Patient G. R. Traub, nurse Grace Burge at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Patient G. R. Traub, nurse Grace Burge at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

October 22, 1935

Date

1935-10-22

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

George R. Traub, covered in bandages from waist to neck, sits on a hospital bed while being attended by Nurse Grace Burge at the Georgia Street Receiving Hospital.
The Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, one of several throughout the city during this period, operated from 1927 to 1957 on the 3rd floor of the Georgia Street Police Station at 1337 Georgia. This block of Georgia St., near Pico Blvd. no longer exists and is no the site of the Staples Center.
Related to article, "Kitchen Utensil Blows Up: Stew Explosion in Cafe Sends Cook to Hospital." Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 1935

Caption

Handwritten on nitrate negative: Nurse Grace Burge & G.R. Traub, 10-22-35
Text from newspaper caption: G.R. Traub, cafe owner, is shown above being treated at Georgia-street Receiving Hospital by Nurse Grace Burge for burns received when a pressure cooker full of mulligan stew blew up.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2590-- @ Georgia-street Receiving Hospital, Nurse Grace Burge, G.R. Traub, Cook + cafe owner, Stew Blows up + Burns him, 10-22-35

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Burge, Grace
Traub, George R., 1886-1960
Georgia Street Receiving Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.042363

Latitude

-118.269552

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Nurses--American--California--Los Angeles
Hospitals--California--Los Angeles
Burns & scalds