Crowd greets the first government hospital train to cross the continent, Los Angeles, 1919

Title: Crowd greets the first government hospital train to cross the continent, Los Angeles, 1919
Date Created: March 29,1919
Date: 1919-03-29
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: A government hospital train with 126 wounded and sick WWI soldiers arrives at La Grande Station in Los Angeles. The train continued to Camp Kearny. Photo appears with the article "WOUNDED GREETED HERE.: Relatives and Friends Throng Station as Hospital Train Stops on Way. When the "Million-Dollar Hospital Special" Arrived," Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 1919: I13.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: How Los Angeles Greeted the Train of wounded soldiers yesterday...train shown greeted by thousands...
Text from negative sleeve: World War I — First Casualty Train into L.A.

Genre: news photographs
glass plate negatives
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.0472307
Latitude: -118.2324179
Resource type: still image
Subjects: War casualties--California--Los Angeles
Hospital trains--California--Los Angeles
Soldiers--American--California--Los Angeles
World War, 1914-1918

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3739_G5685
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002pr0r
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