Women learning to sew at the Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Women learning to sew at the Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: August 31, 1935
Date: 1935-08-31
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: This photograph appears with the article, “Scenes Depict Trade Instruction for Unemployed at Wiggins School,” Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 1935: A1.
Photograph of unidentified women of various ages using sewing machines to learn how to become seamstresses. Instructors stand behind to overlook their students’ work.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Frank Wiggins Trade School.
Text from newspaper caption: Hundreds of unemployed housewives have learned power-machine sewing during the ten-week emergency educational program this summer. Shown at work with the machines at the Frank Wiggins Trade School is a group of potential seamstresses.
Text from negative sleeve: 1894—Frank Wiggins Trade School—8/30/35. [Stamped:] SEP 4 1935.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Frank Wiggins Trade School
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.032734
Latitude: -118.269903
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Vocational education--California--Los Angeles
Seamstresses
Women--California--Los Angeles
Sewing machines

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_8199
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dg1km
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Rights Country: US
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