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Description
2 images. Traffic safety party at Wilson Elementary School, San Gabriel,15 May 1952. Frank Lloyd, San Gabriel Police Sergeant Clarita Gray, 11 ' Nemo, the Clown Richard Hendricks, 5. Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Mercurio. Reporter: Ostler. Assignment: Traffic safety party, San Gabriel. 158-159: In picture, l - r are San Gabriel Police Sergeant Frank Lloyd, Clarita Gray, 11, of the Wilson Elementary School 'Nemo the Clown' and Richard Hendricks, 5, of the Wilson Elementary High School. Occasion was a Traffic Safety party sponsored by the Alhambra Area Motor Car Dealers Association, held at the Wilson Elementary School, San Gabriel. Students were lectured in an entertaining and humorous fashion on safety. Nemo, the Clown, spoke to the youngsters on such subjects as talking to strangers on way to and from school, crossing the street, obeying traffic signals, and the correct way to ride a bicycle on the street. The safety program is currently being presented to all school children in the Alhambra area. More than 15,000 of them will have viewed the presentation at its close at the end of the month. Cooperating in the safety program are local law enforcement agencies and officials of the California State Highway Division".
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image
Format
2 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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