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After a variety of uses, this small island in Long Island Sound first was used as a mass cemetery following the Civil War. It quickly became a burial ground for New York's indigent, then its uses expanded rapidly: a quarantine area during times of…

Public health poster created by Chicago's Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium depicts that disease as a collective responsibility: it depended upon everyone get a TB test. In colors leaning heavily toward the American flag, and eight children…

Founded in 1968, this community arts organization is located on the Mount Morris, NY campus that once had been a tuberculosis hospital (specifically a suite of doctors' residences pictured here). During the 1930s, and before the development of…