Children's Hospital of Michigan photograph album, 1936,1938.

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Children's Hospital of Michigan photograph album, 1936,1938.

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Photograph album, 1936,1938, [36 pp.] of black and white photographs measuring 4x6 inches or 3.5x2.5 inches on black pages. The photographs document the hospital building, greenhouse, a bus, black and white children patients, and white nurses. The children are shown in groups, standing, sitting, in beds or wheelchairs, with walking supports, wearing casts and bandages, playing with toys, and often being held by nurses. One nurse holds a body brace. The front cover is leather and has "Snapshots" and "Lexington[,] Mich. on Lake Huron" stamped into it as well as two small water scenes, one with a fisherman in a boat. Written on the cover in black ink is "Children's Hospital, Farmington, Michigan". On the inside front cover, written in red ink, is "Children's Hospital 1936- Farmington, Mi." Most of the photographs of people, except one of Betty Ragan, are unidentified. One photograph of another nuse is dated 1938. A photograph of the hospital is also identified. Except for some pages being loose from the spine, the album is in excellent condition. The back cover is plain cardboard. Eight pages in the album are blank.

1 v. (in 1 folder) : ill.

Clarke Historical Library

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Ragan, Betty.

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The album was donated by Mrs. Betty Ragan of Mount Pleasant (Mich.), who worked at the hospital as a licensed practical nurse with heart patients and polio victims. A large collection (33.5 linear feet) of the administrative records of the hospital is housed at the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University. The following information is from the Reuther's finding aid for the collection. The hospital was founded in 1886 as the Children's Free Hospital Associati...

Children's Hospital of Michigan

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Located in Detroit, Mich. From the description of Records, 1886-1983. (Wayne State University). WorldCat record id: 28419760 ...