Fresh-air schools

dc.date.accessioned	2019-09-25T15:48:41Z
dc.date.available	2019-09-25T15:48:41Z
dc.date.issued	0000-00-00
dc.identifier.uri	http://dspace.willardlibrary.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/1000000550
dc.description	Students of a "fresh air school" attend to their studies in this photograph published in the Enquirer and News on March 13, 1977. Fresh-air schools, known also as open-air schools, were designed to prevent and combat the widespread rise of tuberculosis and became popular throughout the state and nation. The schools were built on the concept that fresh air contributed to improved health. Students attending the schools were provided with blankets and felt boots to keep warm. In February 1914, Willard Library hosted speaker Josephine Goss of Grand Rapids, known as the "mother of modern health school," to extol the benefits of these open-air schools. The classroom photographed was in a building next to the former Lincoln School on West Van Buren Street. The school opened in 1914, largely through the efforts of Drs. John Harvey Kellogg, Arthur S. Kimball, Samuel Gorsline and Henry Harvey.	en_US
dc.format.medium	4x5 BW negative
dc.subject	schools tuberculosis	en_US
dc.title	Fresh-air schools	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US
dc.description.envelope	SCHOOLS: BATTLE CREEK 1914-1933 FRESH AIR SCHOOL
dc.description.photographer	Submitted
dc.description.taxonomy	Education\|Local Schools	en_US