Lucille Stafford instructs night school students Mary Sato and Ann Smith, Los Angeles, 1936

Title

Lucille Stafford instructs night school students Mary Sato and Ann Smith, Los Angeles, 1936

Date

Feb-36

Description

Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Lucille applies a band to a hat with both hands and supplies strewn on the table around her while Ann watches and Mary leans over Lucille's shoulder.
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Whole Families Enroll in City Night Schools," Los Angeles Times, 07 Feb 1936: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: 3594 - J.W. Barnett Irene Cunningham Mrs. Marnie Dean Mr. Warner Autonson 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
Text from newspaper caption: "And the braid goes round and round and you tie it here," says Miss Lucille Stafford (center,) millinery instructor at Berendo Night High School. Her attentive pupils are Mary Sato and Ann Smith.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs Ann Smith Miss Lucille Stafford Miss Mary Sato

Subject

Adult education--California--Los Angeles
Students--American--California--Los Angeles
Millinery
Teachers--California--Los Angeles
Stafford, Lucille, b. 1890
Sato, Mary
Smith, Ann

Source

California Digital Library

Relation

https://thumbnails.calisphere.org/clip/150x150/ffa9b747b15c043fb462618362ae1b08

Type

image

References

https://ursus.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz002hmqpv

Citation

“Lucille Stafford instructs night school students Mary Sato and Ann Smith, Los Angeles, 1936,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed June 10, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/40776.

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