Night school pupils Mildred Maretick and Douglas Tuck study geometry, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Night school pupils Mildred Maretick and Douglas Tuck study geometry, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

February 1936

Date

1936-02

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

More than 16,000 adult men and women in Los Angeles are taking adult classes on everything from landscaping, interior decorating, cooking, sketching, knitting, and learning a second language.
Mildred and Douglas both hold one end of a book, Douglas looking intently at the page while Mildred watches his face.
Photograph appears with the article, "Whole Families Enroll in City Night Schools," Los Angeles Times, 07 Feb 1936: A1.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Morris Maretick, 24 years of age, seems to have arrived at the solution to this geometry theorem and wants to turn the page before Douglas Tuck, 64, also a pupil at Berendo Night High School, is ready.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Morris Martick Douglas Tuck
Text from negative sleeve: 3594 - I.W. Barnett Irene Cunningham Mrs. Marnie Dean Mr. Warner Antonson Jerry Lee Michero Miss Mary Sato Miss Lucille Stafford Mrs Ann Smith Mrs Morris Maretick Douglas Tuck Robert Brayman Miss Gaillard Wardwick (Berdiero Hi School - Adult classes) 2/4/36 [stamped:] Feb 11 1936

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Maretick, Mildred, 1912-2003
Tuck, Douglas, 1872-1938

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Teachers--California--Los Angeles
Adult education--California--Los Angeles
Older people--California--Los Angeles
Students--American--California--Los Angeles
Books