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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated March 27, 1961 partially reads, "Mrs. Fleta Robertson begins her Sunday School lessons with a pipe cleaner. Then, with skilled hands, she applies a damp, velvety-textured modeling clay, creating tiny and colorful figures of Biblical characters. She spends her evenings after a day's work in an office making the figures for her class of three-year-olds at the Little Brown Church in the Valley, 4418 Coldwater Canyon Blvd., North Hollywood." Photograph caption reads, "Mrs. Fleta Robertson prepares Sunday lesson. North Hollywood teacher's clay figures illustrate story."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Little Brown Church in the Valley (Los Angeles, Calif.) Sunday school teachers--California--Los Angeles Clay figurines--California--Los Angeles Children--Biblical teaching Women--California--Los Angeles Church buildings--California--North Hollywood (Los Angeles) North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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