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Bernarr Macfadden Health Home, c. 1907

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dc.coverage.temporal Battle Creek. Michigan, circa 1907 en_US
dc.identifier.other LPC-006-011-004 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.willardlibrary.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/9181
dc.description Postcard showing photo of the Bernarr Macfadden Health Home; building constructed as Phelps Medical and Surgical Sanatorium in 1899 on N. Washington Avenue by Neil and Oscar Phelps. Later the building became the Macfadden Health Home Sanatorium (1907-09), the headquarters of C. W. Post's Trades and Workers Association, and finally it was bought by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, operating as the Battle Creek Sanitarium Annex before becoming the main Sanitarium facility in 1942. Caption on front: Sanitarium Battle Creek, Mich Written on front: Jan 30th 1907 Dear Carrie, yours rc'd last night. I am able to sit up a little, but tremble so I can hardly write. Am very weak can not sit alone yet. do not trouble [illegible] with above as he does not call any more. Your mother, L. G. Sent to: Miss Carrie B. Partridge Hamilton Mich. R.F.D. No 3 Sent on: January 30, 1907 en_US
dc.format.extent 300 dpi tif.; xxx KB en_US
dc.format.medium b&w postcard en_US
dc.language.iso En en_US
dc.subject Macfadden, Bernarr. en_US
dc.subject Phelps Medical and Surgical Sanatorium en_US
dc.subject National Trades and Workers Association en_US
dc.subject Battle Creek Sanitarium en_US
dc.subject B.C Sanitarium Annex en_US
dc.title Bernarr Macfadden Health Home, c. 1907 en_US
dc.type Image en_US


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