US UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Description
A government hospital train with 126 wounded and sick WWI soldiers arrives at La Grande Station in Los Angeles. The train continued to Camp Kearny. Photo appears with the article "WOUNDED GREETED HERE.: Relatives and Friends Throng Station as Hospital Train Stops on Way. When the "Million-Dollar Hospital Special" Arrived," Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 1919: I13. Text from newspaper caption: How Los Angeles Greeted the Train of wounded soldiers yesterday...train shown greeted by thousands... Text from negative sleeve: World War I — First Casualty Train into L.A.
Type
image
Format
b&w glass negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_b3739_G5685 ark:/21198/zz0002pr0r
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
War casualties--California--Los Angeles Hospital trains--California--Los Angeles Soldiers--American--California--Los Angeles World War, 1914-1918
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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