W.P.A. Projects and San Francisco Scenes Photograph Album
1921-1939
Burton, Leo Rigel Taylor
SFP 2
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
mixed material
244 photographic prints: b&w ; mounted in album.
photographic prints
All requests for permission to publish from photographs must be submitted in writing to the Photo Curator. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.
In copyright.
Unbound album of black and white photographic prints taken by Leo Riegel Taylor Burton of work in Golden Gate Park in the 1930s, including jobs sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. The photographs depict engineers and surveyors in the office and in the field, as well as WPA workers laboring on projects including road building and landscaping. The end of the album consists of photos of Golden Gate Park in 1921. Some photos have names of the people handwritten in pen on the photograph. The majority of the photographs have handwritten descriptions in pencil.
Gift.
http://sflib1.sfpl.org/record=b1939296~S1
Photograph Albums Photographs
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs Parks--California--San Francisco. Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, Calif.)
United States. Works Progress Administration.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:216525
