Construction engineer Maurice J. Shannon looks for a job on Sunset Boulevard
date: label: Date made
content: 1939-07
label: Date made
content: 1939
name: label: photographer
content: Mydans, Carl
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles, Hollywood
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
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content: Carl Mydans
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Mydans, Carl. Carl Mydans, Photojournalist
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0228.055
label: accession number
content: 2005.0228
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0228.055
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30 in x 20 in; 76.2 cm x 50.8 cm