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Inventory of the State Relief Administration Records

F3448

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Series Descriptions

Box-folder F3448:1-15a

Administrator's Office, 1933-1941 Series 1.

Creator: California. State Relief Administration.

Physical Description: 17 file folders

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by date of report.

Series Scope and Content Summary

These records include a review of activities, 1933-1935, a report on California unemployment relief, 1936, a report on agricultural migratory laborers in San Joaquin Valley, 1937, a resume of state participation in unemployment relief, 1938, three volumes of monthly reports, 1936-1939,a report to Governor's Commission on Reemployment, 1939, report to Governor's Council, 1940, and the SRA Manual, chapter 1, Rules of Eligibility and Standards for Assistance, 1941.

Access Note

Records are open for research.

Box-folder F3448:16-24

Division of Statistics and Audits, 1933-1941 Series 2.

Creator: California. State Relief Administration.

Physical Description: 9 file folders

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by date of report.

Series Scope and Content Summary

These records include statistical tables relating to relief in California, 1933-34,an unemployment relief bulletin, 1933-1935, a summary of replies to SRA on the subject of migratory labor, four volumes of weekly bulletins from Los Angeles and San Francisco, 1939-1941, a report on the problem of interstate migration as it affected the SRA, 1940, and a comparison of rents paid by SRA cases with maximum SRA rent allowances, 1941.

Access Note

Records are open for research.

Box-folder F3448:25-41

Division of Social and County Administration, 1933-1942 Series 3.

Creator: California. State Relief Administration.

Physical Description: 12 file folders

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by date of report.

Series Scope and Content Summary

These records include nutrition and dietary data, 1933-1935, a study of Riverside County Social Service, 1935, a report on transient men and camps, 1935, the Manual of the Social Service Division, 1936, county office procedure forms, 1939, a social case work training syllabus, and the organization chart of the State Department of Social Welfare, 1942.

Access Note

Records are open for research.

Box-folder F3448:42-52

Field Service Division, 1934-1940 Series 4.

Creator: California. State Relief Administration.

Physical Description: 11 file folders

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by date of report.

Series Scope and Content Summary

These records include a summary of unemployment relief in Orange County, 1934-1936, a fact sheet on the proposed SRA work relief programs, 1939, a report on public welfare in California, 1939, and reorganization plans for SRA administration in San Francisco County, 1940.

Access Note

Records are open for research.

Box-folder F3448:53-56

Bureau of Community Relations, 1939-1940 Series 5.

Physical Description: 4 file folders

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by date of report.

Series Scope and Content Summary

These records include a handbook of child welfare service, 1939, a report on children on relief, 1939, a report on children on relief, and questions and answers on the Governor's Reemployment Program, 1940.

Access Note

Records are open for research.

Box-folder F3448:57-73a

Accounting Division, 1936-1940 Series 6.

Creator: California. State Relief Administration.

Physical Description: 17 file folders

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by date of report.

Series Scope and Content Summary

These records include 4 volumes of weekly bulletins from San Francisco, 1936-1939, budgets, 1937-1941, and budget of proposed expenditures, 1940.

Access Note

Records are open for research.

Box-folder F3448:74-79

Division of Personnel, 1938-1941 Series 7.

Creator: California. State Relief Administration.

Physical Description: 5 file folders

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by date of report.

Series Scope and Content Summary

These records include a performance report handbook, 1938, a directory of personnel, 1939, an outline for training, 1940, and rules and regulations for personnel standards and appeals, 1940-1941.

Access Note

Records are open for research.

Box-folder F3448:79a

Division of Planning and Research, 1940 Series 8.

Creator: California. State Relief Administration.

Physical Description: 1 file folder

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by date of report.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This record is a summary of the findings of the California Youth Survey, 1940.

Access Note

Record is open for research.

Box-folder F3448:80-84

Bureau of Social and Administrative Audits, 1940 Series 9.

Creator: California. State Relief Administration.

Physical Description: 5 file folders

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by date of report.

Series Scope and Content Summary

These records include an intake eligibility report for Los Angeles County, 1940, a survey of rejections and closed cases for San Diego County, 1940, a list of eligibility and investigation processes for San Diego County, 1940, and a bibliography.

Access Note

Records are open for research.

Box-folder F3448:85-94

Division of Research and Surveys, 1934-1940 Series 10.

Creator: California. State Relief Administration.

Physical Description: 10 file folders

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by date of report.

Series Scope and Content Summary

These records include a survey of economic trends in California, 1934, a survey of population trends in California, 1934, monthly bulletins, 1935, a survey of agricultural requirements in California counties, 1935, and cost statements of California SRA by program and function, 1940.

Access Note

Records are open for research.

Box-folder F3448:95-135

Division of Special Surveys and Studies, 1935-1941 Series 11.

Creator: California. State Relief Administration.

Physical Description: 41 file folders

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by date of report.

Series Scope and Content Summary

These records include a Sacramento depression settlement survey, 1935, a report on Italians in San Francisco: their adjustment and acculturation, 1935, a report on transients in California, with photos, 1936, a report on migratory labor in California, with photos, 1936, a national unemployment census, 1938, a study of unemployment relief in California, 1939, excerpts from the H. Dewey Anderson address to the Legislative Congress in Sacramento, March 11, 1939,a summary of activities of the SRA operating in Los Angeles County during the period of the reorganization program, 1940, a report on county medical facilities and the Medical Health Program, 1940, a list of SRA expenditures and obligations, 1940, a report on relief standards and migration, 1940, monthly statistical summaries, 1940, a report to the California delegation appointed to draft program on migrant program, 1940, and an estimated effect on county expenditures for indigent and unemployment relief, 1941.

Access Note

Records are open for research.

Box-folder F3448:136-149

Bureau of Commodity Distibution, 1935-1940 Series 12.

Creator: California. State Relief Administration.

Physical Description: 14 file folders

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by date of report.

Series Scope and Content Summary

These records include a report on surplus commodity distribution, 1933-1935, statistics of surplus commodities, 1935, statistics on food conservation, 1936, semi-annual reports on commodity distribution, 1935-1940, a survey of the school lunch program in California, 1940, a survey of the school lunch program in northern California, 1941, a survey of stamp plan operation, 1941, a survey of Bureau of Surplus Commodities, 1941, and a Manual of Operations for Stamp Plan in Los Angeles County - School Lunch and Direct Distribution Field Kit, 1939-1940.

Access Note

Records are open for research.

Box-folder F3448:150-159

Bureau of Resident Projects - Camp Operations Department, 1935-1940 Series 13.

Physical Description: 10 file folders

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by date of report.

Series Scope and Content Summary

These records include CCC instructions, suggestions, questions and answers, 1935-1936, CCC regulations, 1937, CCC enrollment in California, 1937 & 1940, nutrition regulations and instructions, 1935-1937, a list of WPA employees checking out of camps owing board, 1940, a report on the resident project of the SRA 1940, and the resident project pamphlet - Facts about a Worthwhile Service to California's Single Men, 1940.

Access Note

Records are open for research.

Box-folder F4338:160-165

Transient Division, 1935-1940 Series 14.

Creator: California. State Relief Administration.

Physical Description: 6 file folders

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by date of report.

Series Scope and Content Summary

These records include a study of transients and homeless in California, 1935, California Training Service's Progress and Methods of Approach (contains CYCLORAMA: an Investigator's Impression of Transient America), 1935, a public statement regarding transient relief, 1939, preliminary reports on the transient program, 1939, and a report to administrator on Bureau of Resident Projects, 1940.

Access Note

Records are open for research.

Box-folder F3448:166-177

Bureau of Self-Help - Division of Self-Help Cooperatives, 1935-1939 Series 15.

Creator: California. State Relief Administration.

Physical Description: 12 file folders

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by date of report.

Series Scope and Content Summary

These records include semi-annual reports, 1935, annual reports, 1935-1936, a summary of a proposed plan for self-help cooperatives, 1936, a prospectus, 1936, final reports of plans and estimates of self-help cooperative projects nos. 6859, 8238, 1937-1938, a report on self-help cooperatives in California, 1938, a study on cooperatives, 1938, and administrative study, 1939.

Access Note

Records are open for research.

Box-folder F3448:177a

Division of Operations, 1938 Series 16.

Creator: California. State Relief Administration.

Physical Description: 1 file folder

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by date of report.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This record is the Manual of Correspondence Procedure, 1938.

Access Note

Record is open for research.

Series Descriptions

Administrator's Office, 1933-1941

Division of Statistics and Audits, 1933-1941

Division of Social and County Administration, 1933-1942

Field Service Division, 1934-1940

Bureau of Community Relations, 1939-1940

Accounting Division, 1936-1940

Division of Personnel, 1938-1941

Division of Planning and Research, 1940

Bureau of Social and Administrative Audits, 1940

Division of Research and Surveys, 1934-1940

Division of Special Surveys and Studies, 1935-1941

Bureau of Commodity Distibution, 1935-1940

Bureau of Resident Projects - Camp Operations Department, 1935-1940

Transient Division, 1935-1940

Bureau of Self-Help - Division of Self-Help Cooperatives, 1935-1939

Division of Operations, 1938