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Title: Checking the lights at the General Hospital, Los Angeles County, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: February 16, 1933
1933-02-16
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A test of the lights at the General Hospital was conducted by architect Edwin Bergstrom.
The multi-story building has a light on in almost every window, silhouetted against the black sky.
Photograph appears with the article, "New Hospital Ablaze With Light In Test," Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb 1933: A8.
Text from negative sleeve: L.A. County General Hospital
Text from newspaper caption: Power-Plant Try-Out Presents Brilliant Spectacle
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5660
ark:/21198/zz002cvqsw
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Hospitals--California--Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County General Hospital--Buildings
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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