Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. View of fireman Edwin Reed, in scrubs, with inhalator, looking over baby, Patty Lou Williams, lying in open incubator. Patty Lou was born on February 21, 1935, with a collapsed lung. Firemen from county station number 8 worked in shifts to save Patty Lou's life. This photograph appears with the article, "Inhalator Squad Prove Heroic: Firemen Save Infant's Life in 131-Hour Battle," Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 1935. Handwritten on negative: Fireman Edwin Reed, Baby Williams, 1090 Text from negative sleeve: Reed, Fireman Edwin, Williams, Patty Lou, 2167, 2/14/36 Text from newspaper caption: Baby Patty Lou Williams owes her life to members of the county fire department. Fireman Edwin Reed, shown with inhalator, was one of the squad which helped save her life.
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8574 ark:/21198/zz002dgghv
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Subject
Infants--California--Los Angeles Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles Artificial respiration Reed, Edwin Paul, 1911-1988 Williams, Patty Lou, b. 1935
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