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| Title | President's Birthday Ball, Civic Auditorium, Seattle, January 29, 1938 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1938 |
| Caption | The National Committee for Birthday Balls sponsored dances in towns across the nation to celebrate President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's birthday and raise money for the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, a hospital for polio patients founded by Roosevelt in 1927. The first Birthday Ball was held in 1934, with 4, 376 communities joining in 600 separate celebrations that raised over one million dollars for Warm Springs. Future Birthday Balls continued to raise about a million dollars per year, with contributions split between Warm Springs and the local communities where the balls were held. The Birthday Balls ended in 1945 with the death of President Roosevelt, but their legacy lives on in the March of Dimes.
In this photo, dancers at the President's Birthday Ball fill the floor of Seattle's Civic Auditorium. |
| Notes | Handwritten on image: President's Ball
Caption information source: FDR Presidential Library website (http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/aboutfdr/birthday.html)
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): January 29, 1938 |
| Subjects | Auditoriums--Washington (Staet)--Seattle; Balls (Parties)--Washington (State)--Seattle; Dance--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States—Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.6502.1 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from film positive as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4. |
