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Title: Los Angeles County General Hospital dedication ceremony, Los Angeles, [1934]
Contributor: Allied Architects Association of Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa April 15, 1934]
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The front facade of the art deco-style Los Angeles County General Hospital rises in the distance. On the building's front steps, people partake in the dedication ceremonies. Ahead of them, a seated audience watches the dedication. People mill about the barren ground in the foreground.
Possibly related to the article, "New General Hospital Dedicated to Humanity: Thousands Present as Officials and Civic Leaders Speak at Rites in Mammoth Institution," Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 1934: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: [handwritten:] L.A. County General Hospital
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5661
ark:/21198/zz002cvqtd
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Building dedications--California--Los Angeles
Hospitals--California--Los Angeles
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles County General Hospital
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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