- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Tuberculosis Sanatorium
- Publisher:
- Abercrombie, Thomas Franklin. History of Public Health in Georgia, 1733-1950. Atlanta: Georgia. Dept. of Public Health, 1950, p. 84.
- Date of Original:
- 1911
- Subject:
- Sanatoriums--Georgia--Alto
Tuberculosis--Hospitals--Georgia--Alto
Buildings--Georgia--Alto
Porches--Georgia--Alto
Public health--Georgia--Alto
Nurses--Georgia--Alto
Tuberculosis--Georgia--Alto
Tuberculosis--Patients--Georgia--Alto
Alto (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc. - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Banks County, Alto, 34.46732, -83.57378
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In 1911 the state of Georgia opened a public sanatorium in Banks County for the treatment of tuberculosis. The sanatorium was the state's most ambitious health project up to that time, and marked a new interest in public health, a product of the Progressive era.
Photograph of a public tuberculosis sanatorium, located in Alto, Georgia, in Banks County. A porch runs along the front of the dark wooden-frame building. A nurse and several patients stand on the porch. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/banks-county/m-10693/
- Rights Holder:
- From History of Public Health in Georgia, 1733-1950, by T. F. Abercrombie
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/progressive-era
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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