Arline Chewning in front of a home created as part of a the Federal Project of Subsistence Homes, El Monte, 1935

Title: Arline Chewning in front of a home created as part of a the Federal Project of Subsistence Homes, El Monte, 1935
Date Created: July 26, 1935
Date: 1935-07-26
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Arline Chewning, secretary to Ross H. Gast, project manager, visits one of fifty Federal homesteads recently completed at El Monte and which await final inspection and acceptance by the government. The project is attracting hundreds of visitors.
Photograph appears with the article, "Fifty El Monte Homes Await Rurban Group," Los Angeles Times, 29 Jul. 1935: 14.
The Subsistence Homesteads Division of the US Department of the Interior (DSH or SHD) was a New Deal agency that was intended to give safe residences to urban poor in small plots of land that would allow them to sustain themselves. Unlike subsistence farming, subsistence homesteading is based on a family member or members having part-time, paid employment.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 1657. Mrs. Arline Chewning. Federal project in El Monte. "Subsistence homes." 7-26-35. [stamped:] Aug 2[?], 1935

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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