Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes the often-fatal infectious disease Tuberculosis, and infects approximately one third of the world's population. Gaining a better understanding of how these bacteria regulate gene expression for intracellular...
Women--Kentucky--Louisville; Social reformers--Kentucky--Louisville--History; Morel, Louise C., b. 1871
Louise C. Morel was a leading social reformer in Louisville from 1917 through the early 1940s. Morel's work is a primary example of the continuation of Progressive Era ideals into the decades after the traditional end of the Progressive Era....
Address: 431 W. Liberty Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Two men exit the Louisville Tuberculosis Association building carrying boxes adorned with posters. The posters show a Santa Claus face, the double-barred cross symbol of the Tuberculosis...
People; Signs (Notices); Tuberculosis; Boy Scouts of America; Uniforms; Boys; Group portraits
Boy Scouts pose for a group portrait as they hold signs for an anti-tuberculosis campaign sponsored by the Louisville Tuberculosis Association. They read: "Consider the health of children. Dont spit." "Obey the law and be a good...
Address: 522 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A woman peers in the window of Ben Snyder's department store. Three men are inside giving a demonstration for the Louisville Tuberculosis Association. One man stands with his shirt off and chest...
Address: 235 E. Chestnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. An iron gate separates the small lawn of the Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Clinic from the sidewalk. Two trees in the yard have the bottom portion of their trunks painted white. The three story...
Buildings; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Tuberculosis
Two, connected buildings of the Henderson County Tuberculosis (TB) Hospital. The building on the right has first and second floor porches where people rest.
Buildings; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Sanatoriums; Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis sanatorium, Hazelwood Sanatorium, Louisville, Kentucky. White, faceted and gridded two story building with large dormers; large, dark windows; and a fire escape. In the background is an area forested with leafy trees. A drive leads up...
Buildings; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Sanatoriums; Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis sanatorium, Hazelwood Sanatorium, Louisville, Kentucky. White, faceted and gridded two story building with large dormers; large, dark windows; and a fire escape. In the background is an area forested with leafy trees. A drive leads up...
Buildings; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Sanatoriums; Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis sanatorium, Hazelwood Sanatorium, Louisville, Kentucky. Close up of white, faceted and gridded two story building with large dormers; large, dark windows; and a fire escape. There are canopies over some of the windows on both the first...
Fire fighters; Fire stations; Fire engines; Automobiles; Uniforms; Hats; Clock towers; Historic buildings; People; Transportation; Buildings
Address: 617-621 West Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This street scene shows a fire engine coming out of Steam Engine Co. #2 and fire department headquarters as onlookers watch. Above the fire engine bay a sign says, "STOP, Caution,...
Waverly Hills Sanatorium (Louisville, Ky.); Health care facilities; Men; Dentistry; People
This photograph shot at Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Hospital shows a man sitting near a hospital bed as he inserts a tool into his mouth and looks into a makeshift mirror. The man is dressed in a thermal shirt, vest, and hat and sits backward on a...
Waverly Hills Sanatorium (Louisville, Ky.); Hospitals; Nurses; Sick persons; Health care facilities; Tuberculosis; People
Five beds are shown on a sunny porch. Each bed has a patient under white blankets. Nurses stand nearby, as does a man in a dark suit. This may have been taken at the Waverly Hills Sanatorium on Dixie Highway, which was the largest tuberculosis...
Health care facilities; Hospitals; Sanatoriums; Tuberculosis; Social workers; Sick persons; Waverly Hills Sanatorium (Louisville, Ky.)
Social workers visiting tuberculosis patient at Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Louisville, Kentucky. Inside the sanatorium, women lie on their backs on white sheeted beds in a row in a narrow room with a brick wall on the right and many doors on the...
Location: Dixie Highway, Pleasure Ridge Park. When it opened in 1911, Waverly Hills Sanatorium housed only eight patients. The design of the building is in keeping with theories of the time regarding the efficacy of a rural setting and atmosphere...
Waverly Hills Sanatorium (Louisville, Ky.); Health care facilities; Buildings; Sanatoriums; Historic buildings
Address: 8101 Dixie Highway, Louisville, Kentucky. Several vehicles are parked in front of the Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Three slightly arched doorways are framed in stone for the main entrance. This motif repeats on the sides of the entry...
Students; Teachers; Classrooms; Schools; People; Health
Children in hooded robes sit at desks reading from books. The wood and iron desks are fashioned so that the seat of one desk is attached to the desk behind it. A woman in black observes the children. In between and behind the desks are a bunch of...
Children lie in neat rows on cots at the Camp Taylor School in what is now Louisville, Kentucky. Each has a wool blanket. The windows are open and there is a row of lockers along the back wall with potted flowers on top.
Waverly Hills Sanatorium (Louisville, Ky.); Buildings; Sanatoriums; Health care facilities; Historic buildings
Address: 8101 Dixie Highway, Louisville, Kentucky. Waverly Hills Sanatorium stands on a slight hill surrounded by bare trees. A small outbuilding stands in the mid-ground. Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanatorium was added to the National Register of...
