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Title: Damage caused to hospital by Long Beach earthquake
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated March 11, 1933 reads, "This photo shows a wing of Seaside Hospital, Long Beach, with the northwest wall ripped away by the temblors. Mrs. Elanor Boyton was giving birth to a baby girl when the wall fell. Dr. Sterling Pillsbury saved mother and child. At the same time Dr. F. C. Hertzog pushed an operating table out of danger and completed a delicate operation on little Larry Johnson."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084130
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 4630
CARL0002884215
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25949
Subject: Seaside Hospital (Long Beach, Calif.)
Long Beach Earthquake, 1933
Earthquakes--California, Southern
Earthquake damage--California--Long Beach
Hospitals--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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