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Description
Identical twin sisters and nurses Thelma and Zelma Trammell in an operating room at Wadsworth Hospital in Los Angeles. They are assisting Dr. Ralph Milliken in a fake operation on Ramon Garcia for the purpose of the photograph. This photograph appears with the article "Twin Girls Shun Navy To Be Together in V.A.," Los Angeles Times 8 Dec. 1947: pg. 5. Text from newspaper caption: Live Together--Work Together--That's the life story of Thelma, left, and Zelma Trammell, nurses at Wadsworth General Hospital. Identical twins, they are shown with Dr. Ralph M. Milliken and Ramon Garcia, "patient." The work in the same ward.
Medical equipment & supplies Veteran's hospitals--California--Los Angeles Physicians--American--California--Los Angeles Sisters--American--California--Los Angeles Surgery Nurses--American--California--Los Angeles VA Wadsworth Hospital Trammell, Zelma Garcia, Ramon Milliken, Ralph M Trammell, Thelma
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