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Title
Mess Hall in Soldier's Home in West Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued
1929
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Group portrait of men and women at the Soldiers' Home (formally called the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers) in Sawtelle, West Los Angeles (location called Santa Monica when first established). View of the dining hall, showing dining table.
Title transcribed from note on verso. "Mess Hall. 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)
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : print ; sheet 9 x 14 cm
Identifier
photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20174
Subject
Dining rooms
Soldiers homes
Veterans--California
Photographs. (aat)
Place
West Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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