Melba Rardin and L. A. Claypool survey excavation for St. Joseph Hospital's addition
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Valley Times Photo Collection
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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
Title supplied by cataloger. Photograph caption dated July 11, 1961 reads, "Mrs. Melba Rardin, director of nursing service at St. Joseph Hospital, 501 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, surveys the vast excavation created to hold a new six-story-and-basement wing for the hospital. With her is L.A. Claypool, clerk of works for C.L. Peck, contractor on the $5,500,000 addition which will make possible 256 patient beds and other facilities."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ; 13 x 19 cm. Photographic prints
St. Joseph Hospital (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) Hospitals--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Catholic hospitals--California--Los Angeles Nurses--California--Los Angeles Hospital buildings--Design and construction Building sites--California--Los Angeles Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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