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Franklin D. Roosevelt's office at the "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia, the town in which he sought treatment for polio in 1924, nine years before he became U.S. president
The "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia, the town in which Franklin Roosevelt sought treatment for polio in 1924, nine years before he became U.S. president
Franklin Roosevelt's wheelchair in a hallway at the "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia, the town in which her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, sought treatment for polio in 1924, nine years before he became U.S. president
Gateway to the "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia, the town in which Franklin Roosevelt sought treatment for polio in 1924, nine years before he became U.S. president
Marine sentry post at the "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia, the town in which Franklin Roosevelt sought treatment for polio in 1924, nine years before he became U.S. president
Frankln D. Roosevelt's 1938 Ford convertible, displayed at the "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia, the town in which he sought treatment for polio in 1924, nine years before he became U.S. president
Elizabeth Shoumatoff's "Unfinished Portrait" of Franklin Roosevelt on a wall in the "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia, the town in which he sought treatment for polio in 1924, nine years before he became U.S. president
Bathroom at the "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia, the town in which Franklin D. Roosevelt sought treatment for polio in 1924, nine years before he became U.S. president
Art boutique in Warm Springs, Georgia, the town in which Franklin Roosevelt sought treatment for polio in 1924, nine years before he became U.S. president
Small ship sculpture in President Franklin Roosevelt's bedroom at the "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia, the town in which Roosevelt sought treatment for polio in 1924, nine years before he became U.S. president
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The town was a failing Victorian spa noted for therapy for yellow fever when FDR took a liking to it, eventually turning a little cottage into his southern office. A onetime assistant secretary of the navy, FDR loved ships and ship models.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5).
Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
In 2015, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website. It demanded payment of $120. This was how Highsmith came to learn that stock photo agencies Getty and Alamy had been sending similar threat letters and charging fees to users of her images, which she had donated to the Library of Congress for use by the general public at no charge. In 2016, Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs. “The defendants [Getty Images] have apparently misappropriated Ms. Highsmith’s generous gift to the American people,” the complaint reads. “[They] are not only unlawfully charging licensing fees … but are falsely and fraudulently holding themselves out as the exclusive copyright owner.” According to the lawsuit, Getty and Alamy, on their websites, have been selling licenses for thousands of Highsmith’s photographs, many without her name attached to them and stamped with “false watermarks.” (more: http://hyperallergic.com/314079/photographer-files-1-billion-suit-against-getty-for-licensing-her-public-domain-images/)