Condition: Very Good. Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos)! Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Cover: clean, bright, small bumping at front bottom corner and back bottom edge, otherwise, very good edges. Includes DVD disc in back, with a few slight scuffs. Ships from California. Ships same or next day (weekdays and Saturdays)! ABOUT THIS: Historical Prologue 

City of Hope, founded in 1913 by a volunteer movement, is internationally recognized for its programs of patient care, research and treatment in cancer and other major diseases. Today's City of Hope is far removed from its beginning as two tents in the southern California desert. 

Located in Duarte, California, in metropolitan Los Angeles, City of Hope was first a haven for those stricken with tuberculosis, the great scourge in the early 1900s. It was a city of tents, later to become a village of clapboard cottages and subsequently buildings of brick and mortar. It would grow to some 200 acres comprising over 150 buildings. Research soon became a key ingredient of its master plan. A new state of the art hospital stands as a tribute to its personalized patient care. 

How did this volunteer movement start? It began as a grass roots effort in the garment district of downtown Los Angeles. Sam Cook, a tailor from Eastern Europe, would set up shop in a two-story building. He did his tailoring on the first floor and rented out rooms on the second floor. A young 21-year old tailor from St. Louis would rent a room. Bearing the brunt of tuberculosis, he was sick, penniless, jobless and friendless. One morning, he would fire a gun, taking his own life at the shop's front door. Passers-by would actually see the event take place. Cook went into his shop and brought out a United States flag. He asked four people to each take a corner of the flag, and they walked through the neighborhood telling people what had happened. Complete strangers tossed money onto the flag. The contributions were used for his burial. 

The one constant, since its meager beginning in two old canvas army tents—one for a nurse, the other for the first two tuberculosis patients—was a massive volunteer movement. This family of untiring support4rs stretched 

from New York to Los Angeles and all points in between. They met the challenge of raising hundreds of millions of dollars to help wage the battle against tuberculosis and subsequently cancer in all its forms. In the early 1950s a meeting of volunteers would change the direction of the institution. Volunteers voted unanimously to "take on cancer". 

Thus, began the story of what would become City of Hope. First it was known as the Los Angeles Sanatorium. Eventually it would officially adopt its new name—what everyone already knew—City of Hope. It was complete with its own dairy, vegetable gardens and nursery for plants and flowers. City of Hope has always believed strongly that environment plays a major role in a patient's recovery. 

Many people of prominence added their voices in support of this center of health and healing. Eleanor Roosevelt would come to visit in the 1930s to personally see why this institution was receiving such laudable and well deserved recognition. 

In 1983, Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II would come to dedicate British pediatric research laboratories. Several millions of dollars were raised by the British community in Southern California to establish the laboratories. It was the Queen's first and only visit to the West Coast of the United States. In gratitude, City of Hope sent the bare root rose "City of Hope" to Buckingham Palace Gardens. 

In its second century, City of Hope continues to bring renewed health and hope to countless thousands world-wide. 

Joe Broady Archivist Emeritus, City of Hope