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Orange County Hospital grounds after the Santa Ana River flooded, West Chapman Avenue, Orange, California, March 3, 1938. Image shows bird's eye view of several buildings and trees located on the hopsital grounds with water rasied several feet. A flooded street with stranded cars is in the foreground. The hospital was designed by architect Frederick H. Eley and constructed in 1914 as the Orange County Poor Farm where residents raised their own vegetables, hogs and chickens and picked fruit from a 23-acre Valencia orange grove. Poor farm was phased out in the Depression as too expensive. Hospital was expanded in 1963, and the name was changed to Orange County Medical Center in 1969. Buildings were sold in 1976 to the University of California, and later became the UCI Medical Center. [See also OPL3646, OPL3647 & OPL3649] Photographic print B&w 20.3 x 25.4 cm.
Bird's-eye views Orange (Calif.) Hospitals Floods--Orange (Calif.) Santa Ana River Flood--1938--Orange County (Calif.) Orange County Hospital--Orange (Calif.)
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