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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated October 5, 1955 reads, "Any time ladies can squeeze out another buck or two by making their clothes, they'll do it. A class in dress making and tailoring conducted each Thursday at Sylmar Community Building finds in process of fitting a pattern to Mrs. Eva Lena De Lazzer of Sylmar, Mrs. Bertha Caputi, left, clothing instructor for the adult education class at San Fernando High School."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Dressmaking--California--Los Angeles Dressmaking--Study and teaching--California--Los Angeles Dressmaking--California--Los Angeles--Students Dressmaking--Patterns Women--California--Los Angeles Sylmar (Los Angeles, Calif.) Group portraits Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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