Group portrait of women who worked at the Soldiers' Home (formally called the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers) in Sawtelle, West Los Angeles, California (location called Santa Monica when first established). Identified on back of print as "mess hall" employees, but possibly nurses. Title devised from note on verso. Date transcribed from verso. "Mess Hall employees. Soldier's Home in West Los Angeles, 1929"--text, handwritten in pencil on verso. The Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, a domicile and hospital for Union veterans of the Civil War, opened west of Los Angeles in 1888 on land donated by real-estate developers. Senator John Jones of Santa Monica helped develop the facility. Barrett Villa Tract, a development of small plots later renamed Sawtelle, was established outside the south gate of the Soldiers’ Home. (- Source: "The Soldiers’ City: Sawtelle, California, 1897–1922" by Cheryl L. Wilkinson, Southern Calif. Quarterly, Vol. 95 No. 2, Summer 2013)
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1 photograph : print ; sheet 8.7 x 13.7 cm (postcard format)
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