El Retiro School tries with new methods to rehabilitate many unfortunate girls
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Valley Times Photo Collection
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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
El Retiro School for Girls was a boarding school for girls who were wards of the Los Angeles County court system. It opened in 1919 and closed in 1961. The school was located at Polk Street and Borden Avenue, now a part of the Sylmar Recreation Center. Photograph caption dated July 12, 1955 reads, "Reorganization discussed - Mrs. Dorothy Kirby, director of El Retiro, discusses experimental plans for girls' home with Don R. Sanson, probation director of juvenile placement for the Los Angeles County Probation Department."; See images #00142949 through #00142951 for all photos in this series.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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