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Title: Whittier College
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: Exterior view of Founder's Hall, Whittier College, with a lawn and trees in the foreground. This was the college's original building. In 1887, the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) established the town of Whittier and the Whittier Academy. Over time the academy evolved into Whittier College, which was chartered by the State of California in 1901 with a student body of 25.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00064860
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 13 (2110) 4x5
CARL0000068689
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2536
Subject: Whittier College (Whittier, Calif.)
Universities and colleges--California--Whittier
Lawns--California--Whittier
Whittier (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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