People always surprised - the youngsters are happy
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Brich, George
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
Photograph was edited for publication purposes Pictured is Horace Stinson, principal of the Sven Lokrantz Elementary School in Reseda. The four-month-old, $804,000 school is listed officially as the newest of the Los Angeles city school system's six elementary schools for physically handicapped. It was constructed in the shape of a large wheel with the classrooms, auditoriums and therapy facilities extending from the hub-like spokes. Sven Lokrantz has 134 physically handicapped pupils enrolled, including 66 with cerebral palsy, six post-polio, five hemophiliacs, eight with congenital heart disease, two with muscular dystrophy, and others with arthritis, epilepsy, brittle bones among others. Photograph dated January 22, 1962.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Sven Lokrantz Elementary School (Los Angeles, Calif.) Children with disabilities--Education--California--Los Angeles Students with disabilities--California--Los Angeles--Services for Elementary school principals--California--Los Angeles Elementary schools--California--Los Angeles Schools--California--Reseda (Los Angeles) Men--California--Los Angeles Reseda (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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