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Nurse Amelia Moore holds the first baby born in the hospital on Christmas in Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Nurse Amelia Moore holds the first baby born in the hospital on Christmas in Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 26, 1935
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.
Text from negative sleeve: 4250 - Amelia Grace Moore (nurse) Baby_Rooks_ first Xmas Baby-1935- 12/25/35 [stamped:] Dec 31 1935
Photograph appears with the article, "Stork Takes Santa Role," Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec 1935: A1.
On this Christmas Day 28 baby boys and girls were born, defeating last year's record of 20 - the first of the first that was born was the daughter of Mrs. Albert Brooks of 836 West Fifty-sixth street just after midnight.
Handwritten on negative: Nurse Amelia Gene MooreBaby Rooks
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13296
ark:/21198/zz002hng55
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Holidays--California--Los Angeles
Maternity hospitals--California--Los Angeles
Infants--California--Los Angeles
Nurses--American--California--Los Angeles
Moore, Amelia Gene, 1906-1963
Rooks, Joyce, b. 1935
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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