Adeline Shorb, upon release from Lincoln Heights jail for using a fictitious name to obtain relief, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Adeline Shorb, upon release from Lincoln Heights jail for using a fictitious name to obtain relief, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: August 15, 1935
Date: 1935-08-15
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Adeline Shorb, upon release from Lincoln Heights jail for using a fictitious name, Anna Shorb, to obtain relief from the Los Angeles County Relief Administration. She used a former name because she was too ashamed to make her poverty public knowledge. The Lincoln Heights jail building is located at 421 North Avenue 19.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, “Hidden Identity Revealed: Mrs. Shorb Sixteen Days in Cell for Violation of Relief Regulation,"16 Aug. 1935: A1.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Anna Shorb. 8/15/35.
Text from negative sleeve: 1691. Anna [sic] Shorb. S.E.R.A. Fraud. 8/15/35. [stamped:] Aug 22 1935.

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