Deca Lodwick was a high school teacher. She graduated from the State University of Iowa around 1902 and taught at Long Beach Polytechnic High School from at least 1912 to 1932, the year of her death. Group portrait of the senior class of Hollywood High School (?) with 12 students and one teacher, probably Deca Lodwick. There is one African American student (far left, third row). Hollywood High School opened in temporary quarters at the Masonic Temple on Highland Avenue, north of Hollywood Boulevard in 1903. Photographs caption: Miss Lodwick and Senior Class. Ethel Phoebe Bailey, Photographer. Written on back of photo: Hollywood High Schools-Teams & Classes #1. Miss Lodwick and Senior Class 1902? One Negro in a class of twelve- (Dr.) Leonard Stovall ? Credit: Security Pacific Nat'l Bank photo collection / L.A. Public Library.
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School children African American school children Hollywood High School (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) Lodwick, Deca, 1881 or 2-1932
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