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Title: Precious breath of life
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
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 February 29, 1960 reads, "Mr. and Mrs. Harold Carter, left, get some technical information on respirator they gave to Burbank Hospital. Accepting gift on behalf of hospital is Dr. Robert N. Landau, secretary-treasurer of medical staff. Carter explained that money for purchase of new equipment came from money his firm, Production Machinery Sales, Inc., ordinarily spent on Christmas cards. Carter holds rubber balloon which simulates lungs of patient."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00142278
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d051_f1_i26
CARL0005745195
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/71040
Subject: Burbank Community Hospital
Burbank Community Hospital--Employees
Physicians--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Couples--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Women--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Gifts--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Respirators (Medical equipment)--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Hospitals--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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