Object ID:
2007.33.1.133-136
Title:
Scenes from Hines Blindness Rehabilitation Center
Date:
ca. 1951
Description:
Four (4) BW prints.
.133 Hospital corridor, doors open wide in foreground. Caption: "Inelegant and invaluable… the corridor bisecting the Hines Center. It connects with a network of such corridors incomparable for early training in mobility, and leading ultimately to the outer world. A training resource at both Valley Forge and Hines, it is an architectural advantage of longitudinal architecture, perhaps more useful than any structure ever designed for training blind people. Against the inroads of vertical architecture such corridors might well merit protection from a society for preservation of the truly functional."
.134: Naron Ferguson in the workshop of the Hines Center with Stafford Chiles (right).
.135: Workshop for prevocational conditioning at the Hines Center.
.136: Naron Ferguson breaking in the Hines tandem bicycle with Joseph Romanko, Mobility instructor.
.133 Hospital corridor, doors open wide in foreground. Caption: "Inelegant and invaluable… the corridor bisecting the Hines Center. It connects with a network of such corridors incomparable for early training in mobility, and leading ultimately to the outer world. A training resource at both Valley Forge and Hines, it is an architectural advantage of longitudinal architecture, perhaps more useful than any structure ever designed for training blind people. Against the inroads of vertical architecture such corridors might well merit protection from a society for preservation of the truly functional."
.134: Naron Ferguson in the workshop of the Hines Center with Stafford Chiles (right).
.135: Workshop for prevocational conditioning at the Hines Center.
.136: Naron Ferguson breaking in the Hines tandem bicycle with Joseph Romanko, Mobility instructor.
Print Size:
8 x 10"
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Hines Center Corridor
Hines VA Center Workshop
Hines VA Center Workshop
Naron Ferguson & Joe Romanko on tandem bike
Hines Center Corridor
Hines VA Center Workshop
Hines VA Center Workshop
Naron Ferguson & Joe Romanko on tandem bike