"Report on an Experiment Made in Los Angeles in the Summer of 1917 for the Americanization of Foreign-born Women,"
Entry/Object ID
2009.320.1.1
Description
"Report on an Experiment Made in Los Angeles in the Summer of 1917 for the Americanization of Foreign-born Women," by the State Commission of Immigration and Housing of California (Sacramento: California State Printing Office,) 1917. The work generated from a Home Teacher Act, mandating new approaches to immigrant education and it concerns the creation of Americanization centers taught by graduates of the state Normal School at Los Angeles. Students included Mexicans, Armenians, Japanese, Molokan Russians, and American Indians and classes concerned infant care and sanitation. With much creasing, stains, soiling and edge rubbing, the condition is fair.
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California. Department of Public Health. Bureau of Child Hygiene, United States. Department of Labor. Children's Bureau.
