Barracks, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, Los Angeles, circa 1928

Description

Rear view of 2 3-story brick barracks buildings, with arched windows on 2nd floor, rectangular windows on 1st and 3rd floors, with dirt yard and 2 cars in left foreground, Handwritten at edge of negative: 2468 P 4 Pan, Building identification from www.nps.gov/nhl/themes/Special%20Studies/NHDVS/Pacific%20Branch.pdf, 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, 34.05548610500734, Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2468 - 2468 - 2470 - 2471 2472 - 2473 - 2474 Soldiers Home Bldgs, Cemetery - barracks, 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.), -118.46252918243408, Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.