26 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 5.16
THE
BIT
A BIT OF HISTORY
FROM U OF L
ARCHIVES
AND SPECIAL
COLLECTIONS
You're looking at a ward of physically disabled pediatric patients
being entertained by circus performers at Kosair Crippled Children
Hospital, located on Eastern Parkway in Schnitzelburg, between
Burnett Avenue and Lydia Street. It's 1928 and cases of poliomyelitis
are rampant, having probably provided the impetus for opening
the orthopedic-specialized hospital two years earlier. The iron lung
would appear in a year's time, but a polio vaccine was still decades
away. In 1981 KCCH merged with downtown's Louisville Children's
Hospital, the South's frst pediatric hospital facility, which was
founded in 1892.
Do you know
this location?
Send us an email (editorial@loumag.com, subject: Where
Am I?). We'll publish the correct answer next month.
WHERE
AM I?
Photo
by
Terrence
Humphrey
Last month: Matt Ruben, who lives in
the Original Highlands, was the frst
reader to correctly identify the horse
at the corner of Swan and Breckenridge
streets, on the edge of Germantown. "I
think it's chasing that shark in front of
Hammerheads," Ruben says.
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