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Title
El Retiro School
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1955
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes
El Retiro School for Girls was a boarding school for girls who were wards of the Los Angeles County court system. It opened in 1919 and closed in 1961.The school was located at Polk Street and Borden Avenue, now a part of the Sylmar Recreation Center.
Photograph caption dated July 12, 1955 reads "Jane Adams cottage. Another type of residence for El Retiro girls, individual rooms border a center courtyard."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00141623
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d050_f15_i12
CARL0005733277
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/70449
Subject
El Retiro School for Girls (Sylmar, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Girls--California--Los Angeles
Boarding schools--California--Los Angeles
Schools--California--Los Angeles
School buildings--California--Los Angeles
Trees--California--Los Angeles
Lawns--California--Los Angeles
Tables--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Sylmar (Los Angeles)
Sylmar (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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