Children waving from their schoolroom, Los Angeles County, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Children waving from their schoolroom, Los Angeles County, 1935

Date Created

November 1935

Date

1935-11

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph appears with the article, "Reasons Why Los Angeles Citizens Should Vote for School Bonds Tomorrow," Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov 1935: 8.
Dilapidated conditions of public schools are shown to voters to encourage them to support school bonds. The Federal government has proposed adding $10,139,000 if the bonds are approved in the election.
Dozens of children lean out of the windows of their tent schoolroom waving at the camera.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: The fourth grade at the Sixty-first-street school pleads: "Mr. Voter, please take us out of this tent!"
Text from negative sleeve: 2796 - 49 St School 52 + Main St School 61 + Figueroa School 11- 12-35 [stamped:] Nov [?] 1935
Handwritten on negative: 61 + Fig School 11-12-35

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Location

Los Angeles County (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Tents--California--Los Angeles County
Students--American--California--Los Angeles County
School bonds--California--Los Angeles
Schools--California--Los Angeles County
Children--California--Los Angeles County