Recently dismissed hospital employee Lewis Wayland, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Recently dismissed hospital employee Lewis Wayland, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: February 4, 1936
Date: 1936-02-04
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: After saving a baby girl from a black widow spider bite and in the process subjecting himself to the spider's venom Lewis Wayland was dismissed from his position as medical assistant because hospital authorities disapproved of the attention and publicity that his actions had brought to the institution.
Wayland sits amongst stacks and shelves of books, resting his chin in one hand.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Act Brings Hero Grief," Los Angeles Times, 01 Feb 1936: A1.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 3520 - Lewis Wayland (Medical Student - Saved girl from spider bite (1/15?/36 [stamped:] Feb 4 1936
Handwritten on negative: Lewis Wayland

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Wayland, Lewis, 1911-1982
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Medical students--California--Los Angeles
Dismissal of employees--California--Los Angeles
Books
Bookcases--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_12520
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hmjd9
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Rights Country: US
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