Co-ed cowgirls to show skill in rodeo at Pierce College
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Valley Times Photo Collection
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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
The Clarence W. Pierce School of Agriculture is a two-year community college in Woodland Hills, California. It opened in September 1947, with 70 students and 18 faculty members and is part of the Los Angeles Community College District. The school's initial focus was crop cultivation and animal husbandry, and still retains a large swatch of open fields for hands-on working farm training. In 1956 the school was renamed Los Angeles Pierce College. Photograph caption dated May 7, 1957 reads, "Rope 'em cowgirl - Steer doesn't have chance against expert roping of this coed 'cowgirls' at Pierce Junior College in Woodland Hills. Girls are rehearsing for two-day national intercollegiate rodeo during eight annual Pierce College Roundup Friday through Sunday at the school. From left are Jackie De Witt, 19; Alison Redner, 19, roundup queen; Tina Rocco, 18; Sheila Engle, 21; Debbie Buffington, 18; Darlene Walters, 21, and Jan Peters, 19."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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