Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Orphanages--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Exterior view of Church Home for Children buildings located in Highland Park. It was founded in 1913 by a deaconess of the Episcopal Church that provided a home for neglected and abandoned children.
Date:: [between 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: At center, Lorraine Lyon, employee at the Volunteers Home orphanage, stands behind a fruit basket. The basket sits in front of her atop a table. Lorraine smiles as she fixes the bow affixed to the basket's handle. Grapes, bananas, apples and other fruits sit in the basket.
Date:: December, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Children's Home Society of California is a non-profit child welfare agency founded in 1891. It became the first licensed child placement agency in California in 1911.
Date:: [1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: The camera pans down towards a seated Mrs. Valerie Lyon basting a turkey while children watch. Mrs. Lyon sits at right and in profile, facing left. In front of her at left, turkeys lie in a large roasting pan. Valerie Lyon holds onto the pan with one hand and bastes the turkeys with the other. Behind the roasting pan, 4 children stand together in a small group. They all point towards the turkey. The child nearest to camera looks directly at Mrs. Lyon. To the left of them, the kitchen's ranges stretch into the distance. A butcher block preparation table extends behind them at right.
Date:: December, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “Thanks giving Day Brings Hippiness[sic] and Turkey to Thousands in Southland,” Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 1935: 18.
Date:: November 29, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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