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. Dr. John J. Durkin and Nurse Lila Strange take care of John A. Haeseler's pet chimpanzee, who is sick with the flu, who are ordering bed rest and a hot water bottle. A similar photograph can be found with the caption, "Physician Ministers to Sick Simian," Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb 1936: A1. Ditto the monkey sits on a hospital bed chewing on a tongue depressor while Dr. Durkin and Nurse Strange tend to him. Handwritten on negative: Dr. John J. Durkin -"Ditto"- Nurse Lila Strange Text from negative sleeve: 3747 - Dr. John J. Durkin Monkey "Ditto" Nurse Lila Strange Georgia Hosp - monkey w/flu 2/15/36 [stamped:] Feb 21 1936
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12811 ark:/21198/zz002hmwfn
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Health care--California--Los Angeles Hospitals--California--Los Angeles Chimpanzees--California--Los Angeles Durkin, John J., Doctor Strange, Lila, Nurse
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