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Boys washing their feet in a back porch sink at the Lark Ellen Home for Boys, Sawtelle (Los Angeles), 1924

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Title: Boys washing their feet in a back porch sink at the Lark Ellen Home for Boys, Sawtelle (Los Angeles), 1924
Date Created and/or Issued: May 1924
1924-05
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Related to the article This photograph appears with the article: "Citizens in the Making. Lark Ellen Home Teaches Boys How to Become Useful Members of Society Despite Handicaps." 18 May 1924: A1
Photograph of 3 boys washing their feet in a sink recessed into the floor of the back porch of the Lark Ellen Home for Boys, with 6 boys standing on either side.
The Lark Ellen Home for Boys was listed at 339 Louisiana Ave. in the 1923 Santa Monica City Directory listing for Edith Yeomans, the resident superintendent of the home.
Text from negative sleeve: Lark Ellen Home for Boys
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5470
ark:/21198/zz002cvh7q
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Sawtelle (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Orphans--California--Los Angeles
Lark Ellen Home for Boys (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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