Ocia Mae Miles and brother Herman at hospital after eating some "strange bluish powder" in Los Angeles, Calif., 1949

Item Overview

Title: Ocia Mae Miles and brother Herman at hospital after eating some "strange bluish powder" in Los Angeles, Calif., 1949
Date Created: May 8, 1949
Date: 1949-05-08
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Caption: KNOW BETTER NOW -- Ocia Mae Miles, 1 1/2, left, and brother Herman, 2 1/2, ate some "strange bluish powder" that turned out to be harmless clay, but were among five children treated yesterday at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital for odd diets.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 10 x 12.5 cm.
Medium: b&w negative

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
Names: Georgia Street Receiving Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Youth
Hospitals--Emergency service
Children--Nutrition--Psychological aspects
Poisoning, Accidental, in children--California--Los Angeles County
African American children--California--Los Angeles County

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclalat_1429_b65_57609
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002vttc
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