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The Blank Family: On the left: Mike, Jackie and (daughter) Bev Blank. On the right: A.H. and Anna Blank. A.H. and Anna Blank built Blank Children's Hospital in honor of their son Raymond, who died at age 33.
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The original Raymond Blank Memorial Hospital for Children - 1944 to 1979.
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Blank Children's Hospital was rebuilt and expanded in 1980.
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Blank Children's Hospital in the 1990s.
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Blank Children's Hospital was renovated and expanded in 2001.
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Caption as it appeared in the newspaper: This year as for many years, A.H. Blank, retired theater man and philanthropist, gave a Christmas party at Raymond Blank Memorial Hospital. He distributed individual gifts to the children and gave others for the hospital's play room. In return, Mary Jackson, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Jackson of Corydon, representing the patients, gave the 86-year old Blank a toy drum filled with cookies.
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During the polio epidemic, children were quarantined so parents were unable to visit. Because of that, parents got creative and visited their children through the hospital windows.
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Parents visiting their child from the outside of Blank Children's Hospital during the polio epidemic.
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Parents gather outside Blank Children's Hospital during the polio epidemic. Parents used ladders to climb up to the windows to visit their kids.
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A polio patient with a nurse.
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Machine known as the Iron Lung, which helped treat polio.
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The main entrance of Blank Children's Hospital. An artist paints on the glass.
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Myron "Mike" Blank, son of A.H. and Anna Blank, hands out gifts during a holiday party.
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Mike Blank with Santa at the holiday part in the play room at Blank Children's Hospital.
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Patient playing in his hospital bed at Blank Children's Hospital.
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