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Title
Aerial view of Los Angeles County Hospital and surroundings
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Creator
Spence Air Photos (Firm)
Date Created and/or Issued
1932
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
Title supplied by cataloger.
L.A. County Hospital and USC Medical School were first affiliated in 1885, so the hospital is commonly known as Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, as well as County USC. It has become one of the largest and busiest public hospitals and medical training centers in the western United States; offering 745 inpatient beds, treating over 28% of the region's trauma victims, recording nearly 39,000 inpatient discharges, 150,000 emergency department visits, and approximately 1 million ambulatory care visits per year.
Aerial view of East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights neighborhoods revealing the Art Deco Los Angeles County General Hospital (center), surrounded by a multitude of residential dwellings. Photo dated: June 15, 1932.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;18 x 24 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00075014
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Hospitals-County Hospital.
CARL0000079225
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111126
Subject
Los Angeles County General Hospital
Dwellings--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Hospitals--California--Los Angeles
Medical centers--California--Los Angeles
Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Aerial views
Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)
East Los Angeles (Calif.)--Aerial views
East Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source
Slade, Milton.

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