Recently dismissed hospital employee Lewis Wayland, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview
- Title
- Recently dismissed hospital employee Lewis Wayland, Los Angeles, 1936
- Date Created
- February 4, 1936
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Wayland sits amongst stacks and shelves of books, resting his chin in one hand.
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.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Act Brings Hero Grief," Los Angeles Times, 01 Feb 1936: A1. - Caption
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Handwritten on negative: Lewis Wayland
Text from negative sleeve: 3520 - Lewis Wayland (Medical Student - Saved girl from spider bite (1/15?/36 [stamped:] Feb 4 1936
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
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Bookcases--California--Los Angeles
Dismissal of employees--California--Los Angeles
Medical students--California--Los Angeles
Books - Names
- Wayland, Lewis, 1911-1982
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_12520
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hmjd9
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .