Identifier	clloy_078
Title	California Hospital, Los Angeles, Cal.
Creator	Unknown
Date Published	circa 1914
Subject (Topic)	Hospitals--California--Los Angeles; Hospital buildings--California--Los Angeles;
Subject (Name)	California Hospital Medical Center;
Subject (Place)	Los Angeles (Calif.);
Type	image
Form/Genre	Postcards
Physical Description	1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Institution	Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Status	public domain
Copyright Statement	http://library.lmu.edu/collections/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Publisher	Western Publishing & Novelty Co.; Tichnor Brothers, Inc.
Place of Publication	Los Angeles, Cal.
Language	eng
Description	An exterior view of the California Hospital from the street, showing a collection of buildings arranged around a central garden area.
Historical Background	California Hospital Medical Center was founded in 1887 by Dr. Walter Lindley and two other physicians, and was the first physician-owned and operated hospital in Los Angeles. It was originally a three-story building located at 315 W. Sixth Street in Los Angeles. On the first floor of the structure were offices of established physicians. On the second floor there were several small offices occupied by younger physicians and a dentist. The third floor contained a small hospital of six to eight beds. The physicians in Lindley's building were affiliated with the University of Southern California Medical School. Twenty-one physicians agreed to acquire property, and erected at 1414 S. Hope Street the first building in California especially invented for medical purposes--a project that Walter Lindley supervised at every stage of its design and construction. By 1927, the hospital's original buildings were replaced by a nine-story brick building, making it the first fireproof hospital in Los Angeles.ß
Publisher's Identifier	Written in lower-right corner of photograph: "653"
Additional Notes	Approximate date from postmark.
Source	Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection