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Title: Compton elementary school
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1951
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: The 6th grade at a Compton elementary school on April 6, 1951, presenta an entirely different atmosphere, with plenty of light and air and the latest visual teaching aids. The Compton elementary school system and the Compton Teachers' Club observe their 25th anniversary Wednesday. Singing star Janis Paige has been chosen honorary superintendent of schools for the day and will break ground for the new $440,000 Charles W. Burch School at Aprilla and 156th Streets.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00044757
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1845.
CARL0000048107
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14487
Subject: Paige, Janis
Schools--California--Compton
Building--California--Compton
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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