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Title
San Jose Hospital
Date Created and/or Issued
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
circa 1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
Contributing Institution
San José Public Library, California Room
Collection
Historic Postcard Collection
Rights Information
The San Jose Public Library California Room can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any claims of the copyright holder. Permission to copy or publish any portion of San Jose Public Library California Room
Description
An architect's rendering of the addition of a rear annex to San Jose. Hospital. The original hospital building on the right facing Santa Clara Street opened in 1923 with ninety four beds. Annexes added to the rear of the original building in the 1950s and 1960s eventually brought the number of beds to more than 600. In 1996, the hospital was acquired by Hospital Corporation of America, which decided to close the facility in 2004. The hospital is now vacant.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg2000
Scanned with Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner as a 600 dpi TIFF image and 16-bit RGB color. Compressed to JPEG format using Photoshop CS2.
Extent
3.5 x 5.5 in.
Identifier
http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/sjplpc/id/232
Language
English
Subject
Hospitals
Drawings
Place
San Jose
California
Source
Historic Postcard Collection

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