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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

"Dairy Farm, Self Help Association, Burbank/Los Angeles, 1936"


http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/i...0-e00a18066c61

I've never heard of the 'Self Help Association'.

Was this a WPA program?__

I don't believe there were any replies to this post from last year, but I now have a few more details.

For one: I didn't realize there was a stamp on the reverse of the photograph.


detail

So the program was part of the Resettlement Administration.
And much to my surprise, the photograph was taken by Dorothea Lange.

-here's some additional info:

"The self-help cooperative, Burbank, California. Organized August 1934. Now has seventy-six active members and is fairly successful.
Have applied to the Resettlement Administration for a loan. Have farm of one hundred eighty acres, and supply vegetables to members.
Also, the dairy yields 120 gallons of milk daily. Sixty-five cows."

A few more photographs.

picking up supplies. Burbank [1936]

https://www.loc.gov/item/fsa1998018347/PP/



unloading produce. Burbank [1936]

https://www.loc.gov/item/fsa1998018361/PP/

...both photos taken by Dorothea Lange.

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