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Order Number	00056919
Title	Iron lung patient arrives
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 2262.
Date	1949
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w
Description	The end of the journey. Mrs. Nelson safely reaches Rancho Los Amigos Hospital on March 14, 1949, after a 24-minute, 13-mile trip. She is shown in an iron lung in the foreground with other polio victims who were removed from General Hospital in the same convoy.
Subject	Hospitals--California--Downey. Poliomyelitis. Iron lung. Downey (Calif.). Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs. 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