Wadsworth Hospital, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, Los Angeles, circa 1928
Description
Four 5- or 6-story hospital buildings, with driveway, street, cars, and palm trees in foreground, Negative damaged: adhesive or paper residue at top, left, and bottom edges, 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, 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.), Handwritten at edge of negative: 2469 P1, Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2468 - 2468 - 2470 - 2471 2472 - 2473 - 2474 Soldiers Home Bldgs, Cemetery - barracks, Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.