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Photograph was edited for publication purposes. The Orthopedic Hospital, founded by Charles LeRoy Loman in 1911, began as a clinic for children with crippling disorders and was originally located on Figueroa Street. In 1922 the first hospital was completed, and was located on Ord Street; it was replaced 37 years later, in 1959, with a second, larger hospital that was located at 2400 S. Flower Street. When Dr. Lowman established this hospital, he was the only orthopedic specialist (also sp. "orthopaedic") between San Francisco to New Orleans, and due to the fact that the field was so new, he invented many treatments himself. One of these 'inventions' was to turn a fishpond on the Orthopedic Hospital grounds into a therapy pool for children with polio - two years before Franklin D. Roosevelt, a polio sufferer, discovered the 88-degree waters at Warm Springs, Georgia. Since then, the orthopaedic program has dramatically grown to the point where the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital (as it is now named) sees more children with potentially crippling disorders than any other facility in the United States, and a third, yet larger hospital, is currently under construction. Photograph caption dated December 9, 1959 reads, "Santa Claus, enacted by H. W. (Babe) Schmidt, is coming early this year to delight children at Orthopaedic Hospital. He and Mmes. Philip Busse and Edward Herber are stuffing his bag with toys to be given to children at North Hollywood Junior Woman's Club's hospital Christmas party Tuesday afternoon at hospital."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
North Hollywood Junior Woman's Club Orthopaedic Hospital Associations, institutions, etc.--California--Los Angeles Committees--California--Los Angeles Gifts--California--Los Angeles Toys--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Women--Societies and clubs Christmas presents Christmas--Miscellanea Costumes Santa Claus North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs Portrait photographs Group portraits
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