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Iron lungs enroute to Rancho Los Amigos

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Order Number	00055409
Title	Iron lungs enroute to Rancho Los Amigos
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 2262.
Date	1954
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w
Description	This is the specially-equipped baggage car of Southern Pacific Starlight train in which two polio patients in iron lungs were brought here from San Jose on August 31, 1954. The victims are Mrs. Bettey Sohm, 45 (2) and Delores Gomes,18 (2). A doctor, two nurses' aides and an air-conditioning expert accompanied them on the trip, enroute to Rancho Los Amigos Hospital.
Subject	Sohm, Bettey. Gomes, Delores. Rancho Los Amigos Hospital. Southern Pacific Company. Hospitals--California--Downey. Children--California--Downey. Poliomyelitis. Iron lung. Railroad trains. Downey (Calif.). Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection