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Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes 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 October 29, 1964 reads, "Royalty on tour - Pierce College Homecoming Queen Jimmie Curry, second from left, and part of her court of princesses, from left, Kathy Whittemore, Mary Ann Meddock and Margie Ward, listen as Valley Times publisher Ben Reddick explains new wire procedure in the Valley Times city room, during a tour they took yesterday."
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Identifier
00135836 Valley Times Collection HCNVT_d042_f30_i29 CARL0005624418 http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/65883
Subject
Los Angeles Pierce College Los Angeles Pierce College--Students Valley Times (Firm) Valley Times (Firm)--Employees Community college students--California--Los Angeles Publishers and publishing--California--Los Angeles Newspaper employees--California--Los Angeles Newspaper buildings--California--Los Angeles Beauty contestants--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Valley Times Collection photographs Portrait photographs Group portraits
