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Start Over Genre Photographs Place California--Los Angeles

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Nurse in maternity ward, using Beckman Model D oxygen analyzer to monitor an infant in an incubator
- Circa 1960
Los Angeles County General Hospital nurse Mary Finlay is monitoring the oxygen levels of a prematurely born infant in an incubator, to provide just the right oxygen mixture. Too little oxygen has obvious repercussions,…
- Photographer Preston E. Mitchell Commercial Photography
- Subject Los Angeles County General Hospital, Newborn infants, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Oxygen--Measurement, Oxygen--Analysis, Nurses, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
Photographs

Nurse in maternity ward, using Beckman Model D oxygen analyzer to monitor an infant in an incubator
- 1950s
Los Angeles County General Hospital nurse Mary Finlay is monitoring the oxygen levels of a prematurely born infant in an incubator, to provide just the right oxygen mixture. Too little oxygen has obvious repercussions,…
- Photographer Preston E. Mitchell Commercial Photography
- Subject Los Angeles County General Hospital, Newborn infants, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Oxygen--Measurement, Oxygen--Analysis, Nurses, Beckman Instruments, Inc.