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Title: Visually handicapped boy, Cahuenga Branch
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1958
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: A visually handicapped boy sits with a book at the Cahuenga Branch Library. The young boy was part of a group of 9 children, averaging 4 1/2 to 5 years of age, from the Nursery School for Visually Handicapped Children. Rhyllis Weisjohn, a librarian at the branch helped find books for the children and later read the group a story of "Ask Mr. Bear". The library, located at 4591 Santa Monica Boulevard, was built with a $35,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie. Photo dated: October 22, 1958.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00038714
Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Collection
LAPL_IPC_b053_f4
CARL0000041620
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/98426
Subject: Los Angeles Public Library.--Cahuenga Branch
Branch libraries--California--Los Angeles
Carnegie libraries--California--Los Angeles

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