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Title
First grade children building a Celotex house at Alexandria Avenue School
Creator
Visual Education Division
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of first grade children building a Celotex house at Alexandria Avenue School, [s.d.]. The small house can be seen in the middle of a classroom at center. Two young boys are putting the finishing touches on the roof while standing on wooden chairs. Two more children are hammering a wooden frame on the floor in the foreground, and still more can be seen working inside the hous. Windows are visible at right, and a coat room is visible at left. Photoprint reads: "photo by Visual Education Division, Los Angeles City School District".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m4681
USC-2-1-1-4778 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-44511
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4681
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-44511.jpg
Subject
Alexandria Avenue School
Los Angeles--Schools--Grammar--Intermediate--Classes--Classrooms
Schools
Building
Dwellings
Educational facilities
Place
Alexandria Avenue School
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
44511 [Accession number]
CHS-44511 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 84-1-729; unidentified no: 1470 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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