Sister Elizabeth Kenny examining a child and lecturing to visitors c.1945.

Elizabeth Kenny Institute, 1800 Chicago, Minneapolis. c.1943.

Sister Kenny Institute polio patients help Sister Kenny celebrate Institute's first birthday. December 1943.

Sister Kenny Institute staff helps Sister Kenny celebrate Institute's first birthday. December 1943.

Dedication ceremony, Elizabeth Kenny Institute, 1800 Chicago, Minneapolis. 12/17/1942.

Sister Kenny demonstrates her therapy techniques, c.1942. Her pioneering physical therapeutic approach to polio first received a positive response at the University of Minnesota and later shaped the standard treatment for polio.

Iron lung patient and staff, Sister Kenny Institute, Minneapolis. c.1942.

Overcrowded sleeping areas for patients, Fergus Falls State Hospital, 1948.

Piggeries and slaughter house, Fergus Falls State Hospital, Fergus Falls, c.1923.