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Jacob Gross shakes hands with Dr. A. D. Trotter for saving his wife, Mildred Gross, Los Angeles, 1938

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Title: Jacob Gross shakes hands with Dr. A. D. Trotter for saving his wife, Mildred Gross, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: November 26, 1938
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
This photograph appears with the article, “MEDICAL SCIENCE RESTORES LIFE TO WOMAN DECLARED ‘DEAD’,” Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 1938: 1.
Text from negative sleeve: 15030—Dr. A. D. Trotter (revived Mildred Gross after suicide attempt w/ sleeping powder) 11-26-38. [Stamped:] DEC 10 1938.
Text from newspaper caption: Astounded, as a layman might well be, Jacob Gross, left, thanks Dr. A. D. Trotter at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital for “restoring” life to his wife Mildred after she had been declared “dead” from an overdose of power.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11760
ark:/21198/zz002h8kqz
Subject: Physicians--American--California--Los Angeles
Suicide prevention--California--Los Angeles
Hospitals--California--Los Angeles
Trotter, A. D., 1899-1967
Gross, Jacob, 1902-1986
Gross, Mildred, 1910-1938
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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