Object Details
- photographer
- Mydans, Carl
- Description
- Just a few months before World War II broke out, Mydans was in California. A decade of economic crises had men like 54-year-old engineer Maurice J. Shannon searching for jobs wherever they could find them. Although the economy was recovering to the levels of the late 1920s, unemployment maintained a high, steady number throughout the following decade.
- Despite California's effort in the 1930s to create jobs and stabilize the state's economy by building massive structures-- such as the Hoover Dam, the Coit Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge-- people still faced hardships.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1939-07
- 1939
- ID Number
- 2005.0228.055
- accession number
- 2005.0228
- catalog number
- 2005.0228.055
- Object Name
- photograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 30 in x 20 in; 76.2 cm x 50.8 cm
- place made
- United States: California, Los Angeles, Hollywood
- Related Publication
- Mydans, Carl. Carl Mydans, Photojournalist
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Photography
- Carl Mydans
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1303308
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-e4dc-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
