Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Newspaper caption for similar photograph: Tiny Unfortunates Have Christmas Show: Little patients of the Orthopedic Hospital, 2400 South Flower street, are shown being entertained by merry-makers with their annual Christmas show yesterday. Fat penguins performed their sober antics for the children while a puppet shoe, depicting Santa Claus's workshop at the North Pole, was prepared. [Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec 1935: A3. Children in wheel chairs with plaid blankets over their legs are entertained by two actors dressed as penguins and one dressed as Santa Claus during a Christmas show on the lawn of the children's orthopedic hospital. The hospital in the same location is now called the Orthopaedic Institute for Children. Handwritten on negative: Shell Show at Orthopedic. 12-2-25. Text from negative sleeve: 3033. Shell Show at Orthopedic Hospital. 12-2-25. [Stamped:] Dec 3 1935.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_10791 ark:/21198/zz002h9wj5
Subject
Children with disabilities--California--Los Angeles Sick children--California--Los Angeles County Children--Hospital care--California--Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital
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