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Dr. George C. Bergman and his wife Gertrude Nelson Bergman, Redlands, Calif., 1936 (copy photo)

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Title: Dr. George C. Bergman and his wife Gertrude Nelson Bergman, Redlands, Calif., 1936 (copy photo)
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa February 7, 1936]
1936-02-07
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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Dr. George Bergman and Gertrude Bergman were 7th Day Adventists missionaries in Ethiopia. He founded a hospital in Dessie and was the superintendent of Zauditu Memorial Sanitarium and Hospital in Addis Ababa. When Italy was ready to invade Ethiopia in 1935, he sent his family back to Los Angeles, but he remained to take care of any casualties.
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Portrait photograph of Dr. George C. Bergman and Gertrude Nelson Bergman, taken by Barnett studio in Redlands, California. May be a wedding or engagement photograph.
Stamped into photograph: Barnett REDLANDS, CAL.
Handwritten on negative sleeve: 3534. Geo C. [typed:] Dr. & Mrs. Bergman [handwritten:] from LA went to Ethiopia to be Medical Director of 7th Day Adventist Hospital [stamped:] Feb 7 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12563
ark:/21198/zz002hmkw1
Language: English
Subject: Spouses--California--Los Angeles
Physicians--American--California--Los Angeles
Seventh-Day Adventists--California--Los Angeles County
Missionaries--American--Ethiopia--Addis Ababa
Bergman, Gertrude Nelson, 1897-
Bergman, George C. George Clyde, 1898-1957
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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