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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 15, 2020
Caption: St. Vincent Healthcare Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (upper left) In 1930, Ernest Hemingway spent seven weeks at St. Vincent Hospital recovering from injuries sustained in a car accident. Hemingway's story "The Gambler, The Nun and the Radio" is based on this experience.; (bottom left) Print advertisement for the original St. Vincent Hospital, 1919.; (bottom center L) Marillac Hall (foreground left) opened in 1947 to provide classrooms and dormitories for nursing students at the Independent School of Nursing alongside St. Vincent Hospital.; (bottom center R) St. Vincent Cadet Nurses graduation class, 1945. The hospital nursing program trained nurses for Cadet Corp duty during World War II.; (bottom right) St. Vincent Hospital soon after opining its new facility in 1923 on North 30th Street, just north of downtown Billings.; (upper right) A polio pandemic occurred from 1916-1919. St. Vincent responded by opening an Orthopedic School to help treat children.
Submitted: March 13, 2021, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p572685
File Size: 3.228 Megabytes

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