Training vets to face life aim at Sepulveda Hospital
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph caption dated February 2, 1957 reads "Spacious pool used by vets. Included among facilities for hospital's neuro-psychiatric patients is this huge swimming pool, valuable from both therapeutic and recreational standpoint. Hospital also has golf course, wood shops, metal shops, library, theater which is soon to show CinemaScope, gym and chapel. Neuro-psychiatric patients are treated as individuals with emphasis placed on returning them to the community. Patients are taught to live, work and play together in situations approximating those found outside hospital. They even have partial government of their own, make many of their own rules."; See images #00141143 through #00141148 for all photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Sepulveda Veterans Administration Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.) Men--California--Los Angeles Veterans--United States Mentally ill--California--Los Angeles People with mental disabilities--California--Los Angeles Hospital patients--California--Los Angeles Swimming--California--Los Angeles Swimming pools--California--Los Angeles Recreational therapy--California--Los Angeles Hospitals--California--Sepulveda (Los Angeles) North Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.) Sepulveda (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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