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Title
Here's a hefty one
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Siddon, Dave
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
1957
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
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 March 27, 1957 reads, "Russ Airth carries freshly shorn sheep away from shearing barn, ready to turn it loose on pasture. One hundred sheep were shorn. Sheep shearing school is typical of aid Pierce gets from outside groups."; See images #00135797 through #00135800 for all photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00135798
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d042_f29_i23
CARL0005618677
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/65768
Subject
Los Angeles Pierce College
Los Angeles Pierce College--Students
Community colleges--California--Woodland Hills (Los Angeles)
Community college students--California--Los Angeles
Sheep--Grooming--California--Los Angeles
Sheep-shearing--California--Los Angeles
Sheep--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Woodland Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Time Period
1951-1960

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