US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. 17 month old Eleanor Cammack King was caught by her mother drinking the contents of a bottle of liquid used for replating silver outside their home on 117 North Fuller avenue. Mr. and Mrs. W. Cammack King's daughter was rushed to the hospital and pronounced out of danger after treatment. Nurse Becky Lund is tentatively identified from the 1930 census record of Rebecca L. Lund of Angus Street. Handwritten on negative: Eleanor King - 17 mo Nurse Becky Lund 1/23/36 Text from newspaper caption: Having swallowed part of the contents of a bottle of silver plating fluid, 17-months-old Eleanor Cammack King is shown with Nurse Becky Lund at Hollywood Receiving Hospital. [Los Angeles, California, 23 Jan. 1936: A3] Text from negative sleeve: 3459 - Eleanor King - 17mo-x Nurse Becky Lund (Hollywood Receiving.) Drinks Silver Polish 1/22/36 [stamped:] Jan 31 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12428 ark:/21198/zz002hmf78
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Nurses--American--California--Los Angeles Poisoning, Accidental, in children--California--Los Angeles County Emergency medical services--California--Los Angeles Lund, Becky, b. 1894-1976 King, Eleanor Cammack, b. 1935
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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