Scrapbook of Warm Springs with Photographs of Nurses, Patients, and Celebration of the Little White House, 1944-1947

Warm Springs (1944-47). 84 photographs, also included are: 13 paintings of patients being fitted for body casts, water therapy and the ever present wheel chairs. Albert Gold's paintings are also in the Smithsonian, the Philadelphia College of Art and many museums. The most interesting are the photographs of the Dedication of the Little White House after FDR's death. The photograph of Grant Jackson's singing there is dated June 1947. The photographs are much clearer than those published in the Atlanta Constitution on June 26, 1947. Laid in is a 20 page booklet "The Story of the Warm Springs Foundation" which not only features President Franklin Delano Roosevelt but lists all the Medical Doctors, Therapists, and administrators. (Program laid in June 20, 1947 with Josephus Daniels, Secretary of Navy, and other dignitaries with Graham Jackson presenting a medley of Franklin D. Roosevelt's favorite songs. See picture on lower right hand corner p. 17. A newspaper excerpt shows Florence Carr, Physical Therapist, massaging a leg of a polio patient and Margaret Knott who are now at the Vallejo at the Kabat-Kaiser Institute. Dr. Herman Kaibat, also noted are Ruth Rich, a speech therapist; Dorothy Rosenberg, an occupational therapist, Another newspaper excerpt reports on the newly relocated institute also dealt with multiple sclerosis. Here are identified: Edith Johnson, Supervisor of Ward H; Hedda Berthold, Chief Nurse; Rosalie Hayes, a nurse at Ward H. Buildings in Warm Springs in the background include Seals Brothers, McDaniel Jewelry, Gayworth's; M. Burg Clothing; There are photographs of men in wheelchairs who were their patients (not identified) The most interesting are the photographs of the Dedication of the Little White House after FDR's death. The photograph of Grant Jackson's singing there is dated June 1947. The photographs are much clearer than those published in the Atlanta Constitution on June 26, 1947. Also: Laid in is an 8 page quarto booklet of Albert Gold's paintings of Warm Springs that he completed for Abbott Laboratories. Included are: 13 paintings of patients being fitted for body casts, water therapy and the ever present wheel chairs. Albert Gold's paintings are also in the Smithsonian, the Philadelphia College of Art and many museums. Laid in is a 20 pages booklet "The Story of the Warm Springs Foundation" which not only features President Franklin Delano Roosevelt but lists all the Medical Doctors, Therapists, and administrators. (Program laid in June 20, 1947 with Josephus Daniels, Secretary of Navy, and other dignitaries with Graham Jackson presenting a medley of Franklin D. Roosevelt's favorite songs. See picture on lower right hand corner p. 17. A newspaper excerpt shows Florence Carr, Physical Therapist, massaging a leg of a polio patient and Margaret Knott who are now at the Vallejo at the Kabat-Kaiser Institute. Dr. Herman Kaibat, also noted are Ruth Rich, a speech therapist; Dorothy Rosenberg, an occupational therapist, Another newspaper excerpt reports on the newly relocated institute also dealt with multiple sclerosis. Here are identified: Edith Johnson, Supervisor of Ward H; Hedda Berthold, Chief Nurse; Rosalie Hayes, a nurse at Ward H. Buildings in Warm Springs in the background include Seals Brothers, McDaniel Jewelry, Gayworth's; M. Burg Clothing; There are photographs of men in wheelchairs who were their patients (not identified) The most interesting are the photographs of the Dedication of the Little White House after FDR's death. The photograph of Grant Jackson's singing there is dated June 1947. The photographs are much clearer than those published in the Atlanta Constitution on June 26, 1947. Also: The Wheelchair Review; Vol. II, no. 17 April 26, 1947. 10 leaves, mimeographed. A lists details of the several weeks of celebration beginning on April 12, 147. Prominent are Bail O'Connor, Fred Botts as well as Rev. J.C. Wilson. With notes patients now able to have wheelchairs on deck. p. 5 lists the names of new arrivals and their ages, some were early teen, several in military, one a student nurse just ready to complete her last year of training. Page 6 lists twelve new nurses two who had recovered from polio. Pages 8-9 lists all the six new policies for patient care. Page 10 lists the celebrities who had contracted polio and details their daily treatment (basically, the same as the other patients with some special attention). Page 10 lists the church services and movies three nights a week (mostly film noir).