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The Frances A. Hellebrandt Collection, Accession #87/Jul/34, Special Collections and Archives, Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
The collection focuses on Hellebrandt's work with the Baruch Center for Physical Medicine. It contains annual reports, course descriptions, and documents related to the operation of the Center. Also included are several reprints of articles written by Hellebrandt and her staff on the subject of physical medicine. The collection does not contain any information regarding Hellebrandt's research or work apart from the Center.
Frances Anna Hellebrandt was born 26 Aug, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. Being good at science, she earned a BA in Physical Education and a MD from the University of Wisconsin by 1929. Hellebrandt held several faculty positions in Anatomy and Physiology at Wisconsin before accepting a research grant at the Clinic for Sportsmen at Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia from 1937-38.
She returned to Wisconsin and began to specialize in physical rehabilitation. By 1943, she had become chairman of the physical therapy department at Wisconsin. Due to the growing need for physical rehabilitation as solders return from the war, the Woman's Army Corps selected Wisconsin as a site for emergency physical therapy training. In 1944, Hellebrandt accepted a position to head the newly created Baruch Center for Physical Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia.
Hellebrandt brought most of her staff with her and founded a degree program in physical medicine at MCV, the first such facility in the South. After consolidating the department in South Hospital, Hellebrandt worked to make the Baruch Center the rehabilitation center for the State of Virginia. Hellebrandt returned to Chicago in 1951 to serve as professor and chair of physical medicine at the University of Illinois. Due to declining health, she retired in 1955. In 1957, finding retirement not to her liking, she started as a visiting lecturer, and then resumed a professorship at Wisconsin until her second retirement in 1964. She was awarded emeritus status that same year.
Hellebrandt authored over 150 scientific papers and served on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Physiology, and American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Along with Prof. L. Kelso, she created several research tools and devices still in use today. She served as a Trustee for the Easter Seals Research Foundation, and received the Anderson Award from the American Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation. The American Physiological Society's tum Suden/Hellebrandt Award is named in her honor.
Hellebrandt died 02 February, 1992 at the age of 90.
The collection is arranged by subject.
The collection was received as a gift from Dr. Suzanne Hirt.
This series contains annuals reports, curriculum plans, course outlines and the organization of the Baruch Center of Physical Medicine on the campus of the Medical College of Virginia.
This is a collection of items bound together containing the curriculum and academy course requirements. Items included are as follows:
Orientation Course
school curriculum
Bulletin MCV Vol. XLV No. 4
This folder contains the Center's annual report. It includes committee reports, staffing concerns and vacancies, department reports as well as financial and statistical data.
This folder contains the Center's annual report. It includes committee reports, staffing concerns and vacancies, department reports as well as financial and statistical data. It also includes a set of proposed blueprint drawings and the following article reprints:
Fischer, Skowlund, Bowers:
Moore,
Huff, Fischer:
Mueller, Summers:
Eubank, Houtz:
Hellebrandt,
Hellebrandt,
Hellebrandt,
Fischer,
Hellebrandt, American Medical Association Meting, Jun 1949.
Fischer,
Hellebrandt,
Houtz, Skowlund,
Hellebrandt,
Hellebrandt,
Fischer,
Hellebrandt,
Hellebrandt,
Hellebrandt,
Hellebrandt,
Hellebrandt,
Hellebrandt,
This folder contains curriculum notes as well as a course outlines for the following courses:
This folder contains correspondence and papers regarding the founding and initial creation of the curriculum.
This series contains articles and publications written by Hellebrandt
This folder contains the following articles:
Vol. 7, No. 3
Presentation to the American Congress of Physical Medicine
Evans,
Hellebrandt,
This folder contains the following articles and papers written by Hellebrandt:
Based upon,
Address given at the American Medical Association annual meeting, Jun 1951.
Address given at the American Hospital Association meeting, Nov 1954.
This folder contains Hellebrandt's curriculum vitae and index of publications.
This folder contains photographs of images, readings, charts and other media needed for print articles.
This folder contains snapshots of physical therapy procedures and methods. Mounted on heavy cardboard and numbered.
This folder contains photographs of the School of Physical Therapy staff and students. People listed include: Mary Lawrence, Suzanne Hirt, Dr. Ernst Fischer, Dorothy Leland, Helen Skowlund, Margaret Moore, Edith Vail, Ellen Duval, Sara Rogers, Sara Houtz, Ann Parrish, Florence Strayer, Dr. Walter Lee, Ruth Latimer, Robert Eubanks, Thelma Pederson, Ruby Scherer and Hellebrandt.
This series contains various items unconnected with the other series in this collection and is listed here.
This folder contains blueprinted plans for the school of physical therapy to be located on the 17 and 18th floor of the Medical College of Virginia's West Hospital.
This folder contains photocopies of several historical works in hydrotherapy and physical medicine. Also included are photocopies of historical book covers.
This folder contains the program for this annual meeting. Hellebrandt was involved with the YMCA and gave three addresses at this meeting.