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Source Collection
Grover Edward McCarver memorial collection, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0466.004_OtherHospitals.002.jpg
Description
In the 1900s tuberculosis was one of the leading causes of death in Shelby County. That number was drastically reduced with the establishment of the state run West Tennessee Tuberculosis Hospital in 1948.
Date Created
6-17-2021
Date
circa 1955
Recommended Citation
"West Tennessee Tuberculosis Hospital, Memphis, TN, c. 1955" (2021). Postcards. 98.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-mccarver1/98
Keywords
Postcards--Tennessee--Memphis, Postcards--20th century, Memphis (Tenn.)--photographs
