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Title: 1,511 empty polio vaccine syringes
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: 1959
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 September 2, 1959 reads, "Dr. Robert A. Schemmel and nurse Virginia Davis discuss success of first polio vaccine clinic held by Burbank Hospital's Emergency Care department when 1,511 inoculations were given. They stand beside empty one-shot syringes used at clinic. Sept. 22 has been scheduled for next clinic."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00142276
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d051_f1_i24
CARL0005745193
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/71047
Subject: Burbank Community Hospital
Burbank Community Hospital--Employees
Physicians--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Nurses--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Women--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Poliomyelitis vaccine
Syringes
Hospitals--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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