Recently dismissed hospital employee Lewis Wayland, Los Angeles, 1936

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

Description: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Act Brings Hero Grief," Los Angeles Times, 01 Feb 1936: A1.
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.
Wayland sits amongst stacks and shelves of books, resting his chin in one hand.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 3520 - Lewis Wayland (Medical Student - Saved girl from spider bite (1/15?/36 [stamped:] Feb 4 1936
Handwritten on negative: Lewis Wayland

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: 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

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_12520
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hmjd9
Manifest url

Rights statement: copyrighted
Rights Holder: UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.