Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. The boys crouch before a work table covered with toy vehicles, figurines, and doll furniture, each of them holding something such as a miniature alligator, wagon, or car. The students of the Lafayette Junior High School have orchestrated a toy repair shop to distribute wagons, airplanes, boats, pianos, dolls and other toys to the children of Santa Fe Avenue School. Photograph appears with the article, "School Starts Repairing Toys," Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec 1938: A1. Text from newspaper caption: Here are some of the toys which are contributed and then reconditioned by the school children to give to pupils who otherwise would have no Christmas. Text from negative sleeve: 15174 - Toys Lafayette Jr Hi School TIMES PHOTO BY ANDREW H. ARNOTT 12-13-38 [stamped:] Dec 13 1938
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