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. Several women were overcome by gas fumes from leaking pipes while sewing on a WPA project at 1108 West Thirty-fifth Street. Those who were not treated on scene were taken to Georgia-Street Receiving Hospital where they were effectively treated. Doris lies on a bed fully dressed while Nurse Stuart presses the oxygen mask over her mouth and nose. Nurse Partin adjusts the oxygen tank. Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Gas Fumes Stir Panic," Los Angeles Times, 03 Mar 1936: A1. Handwritten on negative: L2R Doris Dick 3/2/36 Nurse Alta Stuart Dr Wm Partin Text from negative sleeve: 3522 - Elizabeth Jones Annie Morrissey Rose Partridge Constance Krueger June Price Lucy Perrish Doris Dick Dr Wm Partin Nurse Alta May Stuart Gas Poisoning (leaky pipes @ WPA sewing project 1108 W. 35th) 3/2/36 [stamped:] Mar 4 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12527 ark:/21198/zz002hmjnx
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Nurses--American--California--Los Angeles Oxygen masks Physicians--American--California--Los Angeles Hospitals--California--Los Angeles Sick persons Beds Dick, Doris, b. 1905 Kattelmann, Alta May Stuart, 1907-1984 Partin, William, 1903-1972
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