Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- California. State Relief Administration.
- Abstract:
- The State Emergency Relief Administration was created in 1933, and succeeded by the State Relief Administration in 1935. Both agencies were developed to alleviate certain conditions caused by the Great Depression. The records from both agencies include reports, statistics, surveys, operating procedures, budgets and bulletins. There is no correspondence included in these records.
- Extent:
- 5 cubic feet
- Language:
- English.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The records of the State Relief Administration (SRA) include reports, statistics, surveys, operating procedures, budgets and bulletins created or gathered by various divisions of the SRA and its predecessor, the State Emergency Relief Administration. There is no correspondence included in these records.
- Biographical / historical:
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The State Emergency Relief Administration (SERA) was created in 1933 as a provision of the Unemployment Bond Relief Act. In 1935, SERA was succeeded by the State Relief Administration (SRA). Both agencies were created to help alleviate certain conditions caused by the Great Depression, and their responsibilities included the distribution of state and federal funds for unemployment relief. The activities of the State Relief Administration frequently overlapped activities of other local, federal and even state agencies created for similar purposes. Consequently, the organization of the SRA was constantly changing and it is difficult to decisively state the the number or names of the agency's divisions at any given date. See Elsey Hurt, California State Government - an Outline of Its Administrative Organization, vol. 2, 1939, for more details.
- Acquisition information:
- These records were sent to the California State Archives after the State Relief Administration was disbanded in 1944.
- Physical location:
- California State Archives
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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1020 "O" StreetSacramento, CA 95814, US
- Contact:
- (916) 653-2246