Photograph of the memorial in the U.S. Memorial Hospital, St. Lawrence, 1988
color photograph
PHOTOGRAPHSCanada, Newfoundland (province), Saint Lawrence
1988
emulsion on photographic paper
overall: 3-1/2 x 5 in.
Photograph; color photograph of the memorial plaque in the U.S. Memorial Hospital, St. Lawrence, 1988; plaque on left lists the survivors and the men who lost their lives, photograph of the POLLUX (built 1939) on right; handwritten on back "Lobby/ Clinic-/ Newfndland"; from Henry Strauss transcript in Sound Archives: "This was ... to thank the people of Lawn and St. Lawrence, Roosevelt built a hospital in St. Lawrence and the picture is of the POLLUX and billboard lists the survivor[s] and the men who lost their lives on the POLLUX." In gratitude for the heroic effort that the residents of St. Lawrence displayed in one of the greatest naval disasters ever, the U.S. donated the U.S. Memorial Hospital to the people of St. Lawrence which opened in 1954.
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