W. Pilling (right), director of the Los Angeles County Relief Association, and Archibald Young, chairman of the Citizens' Relief Committee of Los Angeles. All three men held various high-level positions within California's State Emergency Relief Association and related groups over the course of their careers in public service. These groups included SERA's successor the California State Relief Association and its local branches, and the Citizens' Relief Committee.

Caption

Text from original nitrate sleeve: Young, Archibald; Schottland, Charles P.; Pilling, Roy W.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: L to R - Archibald Young - Chas P. Schottland - Roy W. Pilling.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Schottland, Charles I.
Pilling, Roy W., 1886-1937
Young, Archibald

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Government officials--American--California
Government officials--American--California--Los Angeles