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This photograph depicts an outdoors group portrait of the Girl Reserves at Lowell School in San Jose, California taken in 1925. Most of the girls are in their Girl Reserves uniforms. There is a woman dressed in dark clothes amidst the girls. On recto: "- Girl Reserves - Lowell School - 1925. - San Jose, Calif. Photo by Charles Ellis Johnson San Jose, Calif. 4 (illegible letter/symbol)". Stamped on verso: "Charles Ellis Johnson Tucker Studio - Porter Building San Jose, -- Calif". Bottom left corner is bent and a small piece at the bottom is missing. Photograph has two pinholes in each corner. In 1918 the YWCA of the USA organized the Girl Reserves to bring 12 to 18-year-olds into the national movement, with sailor-style uniforms and three-fingered salutes. From Fran Smith, "Breaking Ground:The Daring Women of the YWCA in the Santa Clara Valley, 1905-2005," (2005), p. 35. 1925 Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3
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