Dr. George C. Bergman and his wife Gertrude Nelson Bergman, Redlands, Calif., 1936 (copy photo)

Item Overview

Title

Dr. George C. Bergman and his wife Gertrude Nelson Bergman, Redlands, Calif., 1936 (copy photo)

Date Created

[circa February 7, 1936]

Date

1936-02-07

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

English

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Dr. George Bergman and Gertrude Bergman were 7th Day Adventists missionaries in Ethiopia. He founded a hospital in Dessie and was the superintendent of Zauditu Memorial Sanitarium and Hospital in Addis Ababa. When Italy was ready to invade Ethiopia in 1935, he sent his family back to Los Angeles, but he remained to take care of any casualties.
Copy photo
Portrait photograph of Dr. George C. Bergman and Gertrude Nelson Bergman, taken by Barnett studio in Redlands, California. May be a wedding or engagement photograph.

Caption

Stamped into photograph: Barnett REDLANDS, CAL.
Handwritten on negative sleeve: 3534. Geo C. [typed:] Dr. & Mrs. Bergman [handwritten:] from LA went to Ethiopia to be Medical Director of 7th Day Adventist Hospital [stamped:] Feb 7 1936

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
Portrait photographs
news photographs

Names

Bergman, Gertrude Nelson, 1897-
Bergman, George C. George Clyde, 1898-1957

Location

Redlands (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Spouses--California--Los Angeles
Physicians--American--California--Los Angeles
Seventh-Day Adventists--California--Los Angeles County
Missionaries--American--Ethiopia--Addis Ababa