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Title: St. Joseph Hospital and Burbank city officials plan for civi defense exercise
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated September 26, 1960 reads, "Prepare For Disaster - '60 -- St. Joseph Hospital and Burbank city officials check facilities and plans for "Disaster--'60," a Civil Defense exercise set for Oct. 15. From left, Dr. Charles Sonneman, disaster medical staff coordinator; Fire Capt. Austin Wilkinson; Fire Inspector Harold Lawson; Mrs. Melba Rardin, director of hospital nursing service; Benjamin M. Watson, Burbank Civil Defense director. More than 100 "casualties" are to be treated at the hospital during exercise."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ; 13 x 18 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00085531
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d004_f29_i8
CARL0004769808
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/42933
Subject: St. Joseph Hospital (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Hospitals--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Catholic hospitals--California--Los Angeles
Civil defense--California--Los Angeles
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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