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Title: Nurses answering phones, California Hospital, Los Angeles, 1956
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa May 6, 1956]
1956-05-06
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: This photograph appears with the article "Hospitals Prepare Disaster Action," Los Angeles Times, 6 May 1956: B1.
Several nurses answering phones in a training drill at California Hospital in Los Angeles. This is one of many training exercises going on throughout the nation for Hospital Week.
Text from newspaper caption: Communications--Setting up emergency communications center is demonstrated at California Hospital. Messengers will be utilized in hospital while phones maintain contact with defense units.
Type: image
Identifier: c1429_b273_98780-4_DC761
ark:/21198/zz002hj6dk
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Nurses--American--California--Los Angeles
Hospitals--California--Los Angeles
Telephone answering services
California Hospital Medical Center
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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