Woman talks to truant girls standing outside a downtown drug store, Los Angeles, March 1946

Title: Woman talks to truant girls standing outside a downtown drug store, Los Angeles, March 1946
Date Created: March 1946
Date: 1946-03
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Woman talks to a group of girls skipping school standing outside of a drug store in downtown Los Angeles. The truancy problem prompted the 10th District Congress of Parents and Teachers to recommend an expansion of the truancy detail, which would include increasing personnel in outlying portions of the district as well as on beaches
Caption: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: L.A. Truancy
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Truancy Detail LA; Mrs. Mallie Kerr

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Girls--California--Los Angeles
Lifestyle
School attendance--California--Los Angeles
Teenagers

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz00280fkg
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