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Unbound. Very good. These three unused postcards show quarantine stations that protected transit through the Panama Canal. In nice shape. "Quarantine Station, Culebra Island, Panama." Leipzig, Berline, & New York: Americhrome, no date. Message on reverse; some soiling "Quarantine station La Boca, Panama." No publication data. "Quarantine Station, Naos Island, Panama." No publication data. Message on reverse. . Ships transiting the canal were required to undergo a health inspection. Although by the mid-1920s, most concerns had been eliminated, the major concern with regard to ships transiting the canal came from Bucaramanga and the interior of Columbia (Yellow Fever) and Plague from the west coast of South America. When necessary, ships were fumigated with cyanogen chloride gas. (For more information, see the Report of the Health Department of the Panama Canal for the Calendar Year 1923, available online.) .

San Francisco, Californi, 1900. Unbound. Very good. These three unused postcards show quarantine and immigration facilities at Angel Island near San Francisco. In nice shape. All are unused. "Quarantine Station, Angel Island, Calif." San Francisco: Stanley A Piltz Company, undated "Quarantine Station - Angel Island, Cal." San Francisco: Souvenir Publishing Company, undated "U.S. Quarantine Station. Angel Island. Cal." San Francisco: Pacific Novelty Co. undated .

South Mountain, Pennsylvania, 1945. Unbound. Very good. These five cards show the the South Mountain Sanitorium's doctors' residence, nurses, residence, women's dormitory, men's dormitory Unit 8, and men's dormitory Unit 15. . The sanitorium movement began in Europe, and the first was established in the United States at Asheville, North Carolina in 1875. The movement exploded in the 1880s when Dr. Edward Livingstone Trudeau of the Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium at Saranac Lake realized that patients symptoms improved (or at least did not worsen) with exposure to fresh air, and the number of sanitation beds in the United states grew from 4,500 in 1900 to over 675,00 in 1925. Treatment consisted of bed rest, exposure to fresh air, walking exercises, and occupational therapy like weaving, basketry, and leather work. The movement ended in the 1950s when streptomycin, isoniazid, and pyrazinamide became readily available to treat the disease. The words sanatorium and sanitarium and be used… Read More

New York City: Various, 1900. Unbound. Very good. These three unposted postcards show quarantine and immigration facilities at New York City. In nice shape. All are unposted; one contains a message. "Staten Island . . . Quarantine Station." New York: American Souvenir-Card Co.: 1897 "Extreme Point of Manhattan, showing Emigrant Landing and Whitehall Building, New York." New York: McGown-Silsbee Litho. Co.: no date "Ellis Island Immigration Depo. New York." New York: Photo & Art Postal Card Co.: no date .