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Title
Patient on a stretcher being put into a medical airplane while six nurses and a doctor stand beside the craft, ca.1933
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1933
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a patient on a stretcher being put into a medical airplane while six nurses and a doctor stand beside the craft, ca.1933. An automobile with the sign "Invalid coach" parks beside a small plane. Two men lift a patient on a stretcher through the plane door, while several nurses and a doctor stand by with their equipment. On the ground, two suitcases full of medical supplies stand open. Plane is numbered NC-48-M. In the background are several utility poles.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m13001
USC-2-1-1-13153 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-43470
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13001
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-43470.jpg
Subject
Aeronautics
Airplanes
Medical profession
Nurses
Transportation--Air--Airplanes
Airport features
Time Period
circa 1933
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
43470 [Accession number]
84-1-705 [Microfiche number]
CHS-43470 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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