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.
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.
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.
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.
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.