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Title
School ground broken
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
The ground breaking ceremony was for the San Fernando Valley Academy located at 17601 Lassen Street in Northridge.
Photograph caption dated June 15, 1955 reads, "Ground is broken today for $120,000 Seventh-Day Adventist elementary school at Lassen and White Oak streets, Northridge, following ceremony by church dignitaries. From left, in addition to children, are Dr. Vernon Foster, vice chairman, Valley parochial school board, Russell L. Sellers, building consultant; John Knipschild, Southern California Conference secretary, and William Brown, building committee chairman."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00129220
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d034_f19_i2
CARL0005462374
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/59993
Subject
San Fernando Valley Academy (Northridge, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Ground breaking ceremonies--California--Northridge (Los Angeles)
Men--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
Shovels--California--Los Angeles
Flags--United States
Northridge (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960

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