Sujet

Mass meeting of WPA workers parading up Market Street, San Francisco, California , 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Mass meeting of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers parading up Market Street. San Francisco, California. The meeting was held in protest to cuts make by Congress in relief appropriations. [Placards: 'We Want Work - Not Starvation!'; 'Jobs for the Jobless'; 'Was the Cow Palace Built Leaning on Shovels'].

Date

1939

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A51_343

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

66,3Mo (1,6Mo) / 39,6cm x 42,0cm / 4672 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

California people male library work employment man men walking politics economics worker country San Francisco guy photography poor poverty political location century marching thirties concept march depression negative recession protest demonstration B&W placard rally benefits benefit protestors protestor unemployed unemployment Library of Congress protesting demonstrator demonstrators protester United States of America welfare protesters black & white black and white B W 1930s WPA placards 20th century Great Depression political event workers American America USA demo New Deal TGN photograph united states Welfare State protest movement Congressional Library 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 Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta nitrate negative Work Projects Administration Works Progress Administration Emergency Relief Appropriation Act government assistance