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Title: "Pecha" a seeing eye guide dog
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940
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: "Pecha" a seeing eye-guide dog, accompanies his master, David Strilow, a totally blind basket maker at the California Industrial Workshp for the Blind, wherever he goes. Here he is "sitting in" on the piano lessons being given Strilow and his partially sighted wife, by Mrs. Roxana Byers, a Southern California WPA Music Project teacher. Mrs. Byers is one of a large corps of WPA music teachers, who are making life a little brighter for the blind and otherwise afflicted underpriveleged in Southern California. Photo dated: July 15, 1940.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00054529
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 4995.
CARL0000061936
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22417
Subject: Guide dogs--California--Los Angeles
Blind--California--Los Angeles
German shepherd dog
Workshops
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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