Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. More than 16,000 adult men and women in Los Angeles are taking adult classes on everything from landscaping, interior decorating, cooking, sketching, knitting, and learning a second language. Mildred and Douglas both hold one end of a book, Douglas looking intently at the page while Mildred watches his face. Photograph appears with the article, "Whole Families Enroll in City Night Schools," Los Angeles Times, 07 Feb 1936: A1. Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Morris Maretick, 24 years of age, seems to have arrived at the solution to this geometry theorem and wants to turn the page before Douglas Tuck, 64, also a pupil at Berendo Night High School, is ready. Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Morris Martick Douglas Tuck Text from negative sleeve: 3594 - I.W. Barnett Irene Cunningham Mrs. Marnie Dean Mr. Warner Antonson Jerry Lee Michero Miss Mary Sato Miss Lucille Stafford Mrs Ann Smith Mrs Morris Maretick Douglas Tuck Robert Brayman Miss Gaillard Wardwick (Berdiero Hi School - Adult classes) 2/4/36 [stamped:] Feb 11 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12670 ark:/21198/zz002hmqk9
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Teachers--California--Los Angeles Adult education--California--Los Angeles Older people--California--Los Angeles Students--American--California--Los Angeles Books Maretick, Mildred, 1912-2003 Tuck, Douglas, 1872-1938
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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