Barracks, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, Los Angeles, circa 1928
Description
Side view of 3-story brick barracks building, with arched windows on 2nd floor, rectangular windows on 1st and 3rd floors, stairs leading to front and side entrances, with path, dirt yard, man in hat and suspenders, and overhanging pepper tree branches in foreground, 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, Building identification from www.nps.gov/nhl/themes/Special%20Studies/NHDVS/Pacific%20Branch.pdf, Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2468 - 2468 - 2470 - 2471 2472 - 2473 - 2474 Soldiers Home Bldgs, Cemetery - barracks, 34.054988331079784, -118.46134901046753, Handwritten at edge of negative: 2468 P2, Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.