Doris Dick is treated by Nurses Alta May Stuart and William Partin, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Doris Dick is treated by Nurses Alta May Stuart and William Partin, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

March 1936

Date

1936-03

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Several women were overcome by gas fumes from leaking pipes while sewing on a WPA project at 1108 West Thirty-fifth Street. Those who were not treated on scene were taken to Georgia-Street Receiving Hospital where they were effectively treated.
Doris lies on a bed fully dressed while Nurse Stuart presses the oxygen mask over her mouth and nose. Nurse Partin adjusts the oxygen tank.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Gas Fumes Stir Panic," Los Angeles Times, 03 Mar 1936: A1.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: L2R Doris Dick 3/2/36 Nurse Alta Stuart Dr Wm Partin
Text from negative sleeve: 3522 - Elizabeth Jones Annie Morrissey Rose Partridge Constance Krueger June Price Lucy Perrish Doris Dick Dr Wm Partin Nurse Alta May Stuart Gas Poisoning (leaky pipes @ WPA sewing project 1108 W. 35th) 3/2/36 [stamped:] Mar 4 1936

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Dick, Doris, b. 1905
Kattelmann, Alta May Stuart, 1907-1984
Partin, William, 1903-1972

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Nurses--American--California--Los Angeles
Oxygen masks
Physicians--American--California--Los Angeles
Hospitals--California--Los Angeles
Sick persons
Beds