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

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

Feb-36

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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.

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.

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 Snaretick Douglas Tuck Robert Brayman Miss Gaillard Wardwick (Berdiero Hi School - Adult classes) 2/4/36 [stamped:] Feb 11 1936

Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Morris Martick Douglas Tuck

Adult education--California--Los Angeles

Older people--California--Los Angeles

Students--American--California--Los Angeles

Teachers--California--Los Angeles

Books

Tuck, Douglas, 1872-1938

Maretick, Mildred, 1912-2003

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