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Title
United States Veteran's Bureau Hospital, San Fernando
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1926
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Original print is torn along lower left side.; Title supplied by cataloger.
The United States Veteran's Bureau Hospital, located at 13000 Sayre Street in Sylmar was the first Veteran's Bureau hospital to be constructed on the Pacific Coast. It consisted of twenty buildings costing approximately $1,500,000 and had one of the finest tubercular institutions in the world. Upon completion, it could accommodated 232 beds, and in case of an emergency, could handle 1,000 cases. The American Legion medical committee headed by Dr. Browning, assisted the Veteran's Bureau in drawing the plans and superintending the work. The hospital stood until the earthquake on Feb. 9, 1971, when it collapsed. The site is now a tree-shaded park with a view of Pacoima Canyon and a plaque memorializing the quake's 65 dead.
View shows the recreation building of Veteran's Hospital atop the hills above San Fernando. Photograph dated April 2, 1926.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;16 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00096177
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 100.
CARL0005062881
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33937
Subject
Veterans Administration Hospital (San Fernando, Calif.)
Hospital buildings--California--Sylmar (Los Angeles)
Hospitals--California--Sylmar (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--Sylmar (Los Angeles)
Mountains--California, Southern
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
Sylmar (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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