Subject: Poliomyelitis--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: From left to right: film producer Louis B. Mayer, Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin, and Bishop Bertrand Stevens in the luncheon room at the Biltmore Hotel where 400 leading Californians had gathered to discuss the campaign to raise funds for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Mr. Mayer spoke at the meeting saying, "this battle is not for greed or power, but for human good without distinction of race or creed" and acknowledged the presence of Rabbi Magnin and Bishop Stevens (among others) as a sign that we live in a "land where men of different faiths combine to aid humanity"
Date:: December 12, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: From left to right: film producer Louis B. Mayer, Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin, and Bishop Bertrand Stevens in the luncheon room at the Biltmore Hotel where 400 leading Californians had gathered to discuss the campaign to raise funds for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Mr. Mayer spoke at the meeting saying, "this battle is not for greed or power, but for human good without distinction of race or creed" and acknowledged the presence of Rabbi Magnin and Bishop Stevens (among others) as a sign that we live in a "land where men of different faiths combine to aid humanity"
Date:: December 12, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mr. Scruggs leans over his wife lying on a table. Her head rests on a folded jacket. There are several other unidentified people watching.
Date:: December 27, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Anita rests one arm on the table in front of her, looking sideways and unsmiling at the camera.
Date:: December 27, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph may be associated with the article, “Supervisors See Stricken Nurse Swoon: Poliomyelitis Victims Become Hysterical at Board Hearing,” Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 1938: 1.
Date:: December 28, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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