Los Angeles County General Hospital kitchen staff pose beside a food transport cart, Los Angeles, [1934]

Item Overview

Title

Los Angeles County General Hospital kitchen staff pose beside a food transport cart, Los Angeles, [1934]

Date Created

[circa April, 1934]

Date

1934-04

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Cooks and other kitchen staff at the Los Angeles County General Hospital pose beside a food delivery cart in the hospital's kitchen. They are viewed from a slightly elevated angle. The cart faces camera and sits off-center to the right. Plates and other dining utensils line its open shelves. Five kitchen staff stand around the cart. The kitchen stretches across the background. Employees stand around the carts that sit in rows in the background at left.
Possibly related to the article, "Hospital Set For Rites: County Edifice Opens Today New Institution, Amazing in Magnitude, Cost $13,000,000 Structure, Largest of Kind, Called Best Equipped in Nation," Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 1934: 11.

Caption

Handwritten text from negative sleeve: L.A. County General Hospital

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Los Angeles County General Hospital

Location

Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Kitchens--California--Los Angeles
Employees--California--Los Angeles
Carts & wagons--American--California--Los Angeles
Cookery--California--Los Angeles
Hospitals--California--Los Angeles