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Title
Surprised
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
1954
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 was edited for publication purposes
The Olive View Sanatorium was founded in 1920 as a treatment facility for tuberculosis patients. As the number of tuberculosis cases decreased, the facility was renamed Olive View Hospital. Later, the hospital became affiliated with the UCLA Medical School, becoming the Olive View Medical Center, a teaching hospital with a new 888-bed facility dedicated in December of 1970. Unfortunately, the San Fernando earthquake damaged the building just weeks after opening and the building was demolished in 1973. Olive View continued to serve patients in Van Nuys until the reopening of a new facility at the original Sylmar site. The Olive View - UCLA Medical Center, at 14445 Olive View Drive, was dedicated in 1987.
Photograph caption dated December 27, 1954 reads "Children's eyes lit up when members of the Glendale Oakmont League distributed Christmas Seal candy leis to small patients of Olive View Sanatorium. To add a note of gaiety and cheer for the children, leis were fashioned from brightly colored paper, candies, Christmas Seals and toy horns tied with red ribbon. Offering leis to little Steven are Mmes. John Weston and George Bell, members of the league."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00141129
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d049_f21_i3
CARL0005725674
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/70550
Subject
Olive View Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Women--California--Los Angeles
Boys--California--Los Angeles
Hospital patients--California--Los Angeles
Hospitals--California--Sylmar (Los Angeles)
Sanatoriums--California--Los Angeles
Gifts--California--Los Angeles
Sylmar (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period
1951-1960

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