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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

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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

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Originally named Bullochville for the Bulloch family of Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, mother of President Theodore Roosevelt and maternal grandmother of Franklin Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor, the town was a failing Victorian spa noted for therapy for yellow fever when Roosevelt took a liking to it, eventually turning a little cottage into his expanded southern office. FDR died of a massive stroke there while sitting for a portrait on April 12, 1945.
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/)

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