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vintage photo from my collection.
This original 1913 silver gelatin photograph captures four young student nurses marching in a public parade or civic processional, providing an exceptional piece of early Los Angeles healthcare and community history. The group proudly flanks a large, highly decorative velvet or heavy silk processional banner bearing the emblem of a cross atop a crown and the prominent stitched lettering Methodist Hospital of Southern California.
Founded originally in 1903 by the Woman Home Missionary Society of the Southern California Conference of the Methodist Church, the institution operated out of a multi-story facility on South Hope Street in Los Angeles during this pre-World War I era, training generations of pioneering professional caregivers.
The women are impeccably dressed in their official historic nursing uniforms, featuring crisp white starched bib aprons over high-neck pinstripe or solid day dresses, dark fabric armbands, and the iconic folded white starched nurse caps that uniquely designated their specific training hospital class. In the background, fully dressed spectators holding large black umbrellas gather before the striking brick facade and arched stained-glass windows of a local Gothic Revival church building, highlighting the close historical ties between early twentieth-century religious conferences and public health enterprises. This photograph serves as an outstanding documentary record of early West Coast women in medicine, religious philanthropy, and regional medical education, making it a valuable acquisition for collectors of historic Los Angeles ephemera, medical nursing history, and vintage California estate albums.
3.25"X2.25"
good condition~some light slight scrapbook on back
I often show a high contrast close up however actual images is closer to second scan
Mailed with cardboard for stability. Envelope is hand canceled and
stamped with a "fragile please do not bend photo enclosed " in red on
outside of the envelope.
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