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Title: Patient's operation televised
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1951
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: Photograph caption dated December 1, 1951 reads, "This is a photo of the television screen as seen by the doctors while the operation was being performed. The operation was the removal of a thyroid gland. Viewers said the picture was so realistic they felt as though they were at the surgeon's side." This operation took place at General Hospital in Boyle Heights.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00046541
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 102.
CARL0005061432
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22912
Subject: Thyroid gland--Surgery--California--Los Angeles
Thyroidectomy--California--Los Angeles
Surgery--California--Los Angeles
Television--California--Los Angeles
Televisions
Live television programs--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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