- City:
- El Monte, CA
- Site Type:
- Tree Planting, Forestry and Agriculture
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Completed:
- 1935
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
In 1935, the Public Works Administration (PWA) conducted tree surgery at the Department of Subsistence Homesteads’ “rurban homes” in El Monte, CA.
Four photographs depict tree surgeons at work, including with “a rather extreme effort to reclaim a tree by gouging out a large cavity, swabbing out with creosote and refilling with concrete held in with wire mesh.”
Source notes
Pasadena Museum Of History (descriptions in a WPA official's photo album)
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on December 16, 2013.
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