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Title
Shadowscope at reading center
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Woods, Jon
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
1961
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
Photograph was edited for publication purposes; Title supplied by cataloger.
At the reading center in Van Nuys Junior High School, 13-year-old Frances Cacioppo, uses a 'Shadowscope,' a machine that casts light on a book to help students read at a steady pace. The reading center, one of only two in the Valley, is a pilot program that provides specially equipped classrooms, staffed with trained reading teachers to help students with reading deficiencies and also provides advanced reading programs for gifted children. Photograph dated June 26, 1961.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00125906
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d030_f35_i22
CARL0005428295
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/57524
Subject
Van Nuys Middle School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Van Nuys Middle School (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Students
Literacy--California--Los Angeles
Literacy programs--California--Los Angeles
Reading--California--Los Angeles
Reading--California--Los Angeles--Aids and devices
Middle school students--California--Los Angeles
Teenage girls--California--Los Angeles
Schools--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Middle schools--California--Los Angeles
Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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