Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter visits the Crippled Children's Society
- Description
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This image was taken by the Evening Standard on the 13th of February 1984 but was not published. It depicts former United States First Lady Rosalynn Carter during a visit to the Crippled Children’s Society in Main Street.
The caption on a published photograph read: "TWO special people, Ricci Bradey and Rosalynn Carter, share a special hug in Palmerston North this morning. The former United States first lady made a half-hour visit to the Crippled Children’s Society in Main Street where she charmed adults and children alike with her special brand of compassion.”
Rosalynn Carter (nee Smith) spent 5 decades advocating for causes in mental health and caregiving support among many others. Together with her husband, former President of the United States Jimmy Carter, she founded the Carter Center – which works today to foster world peace and health programmes. Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100 on 24 December 2024. Rosalynn passed a year earlier, on 19 November 2023.
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Relation
- 2017-20
- Date
- February 13, 1984
- Digitisation id
- 2025N_2027-20_Carter_042990_017
- Format
- B&W negative
- Held in
- Coolstore
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Creation
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- Manawatū Evening Standard
- Place
- Main Street, Palmerston North
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