Women and children picket outside of the Works Progress Administration during a sit-down strike, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title
Women and children picket outside of the Works Progress Administration during a sit-down strike, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created
December 6, 1936
Date
1936-12-06
Publisher
Los Angeles Daily News
Language
No linguistic content
Collection
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
Description
Women and children picket outside of the Works Progress Administration during a sit-down strike. Twenty or more seamstresses participated in the strike and demanded that women who had been laid off get re-hired.
Caption
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Picketing at W.P.A. 12th and Santee sts.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Sitdown Strikes; WPA; Santee and 12th St.; Picketing.

Physical Description

Extent
1 photograph
Medium
b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names
United States. Work Projects Administration (Calif.)
Location
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type
still image
Subjects
Strikes--California--Los Angeles
Activism

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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