Framed or unframed, desk size to sofa size, printed by us in Arizona and Alabama since Explore now. Shorpy is funded by you. Patreon contributors get an ad-free experience. Learn more. Green Lighting Where is It? May San Diego. This man came out to California from Oklahoma 10 years ago. He has been an agricultural worker and had lived in various FSA camps.
Now employed as a painter at Consolidated Aircraft. View full size. Ready to Seize Plane Plant. June 7, The strike at the North American Aviation plant, in which Army troops dispersed union activists and took over an essential American defense facility, is one of the landmark events in Los Angeles history. I attach a photo of him from a year later, from There are two light sources evident in the photo, as best evidenced by the two shadows of the floor lamp.
The shadow on the side wall is considerably off-axis from the camera angle, coming from a good distance to the right. That's the flash unit being held by the man reflected in the window. The other shadow, on the wall behind Dad, is from a light source on a very close axis to that of the camera, so close that it has to be from a flash unit mounted on the camera itself, the bulb and reflector a few inches higher than and very slightly to the left of the camera lens.
Therefore, the guy in the window reflection is an assistant, not the photographer. Plus window guy would have to have third hand to click a camera shutter, since one is holding the flash and the other the white thing. The newspaper headline screams about a labor union defying FDR against striking at a defense plant. I wondered: which plant, which union, and what happened? This document listed all of the strikes from By June 9th, FDR ordered the Army to take control of the plant and the workers returned the next day.
A settlement on wages was achieved by July 1st. While the photographer futilely tries to hide from his reflection in the window, Mom and Dad have been placed in their traditional roles. Mom sits on the couch holding baby, while Dad sits to opposite side and pretends to be interested in newspaper contents. A nice Kadette radio in this picture. Model K from Attached photo from Lynn Toppo and Radioattic. Join our mailing list:. Photos submitted by Shorpy members! Member Blog Member Gallery.
