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Title supplied by cataloger. Swedish natives, Mary Johansson and sister Brittlise Pettersson had moved to the United States in the early 1950s. After living in Wisconsin for a year, they moved to the San Fernando Valley, where Mary began working as a maternity nurse at San Fernando Hospital and Britt was hired at the Bit of Sweden restaurant. The newspaper article highlighted the reunion with their parents, who had just arrived to the United States. Photograph caption dated August 6, 1959 reads, "Measures prescription. Mrs. Mary Johansson, specialized maternity nurse at San Fernando Hospital, measures prescribed medication for patient. In Sweden as "midwife," highly specialized obstetrical nurse, she delivered more than 7,000 babies without physician's assistance."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Immigrants--California--Los Angeles Swedish Americans--California--Los Angeles Nurses--California--Los Angeles San Fernando Valley (Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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