Eagle Mountain Lake Marine Hospital

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20063554

Description

Seventeen little polio patients are being moved to the newly constructed Eagle Mountain Lake Marine Hospital. The hospital is a modern, brick facility given to the city by the United States Navy. The children will make the twenty-five mile journey in a real Navy ambulance. Pictured on a stretcher, left to right, are an unidentified girl, Lynda Allen (4.5 years), Don Fowler (2 years), and Charles Simpson (3 years). Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram morning edition, July 9, 1946.

Archival Date

1946-07-08

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-1896

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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License

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Subjects

Poliomyelitis; Hospitals; Eagle Mountain Lake Marine Hospital; Litters; Sick persons; United States. Department of the Navy; United States. Navy