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Postcard 1933 Linen Lutheran Sanitarium Wheat Ridge Colorado Tuberculosis
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Linen · 1933

Postcard 1933 Linen Lutheran Sanitarium Wheat Ridge Colorado Tuberculosis

Wheat Ridge, Colorado, USA1933LinenFair-Good

Stately granite walls rise behind a manicured lawn of deep emerald, early-model automobiles parked in the curved drive giving the only hint that this serene campus near Denver once housed hundreds of tuberculosis patients seeking Colorado's famous healing altitude. The Lutheran Sanitarium at Wheat Ridge was one of the foremost TB treatment facilities in the West, advertising heliotherapy, mountain air, and "skilled physicians of wide experience" on the card's own reverse. Mailed in May 1933 from St. Clair Shores, Michigan, the writer — a man named H.V. — sends a warm, practical note to a woman named "Mrs. Wm. Stringer" at 601 14th St., Port Huron, Michigan: "Will attend a Men's Club Rally in Port Huron on Sunday. Will bring the family along. If it is all right, we will come over to your house for supper. Will drop the family off earlier in the afternoon." A casual Sunday supper invitation turned into a time capsule of Depression-era Midwestern family life.

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PC-03947 · Mountain Publishing Co., Denver, CO
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