Description:
Postcard showing color photo of the 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: Battle Creek Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Michigan - 43
Caption on back: The Battle Creek Sanitarium, in addition to restoring health and teaching correct habits of living to thousands from all over the world, annually, has also trained and sent to remote, uncivilized lands, numerous medical missionaries.
Written on back: Dear Belle: We are living here at Long Lake. I hope to go back, when I can get gas. I've been over here for an examination. I think I'll live. Hope to see you one of these days. Will write again. Love, Florence.
Sent to: Mrs. Belle Smith Kalamazoo, Mich. R.4
Sent on: August 9, 1925