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Title: Northridge hospital joins defense plan
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Northridge Receiving Hospital, later renamed Northridge Hospital, then Northridge Hospital Medical Center.
Photograph caption dated July 8, 1959 reads, "Northridge Hospital Joins Defense Plan -- Northridge Hospital nurse Effie Johnson is briefed on use of civil defense radio network by Dr. Donald Barker, center, disaster chairman of Valley branch Los Angeles County Medical Association, and Tim Huntly, communication coordinator for Los Angeles Civil Defense. Northridge becomes first hospital in Los Angeles area to join radio disaster network for use in case telephone communications are destroyed."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084488
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d003_f31_i19
CARL0004766195
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/43307
Subject: Northridge Receiving Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hospitals--California--Northridge (Los Angeles)
Civil defense--California--Los Angeles
Nurses--California--Los Angeles
Northridge (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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