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Selections from the records of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, 1924-1974

Black-and-white photographs, annual reports, newsletters, and motion pictures depicting Georgia Warm Springs Foundation as a health resort and its role in polio treatment research and rehabilitation for the disabled from 1924 to 1974.
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Date of Original
1921/1982
Subject
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Homes and haunts
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
Arnall, Ellis Gibbs, 1907-1992
Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
Carter, Rosalynn
Hayes, Helen, 1900-1993
Peabody, George Foster, 1852-1938
O'Connor, Basil, 1892-1972
Salk, Jonas, 1914-1995
Business enterprises owned by people with disabilities--Georgia--Warm Springs
Georgia Warm Springs Foundation
Georgia. Division of Rehabilitation Services
Health facilities--Georgia--Warm Springs
Hydrotherapy--Georgia--Warm Springs
Little White House (Warm Springs, Ga.)
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
Medical personnel--Georgia--Warm Springs
Medical rehabilitation--Georgia--Warm Springs
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
Occupational therapy--Georgia--Warm Springs
Orthopedic apparatus--Georgia--Warm Springs
People with disabilities--Care--Georgia--Warm Springs
People with disabilities--Education--Georgia--Warm Springs
People with disabilities--Health and hygiene--Georgia--Warm Springs
People with disabilities--Institutional care--Georgia--Warm Springs
People with disabilities--Recreation--Georgia--Warm Springs
People with disabilities--Rehabilitation--Georgia--Warm Springs
People with disabilities--Vocational guidance--Georgia--Warm Springs
Physical therapy for children--Georgia--Warm Springs
Physical therapy--Georgia--Warm Springs
Poliomyelitis--Georgia--Warm Springs
Poliomyelitis--Nursing--Georgia--Warm Springs
Poliomyelitis--Patients--Georgia--Warm Springs
Poliomyelitis--Patients--Rehabilitation
Poliomyelitis--Research--Georgia--Warm Springs
Poliomyelitis--Surgery
Poliomyelitis--Treatment--Georgia--Warm Springs
Poliomyelitis--United States--Societies, etc.
Presidents--United States
Recreation areas and people with disabilities--Georgia--Warm Springs
Recreation--Georgia--Warm Springs
Rehabilitation--Georgia--Warm Springs
Roosevelt Warm Springs Foundation
Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation
Self-help devices for people with disabilities--Georgia--Warm Springs
Sports for people with disabilities--Georgia--Warm Springs
Students with disabilities--Georgia--Warm Springs
Surgical instruments and apparatus--Georgia--Warm Springs
Swimming for people with disabilities--Georgia--Warm Springs
Warm Springs (Ga.)--History
Wheelchair dance sport--Georgia--Warm Springs
Wheelchair dancers--Georgia--Warm Springs
Wheelchair sports--Georgia--Warm Springs
Location
United States, Georgia, Meriwether County, Warm Springs, 32.89041, -84.68104
Medium
aerial photographs
annual reports
black-and-white photographs
corporation reports
newsletters
photographs
records (documents)
Type
Still Image, Text
Description
Description: Selections from the Records of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, 1924-1974 online collection consists of 207 black-and-white photographs, 45 annual reports, 26 issues of the Polio Chronicle newsletter published by patients of the Foundation, and 3 sponsored films, all held by the Roosevelt Warm Springs Vocational Rehabilitation Campus in Warm Springs, Georgia. Founded by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1927 as the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, the Roosevelt Warm Springs Vocational Rehabilitation Campus these materials document the evolution of the Foundation from a health resort in the 1920s to a comprehensive rehabilitation center in the 1970s; they also demonstrate the influence of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the growth of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation and its prominence in national polio research and treatment. Visual materials in the collection depict disabled patients, rehabilitative treatment and adaptive technologies for the disabled, fundraising events for polio research, facilities and services available to patients and guests at the Foundation, leisure activities at the Foundation, buildings on the Warm Springs campus, employees of the organization, and numerous photographs of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in residence at Warm Springs as a private citizen, as governor of New York, and as president of the United States. Other records provide information on the financial governance of the Foundation, facilities management, statistical information on patients admitted to the Foundation, and polio research. Notable people appear throughout the collection, including United States president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Georgia governor Jimmy Carter, Georgia first lady Rosalynn Carter, Georgia governor Ellis Arnall, actress Helen Hayes, medical researcher Jonas Salk, philanthropist George Foster Peabody, and co-founder of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Basil O'Connor.
Language
eng
Holding Institution
Roosevelt Warm Springs Vocational Rehabilitation Campus