G. J. P. Barger, M.D., 
1125 Buchanan St., N.W. Arlansas Avenue Community Association 
Washington, 11, D.C. Annual Tour of Homes & Gardens. 
Phone : RAndolph 3 ”■4464 Saturday liay 1, 1954 
2 to 6 p.m. 
This home is at the same time an office and work shop for the practice of my 
medical specialty: PHYSICAL JiEDICINE & REHABILITATION. 
I taught this subject for 9 years at Georgetown University Hospital & Medical 
School,^ up until the age of retirement at 65 yrs., which was in 1946. 
A reprint entitled "Physical Itierapy in a General Practice" is available 
briefly siimmarizing the scope of my practice, if you desire to read it. 
aSome lantern slides xm the automatic balopticon 
present some of the ideas applicable in this field, 
and some illustration of the technics and equipment used. 
Then we practice here the following HOBBIES, 
as a source of pleasure and social life. 
1. photography . 
This has been a hobby for more than 50 years. 
We have a classified vertical file of photos of our family life 
back to our own early youth, 
thru the course of our married life, 
thru 15 yrs. of experience as medical & printing missionaries in Belgian Congo - 
of our travel around the world in 1931, 
of our life and work in Washington since 1932, 
of our growing family of two giils and two boys in their own homes, 
and of the nine grandchildren. 
Until recent years we did developing, printing, enlarging, 
but now limit our part to the taking of photos. 
Some of our African photos are shorn in the automatic balopticon. 
2. PRINTING. 
Mrs. Barger was a professional printer in her early life up to our marriage. in 1908/ 
In our mission work in Belgian Congo she was placed in charge of the printing 
plant and book binding. 
Here in the U.S. we acquired a small printing press from a church 
whose bulletin she printed for a time, 
and have added proper type cases and rack, 
which may be seen in the basement. 
It is now used for our own personal and professional printing, 
and as^a hobby, for the various organizations to which we belong & friends. 
With it ^ she has recently set up the road numbers and map names 
and printed them on stickup paper, which are then cut out and pasted 
one ^ by one on the maps on which we are working for the P.A.T.C., 
which may be seeni in this exhibit. 
GENEAOLOGY of BARGER FAMILY. 
We are custodians of the geneaology files of the Barger tribe thruout the U.S., 
urecently acquired from an old member of the family 
who has for more than 40 years been collecting Barger family data, 
and who has published a volume about the family. 
It is my task to carry on. 
One of my projects is the summarizing of family data in FAl'OLY TREE CHARTS, 
copy of which is in the exhibit. 
^another is a periodical family Mews Letter which we hope to start this yr. 
In the middle room are my geneaology files, 
a drop leaf work table which may be set up for sitting or standing work, 
and a vertical file for large charts. 
