Dr. Walter Lindley scrapbooks, 1869-1943 (bulk 1875-1921).

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Dr. Walter Lindley scrapbooks, 1869-1943 (bulk 1875-1921).

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The collection consists of 32 scrapbooks assembled by Dr. Walter Lindley, documenting through clippings, correspondence, and ephemeral materials his most notable endeavors, including the formation and management of the California Hospital and nursing program, his candidacy for mayor of Los Angeles, the development of the Whittier State School, time served on the Los Angeles Public Library board, and the founding of a tuberculosis sanitarium in Idyllwild.

30 boxes.

The Claremont Colleges, Claremont University Consortium

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Lindley, Walter, 1852-

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Dr. Walter Lindley (1852-1922) was born in Monrovia, Ind., Jan. 13, 1852, the son of Milton Lindley, merchant, treasurer and commissioner of Los Angeles County, and Mary E. Lindley (born Mary E. Banta). As a boy he attended school and worked on a farm. He graduated from Keen's School of Anatomy in Philadelphia in 1872, followed by Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1875. During his final year of college he was appointed by the Brooklyn Board of Health as ambulance surgeon and was ...