Keith Scruggs tends to his wife Reba when she is stricken by convulsions, Los Angeles, 1938

Title: Keith Scruggs tends to his wife Reba when she is stricken by convulsions, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created: December 27, 1938
Date: 1938-12-27
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Mrs. Scruggs appeared in front of the Board of Supervisors along with several other victims of the General Hospital 1934 polio epidemic in an effort to reinstate Dr. E.T. Remmen as their attending physician after his recent dismissal.
Mr. Scruggs leans over his wife lying on a table. Her head rests on a folded jacket. There are several other unidentified people watching.
Photograph appears with the article, "Supervisors See Stricken Nurse Swoon," Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec 1938: 1.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Reba Scruggs
Text from negative sleeve: 15259 - Polio Case Mrs. Reba Scruggs polio victim (on table) Keith Scruggs, husband (assisting) Jakobsen [stamped:] Dec (?) 1938
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Reba Scruggs, former student nurse at General Hospital, shown as husband, Keith Scruggs, went to her as she suffered convulsion at supervisors' meeting yesterday.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Scruggs, Reba Catherine, 1914-2001
Scruggs, Eldridge Keith, 1908-1984
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Spouses--California--Los Angeles
Poliomyelitis--California--Los Angeles
Loss of consciousness

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_11998
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h8vwd
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