Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) workers build a 24 mile long Bell sewer, 12 deep in Los Angeles, California. They dig and brace the sides of the trench using pounded stakes. They add a gravel bed and then lay pipes into the trench. Engineers gather to inspect the pipe, led by LACRA chief engineer Ralph Smith. By hand, workers operate a giant pump handle with a massive hook on the end, which pulls massive timbers from deep buried positions along the line of the trench.
Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) workers cut and sort lumber in a Santa Monica, California lumber yard, largely comprised of old discarded sets from Hollywood movie studios. Truckloads of old wood arrive at the yard and it is sorted and cut further. Woman with a young boy stands in front of stacks of smaller lumber available to citizens as firewood, for aid during the Great Depression. The boy pulls his small wagon loaded with firewood.
Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) work with Sheriff's probation officers in enlisting youth for work during the Great Depression in the United States. A juvenile offender undergoes interview with probation officers. Young men work at the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Camp near San Bernardino, California, digging into rock and gravel and dirt piles as they build new roads. Boy workers seated at a table eat food. They are shown seated receiving school lectures, and playing baseball and boxing. The American flag is lowered outside the camp barracks (operating similar to a CCC or Civilian Conservation Corps camp).
Aircraft parked at a Los Angeles, California airport that is undergoing expansion. Horse pulled earth-moving carts carve new runways. Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) workers construct two runways at the airfield.
Sewing Projects sponsored by the Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA). Women workers enter building in California. They sew clothes on sewing machines. Women of all races work together to sew, knit and embroider clothes for the needy during the Great Depression.
Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) women workers work in an office administering the free distribution of relief commodities during the Great Depression. They create punch cards on large punch machine and place them on sorting tray. The cards are distributed and tabulated in a device that gives detailed reports of the relief commodities. Workers work in the storeroom. View of produce boxes labeled 'Not to Be Sold'. Workers load the boxes onto trucks.
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