Hospitals

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.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (right) pauses in an unofficial tour of the United States Hospital, Camp Edwards, Massachusetts to chat with 2nd Lieutenant Leo B. Eldridge, a Korean veteran double amputee. Looking on is Captain Sue G. Carey, Army Nurse Corps.

Interior view of dining area in what was once the palace and at time of photograph a state sanitarium. W. Averell Harriman is standing in the center of the photograph with his wife Marie to the left of him. Identified by Thayer in his typewritten account of the trip as "the Conference Hall of the Yalta Conference, now a gleaming white dining room." Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).