Image / Woman talks to truant girls in downtown Los Angeles, March 1946

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Title: Woman talks to truant girls in downtown Los Angeles, March 1946
Date Created and/or Issued: March 1946
1946-03
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Woman talks to girls skipping school in downtown Los Angeles, picture is taken through a car window. The truancy problem prompted the 10th District Congress of Parents and Teachers to recommend an expansion of the truancy detail, which would include increasing personnel in outlying portions of the district as well as on beaches
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: [L.A. Truancy]
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Truancy Detail LA; Mrs. Mallie Kerr
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz00280fnh
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Girls--California--Los Angeles
Education
School attendance--California--Los Angeles
Teenagers
Legal
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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