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Title: Recently dismissed hospital employee Lewis Wayland, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 4, 1936
1936-02-04
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
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.
After saving a baby girl from a black widow spider bite and in the process subjecting himself to the spider's venom Lewis Wayland was dismissed from his position as medical assistant because hospital authorities disapproved of the attention and publicity that his actions had brought to the institution.
Wayland sits amongst stacks and shelves of books, resting his chin in one hand.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Act Brings Hero Grief," Los Angeles Times, 01 Feb 1936: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: 3520 - Lewis Wayland (Medical Student - Saved girl from spider bite (1/15?/36 [stamped:] Feb 4 1936
Handwritten on negative: Lewis Wayland
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12520
ark:/21198/zz002hmjd9
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Medical students--California--Los Angeles
Dismissal of employees--California--Los Angeles
Books
Bookcases--California--Los Angeles
Wayland, Lewis, 1911-1982
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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