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Title
Campers learn secrets of replanting trees
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
Clear Creek Camp, about 4,000 feet high in the Angeles National Forest and 10 miles north of La Can~ada, has been owned and operated by the Los Angeles city schools since 1925. Perched atop a mountain overlooking Clear Creek canyon, the complex of two dormitories, lodge-museum, staff quarters and dining room-kitchens houses one sixth grade class each week throughout the school year.
Photograph caption dated August 3, 1955 reads, "Revive forest growth - Sue Cannady, Clear Creek camp counselor, holds two-year-old seedling while Cherry Young digs hole in Angeles Forest hillside for one of 50,000 trees Los Angeles city school youngsters have planted in area during 30-year camp program."; See images #00143017 through #00143019 for all photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00143018
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d052_f7_i7
CARL0005791759
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/71660
Subject
Clear Creek Outdoor Education Center (La Can~ada Flintridge, Calif.)
Camp sites, facilities, etc.--California--La Can~ada Flintridge
Campers (Persons)--California--La Can~ada Flintridge
Camp counselors--California--La Can~ada Flintridge
Camps--California--La Can~ada Flintridge
Elementary school teachers--California--La Can~ada Flintridge
School children--California--La Can~ada Flintridge
Tree planting--California--La Can~ada Flintridge
Reforestation--California--La Can~ada Flintridge
Women--California--La Can~ada Flintridge
Girls--California--La Can~ada Flintridge
Boys--California--La Can~ada Flintridge
Mountains--California, Southern
Angeles National Forest (Calif.)
La Can~ada (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Time Period
1951-1960

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