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Title
Rancho Los Amigos Hospital
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1952
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Artist's drawing of the $1,200,000 post-acute polio unit of Rancho Los Amigos Hospital, Downey. The structure, to be completed in 1953, will provide for the care of some 200 polio patients. Photo date: August 14, 1952. Adrian Wilson and Paul R. Williams were architects, The Baruch Corp., contractor.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00047235
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9680.
CARL0000050797
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16790
Subject
Rancho Los Amigos Hospital
Hospitals--California--Downey
Architectural plans
Poliomyelitis
Downey (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Williams, Paul R.,1894-1980
Wilson, Adrian
Baruch Corp

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