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Title: Snow closes Acton school
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1958
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Original photograph has some water damage.
Photograph caption dated April 7, 1958 reads "School children wave goodby to their teacher Mrs. Goldie Dawson after Agua Dulce Elementary School in Acton was closed because of snowstorm. Nearly two inches of powdery snow covered grown (sic) in area. Snowstorms forced road crews to work overtime to keep hghways 6 and 99 open to traffic."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00121758
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d026_f4_i2
CARL0005385189
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/53184
Subject: Agua Dulce Elementary School (Acton, Calif.)
Women--California--Acton
Men--California--Acton
School children--California--Acton
Teachers--California--Acton
Elementary schools--California--Acton
Schools--California--Acton
School buildings--California--Acton
Snow--California--Acton
Snowmen--California--Acton
Acton (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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