Hospitals

Right Wing of Main Building, Philippine General Hospital, Manila, prior to reconstruction.

Right Wing of Main Building, Philippine General Hospital, Manila, after reconstruction under the Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946.

Quezon Memorial Hospital, Lucena, Quezon after restoration under the Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946.

Baguio General Hospital, Baguio City, during restoration under the Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946.

President Harry S. Truman (left) visits Charles Corte (right), an Acme Newspictures photographer, at Georgetown Hospital after unveiling a plaque in honor of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (left) visits with Corporal Jack W. Mitchell (right) at Letterman Army Hospital at Fort Mason, California.

Photo shows construction of the British-American hospital in Madrid, Spain. Ambassador Stanton Griffis had a hand in the development of the project.

Photo shows the British-American hospital under construction in Madrid, Spain. Ambassador Stanton Griffis had a hand in the development of this project.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, accompanied by First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, are greeted by a nurse at Research Hospital. President Johnson shakes hands with the nurse. Former President Harry S. Truman is hospitalized at Research at this time. President Johnson and Mrs. Johnson are here visiting the former President.

Partial view of a large, columned building and garden in front. Although not identified, it is believed to be located in Sochi, Russia near the Black Sea. It is probably a government sponsored sanitarium, one of several in that city at that time. Charles Thayer visited two while there. The individuals in view are not identified. According to Charles Thayer's curriculum vitae: "In 1955 I made an extended tour of European and Asiatic Russia and wrote a series for the Saturday Evening Post on post-Stalinist Soviet Union." It is believed that this picture was taken during that trip.