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Title
Backyard pool turned into swim 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
1948
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
Photograph article dated June 19, 1948 partially reads, "A backyard pool at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Bradbury Jr., 1719 N. Edison blvd., Burbank, has been turned into a swimming school for neighborhood children. Mrs. Bradbury holds a certificate she received following the completion of a course in life saving. She has taught her two children, Jan 10, and Edward, 5, how to swim and now is tutoring their friends." Pictured are Mrs. Edward Bradbury Jr. and neighborhood children.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00126537
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d031_f32_i16
CARL0005434810
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/58122
Subject
Swimming for children--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Swimming coaches--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Swimming pools--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Swimming--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Swimmers--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Backyards--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Children--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Women--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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