Title

In front of city hall, San Francisco, California , 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

In front of city hall, San Francisco, California. The Worker's Alliance, Works Progress Administration (WPA) organize simultaneous demonstrations in the large cities of the nation cut in the relief appropriation by the United States Congress. [Signs: 'American Communications Association'; 'We Can Just Survive on $55'; 'Expand WPA to 4,000,000 Jobs'].

Date

1939

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A51_336

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

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66,5Mb (2,0Mb) / 15,6in x 16,5in / 4683 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors signs California building people male library employment man men architecture politics economics flag flags country sign balcony balconies San Francisco trade guy Town Hall photography poor poverty political location century banner banners organisation thirties demonstrating concept depression negative recession city hall protest demonstration B&W placard standard protestors protestor Library of Congress protesting demonstrator demonstrators protester United States of America Architectural Feature protesters black & white black and white B W 1930s WPA placards 20th century Great Depression American America USA demo New Deal TGN trade union trade unionist outside photograph united states trade unionism 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 WAA Workers Alliance of America