Mess hall, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, Los Angeles, circa 1928
Description
Mess hall, entrance and facade, with about 50 men gathered outside on dirt yard, most standing, 2 seated on bench, with palm tree in foreground, -118.45960021018982, The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS), Pacific Branch, was an earlier name, in part, for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Photographed on the grounds of what was later named the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System (U.S.), Date from National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Assessment of Significance And National Historic Landmark Recommendations (www.nps.gov): The James W. Wadsworth Hospital opened in 1927 ... The next year, new barracks and a new mess hall were constructed., Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2468 - 2468 - 2470 - 2471 2472 - 2473 - 2474 Soldiers Home Bldgs, Cemetery - barracks, Building identification from www.nps.gov/nhl/themes/Special%20Studies/NHDVS/Pacific%20Branch.pdf, Handwritten at edge of negative: 2471 P1, 34.057237179345734, Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.