First TB Hospital, 1917
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Flower Mission Hospital for Incurables at 960 Locke Street, ca. 1917. The building, which is the smaller structure on the right, was erected in 1903 for the care of patients in the last stages of tuberculosis.
Image Courtesy of IUPUI University Library Special Collections and Archives
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Indianapolis Flower Mission
A women’s charity organization, the Indianapolis Flower Mission served the sick poor of the Circle City for over one hundred years. Part of a national movement, the charity began in 1876 when Alice Wright, the daughter of a prominent railroad…