Coming soon: new Lawson General Hospital photos

I’m returning to the subject of Lawson General Hospital next week, one of my favorite local history topics.

A wonderful collection of photos was shared with me by the family of Morris J. Volpp. He contracted rheumatic fever while serving in the National Guard in 1941. These photos are not large group photos, but pictures of Volpp and a few other patients on the campus of Lawson General Hospital. The photographs were taken when his parents and a brother went to Lawson to visit him and give a good representation of how the hospital looked in its early years.

More on Volpp and the photograph collection next week, but here is one special photo.

Morris Volpp in the center wearing a robe, with two of his pals from Lawson General Hospital Ward B-5. Photo is from Volpp’s family.