Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
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34 images. Compton, California layout, 22 August 1952. Compton Municipal Plunge Vapor Recovery Systems Company James Gilmore (test engineer for Vapor Recovery Company) Las Campanas Sanitarium Dairs Glass Company Charles W. Bursch Elementary School Mrs. Ardella B. Tibby (superintendent of elementary schools) Mrs. Beatrice Le Grand (principal) Victory Park Our Lady of Victory Church Father James Pierre (assistant pastor) Whaley Junior High School Cressey Park Rosecrans Bridge over Los Angeles River. Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Lapp. Date: 1952-08-22. Reporter: Reay. Assignment: Compton. 7/8/44: Compton Municipal Plunge. 31: At Vapor Recovery Systems Company (oil well valves, tank gages, etc.) James Gilmore, test engineer George E. Denny, assist. gen. mgr. 42: George E. Denny James Gilmore. 5/6: Las Campanas Sanitarium (Do not say people are patients). 9/10: Dairs Glass Co. making 5-gal. bottom for Arrowhead Water Co. l. to r., 47/48: At Charles W. Bursch Elementary School Mrs. Ardella B. Tibby, supt. of elementary schools and Mrs. Beatrice Le Grand, principal. 42: same with position reversed. 48: Mrs. Le Grande Mrs. Tibby. 21/22: In Victory Park Joanne Stellenberg, 6 Carol Lheureux, 6 Linda Voge, 9 Carol Voge, 11. 13/14: group in Victory Park Las Campanas Sanitarium. 39: O.W. Coffin and South Sloan Ave. in back. 40/41: Sue Harford, 12 Patti Harford, 11 Melanie Harford, 6 South Sloan Ave in back. 3/4: Our Lady of Victory Father James Pierre, assistant pastor. 2/33: Mrs. Veda Stolt I.A. Klein E.C. Wright Assembly of desks in classroom of Whaley Jr. High being washed for school opening. 28/34: At Whaley School. Mrs. Jack Slaybaugh Mrs. Orrin Walling Mrs. Alipio Tomassacci, mothers look it over. 29: Residence St. South Sloan Avenue. 25/26: Cressey Park. 19/20: Sherrill Lee Allen, 6 Mary Jane Allen, 4 on slide in Cressey Park. 45/46: New Rosecrans bridge over L.A. River and riding trail to ocean 10 miles away Zal Crooks Earl Wedgwoth. 1: Waley School being rushed. Jr. hi admissions bldg".
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image
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34 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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