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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…

Poster promoting better health care through the prevention of tuberculosis by better eating and sleeping habits, and more exposure to sunshine.

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…

A line of children lay in a row receiving treatment for tuberculosis. They are horizontal and outside, which was a part of the Brehmer method of treatment.

A site plan of the Iola Tuberculosis Sanatorium, circa 1959. Includes building labels and utility tunnel locations.