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Survivors of the fire that destroyed the Hope Development School for mentally disabled girls in Playa del Rey, Los Angeles, 1924

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Title: Survivors of the fire that destroyed the Hope Development School for mentally disabled girls in Playa del Rey, Los Angeles, 1924
Date Created and/or Issued: June 1924
1924-06
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Group portrait of nine girls who escaped from the Hope Development School as it burned down, posing for a group portrait on a porch swing with a care taker.
Handwritten on negative: Survivors
Text from negative sleeve: Hope Development Home Inquest.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10551
ark:/21198/zz002hbjbp
Subject: Mentally disabled children--Health & welfare--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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