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Title: Iron lungs enroute to Rancho Los Amigos
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: This is the specially-equipped baggage car of Southern Pacific Starlight train in which two polio patients in iron lungs were brought here from San Jose on August 31, 1954. The victims are Mrs. Bettey Sohm, 45 (2) and Delores Gomes,18 (2). A doctor, two nurses' aides and an air-conditioning expert accompanied them on the trip, enroute to Rancho Los Amigos Hospital.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00055409
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2262.
CARL0000057429
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/19833
Subject: Sohm, Bettey
Gomes, Delores
Rancho Los Amigos Hospital
Southern Pacific Company
Hospitals--California--Downey
Children--California--Downey
Poliomyelitis
Iron lung
Railroad trains
Downey (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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