Sujet

Unemployment benefits aid begins, State Employment Service office, San Francisco, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation.

Date

1938

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A50_372

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

505,2Mo (18,3Mo) / 126,7cm x 99,9cm / 14961 x 11803 (300dpi)

Mots clés

California people male interior employment man men queue waiting economics country San Francisco guy photography poor poverty location century inside queuing thirties concept depression negative recession film negative B&W unemployed unemployment United States of America welfare Indoors black & white black and white B W Dole 1930s 20th century Great Depression American America USA TGN photograph unemployment benefit united states Welfare State Heritage Art Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI United States Office of War Information Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta dole office