Butchers in the Los Angeles County General Hospital kitchen prepare to butcher animal carcasses, Los Angeles, [1934]

Item Overview

Title

Butchers in the Los Angeles County General Hospital kitchen prepare to butcher animal carcasses, Los Angeles, [1934]

Date Created

[circa April, 1934]

Date

1934-04

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Three butchers prepare animal carcasses in the Los Angeles County General Hospital kitchen. One of the butchers stands at the butcher block table at left and prepares a shank. Behind him, another butcher begins to carve into one of the several animal carcasses hanging from hooks on an elevated track. The line of carcasses stretches across the image towards the right. The third butcher stands at right and holds his knives as he assesses the carcasses.
Possibly related to the article, "Hospital Set For Rites: County Edifice Opens Today New Institution, Amazing in Magnitude, Cost $13,000,000 Structure, Largest of Kind, Called Best Equipped in Nation," Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 1934: 11.

Caption

Handwritten text from negative sleeve: L.A. County General Hospital

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Los Angeles County General Hospital

Location

Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Kitchens--California--Los Angeles
Dead animals--California
Butchers--California--Los Angeles
Cookery--California--Los Angeles
Hospitals--California--Los Angeles
Meat cutting--California--Los Angeles