And Now the Liberty Hospital 



Dr. Osbom's plan contemplates sectional struc- 

 tures adaptable for dwelling purposes after the war 



WE have the Liberty Motor and the 

 Liberty Truck and now we are to 

 have the Liberty Hospital. Here- 

 tofore hospital 

 buildings have 

 not served any 

 purpose after 

 their usefulness 

 during war. 

 The new Lib- 

 erty Hospital 

 as designed by 

 Dr. Henry 

 Fairfield 

 Osborn, Presi- 

 dent of the 

 American Mu- 

 seum of Nat- 

 ural History, 

 may be con- 

 verted into 

 dwellings when 

 the war is over. 



A complete 

 model of this 

 hospital was 

 constructed by 

 Mr. H. F. 

 Beers, Superin- 

 tendent of 

 Construction 

 of the Ameri- 

 can Museum of 

 Natural His- 

 tory. The miniature hospital is complete 

 in every detail. The side sections can be 

 pushed out from their accustomed align- 

 ment into a small track at the top of the 

 outer walls on which they can be shoved 

 entirely out of the way. On warm sunny 

 days, the wards of the hospital can thus be 

 exposed, or the panels may be so manip- 

 ulated as to screen half of the length of 

 the wall. 



The hospital will be built in five foot 

 units. On one side, and on one end are 

 large porches. The supports of the 

 porches are held in place by devices 

 similar to steel hooka which are used in 

 joining together the joints of old fashioned 

 beds. The veranda roof is made of 



Showing how the panels may be slid one over the 

 other if it is desirable to open up one side of the 

 hospital. Each of the side sections has two windows 



The model of the New Liberty Hospital as designed 

 by Dr. Osborn, of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, and constructed by Mr. H. F. Beers 



canvas and can be rolled up and unrolled 



as easily as can the ordinary awning. 



The end panels are four feet, nine inches 



by eight feet, 

 and the side 

 panels are five 

 feet wide by 

 seveti feet 

 deep . The 

 floor is m.ade 

 in sections 

 of five by 

 seven feet 

 and the ceil- 

 ing panels 

 have the same 

 dimensions. 

 The material 

 which is to be 

 used in these 

 hospitals is 

 cedar, a wood 

 which should 

 last for fifty 

 years. The 

 roof trusses are 

 of steel. They 

 are so hinged 

 that they can 

 be folded into 

 a remarkably 

 small compass 

 which makes 

 transportation 



both easy and comparatively inexpensive. 

 The hospital itself may be heated by 



After the war — a cozy dwelling made from 

 a detached section of the Liberty Hospital 



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