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Title: Ben Cortez and daughter
Identifier: e_rl_13918af_0008
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Tuberculosis
Dates: 1949
Box: 3Y183
Folder: left
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Ben Cortez with his daughter Rosario. She and her younger cousin sleep in the same room with Mr. Cortez who has been in bed with tuberculosis for four months. His wife had died in this house from the same disease the week before. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Ben Cortez in bed.
Identifier: e_rl_13918af_0011
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Tuberculosis
Dates: 1949
Box: 3Y183
Folder: left
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Ben Cortez who has been in bed at home for four months with tuberculosis. Two children, his young daughter and niece, sleep in the same room will him. The waste from this sick room is disposed of in an outdoor flush toilet which is used by twenty six persons.

Title: Daughter's clothing hanging above bed of Ben Cortez
Identifier: e_rl_13918af_0012
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Tuberculosis
Dates: 1949
Box: 3Y183
Folder: left
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Clothing belonging to his daughter hangs above the bed of Ben Cortez who has been in bed at home with tuberculosis for four months. With 8000 estimated cases in the county there is no available room in the twenty bed county hospital. Corpus Chirsti, Texas.

Title: Mrs. Estella Cortez
Identifier: e_rl_13918af_0004
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Tuberculosis
Dates: 1949
Box: 3Y183
Folder: left
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Mrs. Estella Cortez washing her hands before giving her brother-in-law a hypodermic in the treatment of tuberculosis. She was taught her technique by the family doctor (a Latin-American) who supplies drugs free of charge. She also nursed her brother-in-law's wife who had died the week before with tuberculosis. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: A seventy year old woman with tuberculosis.
Identifier: e_rl_13918af_0001
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Tuberculosis
Dates: 1949
Box: 3Y183
Folder: left
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A seventy year old woman who is sick with tuberculosis and ulcers (Her doctor's statement). She had been at Hill Top, the Nueces County tuberculosis sanitarium but came home, preferring to live alone in her one room house; relatives bring her one meal a day and her doctor furnishes care and medicines free of charge. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: A seventy year old woman with tuberculosis.
Identifier: e_rl_13918af_0002
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Tuberculosis
Dates: 1949
Box: 3Y183
Folder: left
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A seventy year old woman who is sick with tuberculosis and ulcers. She had been at Hill Top, the Nueces County tuberculosis sanitarium but came home, preferring to live alone in her one room house; relatives bring her one meal a day and her doctor furnishes care and medicines free of charge. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Tuberculosis patient Ben Cortez
Identifier: e_rl_13918ef_0015
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Tuberculosis
Dates: 1949
Box: 3Y183
Folder: left
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Ben Cortez who has been in bed at home for four months with tuberculosis. Corpus Christi, Texas.