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Title
White Memorial Hospital, White Memorial Church, looking south
Alternative Title
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator
Kelly, Howard D
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
1957
Publication Information
Kelly-Holiday
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.
Founded by the Seventh-day Adventist Church on September 29, 1913, the College of Medical Evangelist opened a small storefront clinic at 941 E. First Street in Los Angeles. Because demand was so great just three short years later, it became apparent that there was a need to expand the clinic. Through non-stop efforts of the Adventist Church, it purchased property on Boyle Avenue in 1916, and in 1917, construction began on cottage-style buildings that would become a permanent hospital. On April 21, 1918, a crowd of 2,500 people gathered to witness the dedication of White Memorial Hospital - named in honor of Ellen G. White. In 1920, a new dormitory for nurses was built, and in 1923, medical training began with the opening of the White Memorial School of Nursing. In the mid-1930s, the hospital built a 180-bed, five-story concrete and steel structure at a cost of $330,000, which was dedicated in 1937 - it was the first earthquake-resistant hospital in California. In 1955, the hospital completed a new 200-bed facility at a cost of $2.3 million; by the late 1950s, White Memorial's campus was spread out among eight city blocks, and the medical school which was divided between Loma Linda and White Memorial campuses were pressured to merge to a single location. In 1962, Loma Linda University relocated its students and faculty to a consolidated campus in Loma Linda. In 1963, the hospital's ownership was transferred from Loma Linda University to the Southern California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, a division of the Adventist Church; the name would eventually be changed from White Memorial Hospital to White Memorial Medical Center. Today, White Memorial Medical Center, located at 1720 Cesar E. Chavez Avenue, is a 369-bed, not-for-profit, faith-based, acute care teaching hospital staffed by 400 physicians, 1,700 employees and 50 volunteers, providing a full range of inpatient, outpatient, emergency and diagnostic services to communities in and near downtown Los Angeles.
Aerial view of White Memorial Hospital (at center) and White Memorial Church (center left); view is looking south. This is the site of the future White Memorial Medical Center on Boyle and Cesar Chavez Avenue in Los Angeles. Some identifiable streets include: (l to r) State Street, middle left to upper right; Bailey Street, lower left to upper right; Boyle Avenue, bottom middle curving at center right; (bottom to top) Bridge Street, bottom left corner; Brooklyn Avenue (presently Cesar E. Chavez Avenue), lower right to middle left; New Jersey Street, lower right to middle left; Michigan Avenue, middle right to middle left; Pennsylvania Avenue, middle right to upper left; and 1st Street, middle right to upper left. A small section of the Santa Ana (101) Freeway is visible at extreme top right corner. Photograph dated February 6, 1957.
Type
image
Format
1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier
00089939
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
GPC_b24_f2_i17 (Photographic print); KHAF 338-19
CARL0004963703
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/5413
Subject
White Memorial Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.)
White Memorial Church (Los Angeles, Calif.)
White Memorial Medical Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Express highways--California, Southern
Hospital buildings--California--Los Angeles
Church buildings--California--Los Angeles
Hospitals--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
United States Highway 101
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Time Period
1951-1960

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