1930s Depression Data (California) Collection

Title: 1930s Depression Data (California) Collection

Dates: 1933-1939

Collection Number: MS.006

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Extent: 6 li in, 13 cm.

Repository: San Diego Public Library

Abstract: The impact of the "Great Depression" of the 1930s on the people in the state of California is presented by excerpted information from the main state agency created to assist county efforts to furnish aid through food distribution, monetary payments, and jobs. Data on counties and departmental activities starts from 1933, the creation of the State Emergency Relief Administration (SERA), through the transfer of most of its function to the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1939.

Language of Material: English

Collection is open for research.

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The impact of the "Great Depression" of the 1930s on the people in the state of California is presented by excerpted information from the main state agency created to assist county efforts to furnish aid through food distribution, monetary payments, and jobs. Data on counties and departmental activities starts from 1933, the creation of the State Emergency Relief Administration (SERA), through the transfer of most of its function to the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1939. The collection includes weekly bulletins, semi-annual reports and tables with statistical information in tabular form on distribution to California counties based upon a variety of activities, demographics, relief cases loads for residents, transients, and aliens. Maps included district offices and distribution centers. Suggested menus for single men and single women who cooked for themselves or did little cooking became part of the information distributed by SERA. The amount of food produced by food type and statistics on commodity distribution by county became part of the records of the agency. A final report summarized the major activities of the agency with photographs illustrating some of those activities.