Written on verso: "The Chalk Garden; Mar. '62." Photograph shows students from the San Jose State College Speech and Drama department performing on stage. The Chalk Garden is a play by Enid Bagnold that premiered in 1955 on Broadway. The play tells the story of Mrs. St. Maugham and her granddaughter Laurel, a disturbed child under Miss Madrigal's care. The setting of the play was inspired by Bagnold's own garden at North End House in Rottingdean, near Brighton, Sussex, the former home of Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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