Patty Lou Williams, rescued by inhalator squad at birth, sitting with sister, Ethel Lucille Williams, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Patty Lou Williams, rescued by inhalator squad at birth, sitting with sister, Ethel Lucille Williams, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: September 13, 1935
Date: 1935-09-13
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: This photograph appears with the article, "Gurgle Should Please Firemen: Inhalators Save Babies, Children Thriving Months After Firemen Worked to Revive Them," Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 1935.
View of Patty Lou Williams in dress, held by her sister, Ethel Lucille Williams, seated in chair, in collared dress, and buckled shoes. On February 21, 1935, Patty Lou was found suffering from a collapsed lung. The inhalator squad from Engine Company number 8 saved her life.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 2167, Patty Lou Williams, 6 mo, Ethel Lucille Williams, 4 yrs, life saved by Fireman, 9/13/35, [stamped:] Sep 19 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Seven-months-old Patty Lou Williams gurgled to the world yesterday that she is glad to be alive. Shown with her sister, Ethel Lucille, 4, Patty Lou is one of two babies whose lives were saved by fire department inhalator squads in record-breaking resuscitation efforts.
Handwritten on negative: Patty Lou Williams, 6 mo, Ethel Lucille, 4 yrs, 9/13/3[5]

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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