Lena Pope Home swimming group getting off Red Cross Motor Corps bus

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20036589

Description

Check-Off -- Fifty Lena Pope Home boys pile off a Red Cross Motor Corps bus at Forest Park pool where they took their first swimming lessons Tuesday. They are pictured here. Checking them off the bus are, left to right, Mrs. Dora Sylvester, Red Cross swimming instructor, and Misses Doris Fern Hamm and Doris Jean Bridgess, Motor Corps drivers. These women are standing on the ground near the bus door. Some boys are standing on the bus door step, some peering out of bus windows. Published in The Fort Worth Star-Telegram morning edition, July 3, 1946.

Archival Date

1946-07-02

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-441

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Swimming; Leisure; Parks; Boys; Sylvester, Dora (Mrs.); Hamm, Doris Fern (Mrs.); Bridgess, Doris, Jean; Buses; Bus drivers; Lena Pope Home Incorporation; Forest Park (Fort Worth, Tex.)