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[Saranac Lake, reception hospital, Adirondacks, N.Y.] – Antique Wall Art

[Saranac Lake, reception hospital, Adirondacks, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Saranac Lake, reception hospital, Adirondacks, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Adirondacks collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Saranac Lake, reception hospital, Adirondacks, N.Y.]

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Few villages in the Adirondacks are as closely tied to tuberculosis care as Saranac Lake, and this view shows its reception hospital, where newly arrived patients were received and assessed before being sent on to cottages or boarding houses. The village drew people from across the country after Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau began treating patients there in the 1880s, believing that fresh air and rest could help the disease. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made large-format views of resorts, towns and scenery for travelers and railroads, recorded the village in the years before 1920, so the picture captures a community built around the cure.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 5379" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036955. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHospitals.United States--New York (State)--Adirondack Mountains.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68260

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