Language: No linguistic content / Location: Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: A street scene in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Unidentified men and boys wearing gabis are working with equines. Buildings, trees, and fences made of sticks can be seen in the background. People in the background appear to be building a fence.
Date:: July 10, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Beem, Marvel D. (Marvel Darlington), 1898-1963
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The American Legation is advising Southern California citizens and their families, medical missionaries of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, to leave Ethiopia because of the threat of war. Dr. Nicola of Montebello left for Abyssinia in 1933 and lives in Addis Ababa with his wife and their three sons.
Date:: July 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Dr. George Bergman and his family 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.
Date:: [circa February 7, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A one story building sits on a stone foundation. The windows and doors have contrast colored bricks. A raised porch is on the right side of the building. Several brick steps lead to a door on the front and a child sits on the side of the steps. The yard is scrub brush. Trees and a mountain are in the background.
Date:: [circa February 7, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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