Two cooks remove a pan from an oven in the Los Angeles County General Hospital's kitchen while an administrator watches. A cook at left holds onto a peel while standing behind a table. Behind and to the right of him, an administrator stands beside the wall oven and peers towards a tray of food. The oven is inset into the wall at center. Another cook stands to the right of the oven and guides the pan of food out of the oven and onto the peel. Behind him, at right, several pans of food sit on a shelving unit. Subway tiles surround the oven and line its wall.
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.
Three butchers prepare animal carcasses in the Los Angeles County General Hospital kitchen. One of the butchers stands at the butcher block table at left and prepares a shank. Behind him, another butcher begins to carve into one of the several animal carcasses hanging from hooks on an elevated track. The line of carcasses stretches across the image towards the right. The third butcher stands at right and holds his knives as he assesses the carcasses.
Possibly related to the article, "New General Hospital Dedicated to Humanity: Thousands Present as Officials and Civic Leaders Speak at Rites in Mammoth Institution," Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 1934: A1.
A cook pours liquid from a saucepan into a bucket while standing beside a large vat in the Los Angeles County General Hospital's kitchen. The large, metal vat sits at left with its lid flapped open. In front of it at right, several buckets sit atop a metal table. The cook stands behind the table and to the right of the vat. He appears to stand propped on an unseen stool. In one hand he holds a bucket, which catches the liquid he pours from a saucepan he holds in his other hand. Other kitchen cooks are visible in the background at right.
Possibly related to the article, "New General Hospital Dedicated to Humanity: Thousands Present as Officials and Civic Leaders Speak at Rites in Mammoth Institution," Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 1934: A1.
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.
Miss Florence Mast stands with child patients posing in their hospital beds while taking sun on a rooftop terrace at the Los Angeles County General Hospital. Several children look to camera as they sit up in their beds, which are arranged around the perimeter of the deck. A girl in front, at left, lies in her bed with cast on her leg. Behind the leftmost bed, Miss Mast stands. Two children share a wheelchair at center. Behind the group, wire fencing caps a low brick wall that extends around the perimeter of the terrace. Curtains hang down from rails that rise high above the fencing. The curtains at far left and far right are partially drawn.
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.
About 100 graduate nurses pose on the front steps of Los Angeles County General Hospital for a group portrait. They are viewed at a slight angle from the front. A set of steps passes across the foreground and in front of the group. Nurses in the front row stand on a landing. The rest of the group stands on the ascending steps behind them. Across the background, the facade of the hospital stretches across the image. At center, three arched doorways stand. Above each of them, three sculpted figures are affixed to the facade.