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Title
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Ben Cortez and daughter
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Identifier
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e_rl_13918af_0008
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Creator
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Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
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Topic
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Latin Americans, Tuberculosis
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Dates
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1949
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Box
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3Y183
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Folder
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left
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Resource
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Russell Lee photograph collection
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Description
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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.
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Title
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Ben Cortez in bed.
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Identifier
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e_rl_13918af_0011
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Creator
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Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
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Topic
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Latin Americans, Tuberculosis
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Dates
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1949
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Box
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3Y183
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Folder
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left
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Resource
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Russell Lee photograph collection
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Description
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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.
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Title
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Daughter's clothing hanging above bed of Ben Cortez
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Identifier
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e_rl_13918af_0012
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Creator
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Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
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Topic
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Latin Americans, Tuberculosis
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Dates
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1949
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Box
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3Y183
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Folder
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left
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Resource
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Russell Lee photograph collection
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Description
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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.
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Title
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Estella Cortez gives her brother-in-law a hypodermic.
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Identifier
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e_rl_13918af_0009
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Creator
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Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
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Topic
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Latin Americans, Tuberculosis, Medical care
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Dates
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1949
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Box
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3Y183
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Folder
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left
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Resource
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Russell Lee photograph collection
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Description
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Estella Cortez gives her brother-in-law a hypodermic.The family doctor, a Latin-American, taught her home nursing techniques so that she might care for this man and his wife, both of whom had tuberculosis. The wife died the week before; this man has been in bed at home for four months. The city health officer, Dr. Gordon Fisher, estimates that there are 8000 cases of tuberculosis in the county; there are only twenty beds in the county tuberculosis sanitarium which is designed to supplement the state sanitarium at which there is a long waiting list. Corpus Christi, Texas.
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Title
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killed [photographer's note--no caption].
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Identifier
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e_rl_13918af_0010
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Creator
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Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
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Topic
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Latin Americans, Tuberculosis
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Dates
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1949
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Box
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3Y183
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Folder
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left
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Resource
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Russell Lee photograph collection
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Description
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killed [photographer's note--no caption].
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Title
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Mrs. Estella Cortez
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Identifier
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e_rl_13918af_0004
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Creator
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Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
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Topic
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Latin Americans, Tuberculosis
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Dates
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1949
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Box
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3Y183
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Folder
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left
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Resource
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Russell Lee photograph collection
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Description
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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.
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Title
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A seventy year old woman with tuberculosis.
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Identifier
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e_rl_13918af_0001
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Creator
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Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
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Topic
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Latin Americans, Tuberculosis
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Dates
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1949
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Box
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3Y183
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Folder
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left
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Resource
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Russell Lee photograph collection
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Description
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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.
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Title
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A seventy year old woman with tuberculosis.
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Identifier
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e_rl_13918af_0002
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Creator
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Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
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Topic
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Latin Americans, Tuberculosis
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Dates
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1949
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Box
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3Y183
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Folder
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left
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Resource
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Russell Lee photograph collection
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Description
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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.
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Title
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Tuberculosis patient Ben Cortez
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Identifier
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e_rl_13918ef_0015
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Creator
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Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
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Topic
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Latin Americans, Tuberculosis
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Dates
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1949
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Box
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3Y183
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Folder
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left
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Resource
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Russell Lee photograph collection
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Description
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Ben Cortez who has been in bed at home for four months with tuberculosis. Corpus Christi, Texas.