Cooks in the Los Angeles County General Hospital kitchen stir a vat of liquid, Los Angeles, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Cooks in the Los Angeles County General Hospital kitchen stir a vat of liquid, Los Angeles, 1934

Date Created

[circa April 15, 1934]

Date

1934-04-15

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

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.
Two cooks stand beside one of 3 vats that stand in the Los Angeles County General Hospital's kitchen. The leftmost cook stands behind and looks on as the other cook stirs the boiling liquid in the vat with a wooden plank. In the lower right corner, another vat sits closed and in partial view. Another vat sits open behind the cooks. Activity in the kitchen is visible in the background.

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
Cookery--California--Los Angeles
Hospitals--California--Los Angeles
Vats
Cooks