Mantiva Leper Hospital: the nurses' quarters. Photograph, 1890/1920.

Providencia Island, Venezuela: houses for leprosy sufferers. Photograph, 1890/1910.

Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: female patients outside a long grass-roofed shelter. Photograph, 1921.

Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: a water tower and cottages. Photograph, ca. 1921.

Dichpali, Hyderabad: laying the foundation stone of the new men's hospital at the leprosy hospital. Photograph by G.M. Kerr, 1935.

Dichpali, Hyderabad: doctors treating leprosy patients in one of the hospital wards. Photograph by R. Howett, 19--.

Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: three male patients who have been treated with injections of chaulmoogra oil. Photograph, 1921.

The James M. Patton Leper Village, Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: visiting Thai royalty leave in a car. Photograph, 1921.

Purulia Leper Home and Hospital, Bihar, India: view of large hospital buildings with pillars: the men's hospital and the tuberculosis ward. Photograph, 1890/1920.

The Therapeutic Institute for Leprosy, Tocunduba, Pará, Brazil: patients and staff are grouped outside and at the balconies to large, arched windows of a hospital building. Photograph, 1890/1910.

Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: a man and a woman with leprosy. Photograph, 1921.

Boarding houses for visitors to a local asylum for people with leprosy, next to the village shop; the buildings have tall, pointed thatched rooves. Photograph, 1890/1910.

1 photograph : (album page 15) : photoprint ; sheet 14 x 20 cm

The James M. Patton Leper Village, Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: Thai royalty and politicians stand at the entrance with asylum doctors; patients are seated. Photograph, 1921.

1 photograph : (album page 22) : photoprint ; sheet 9.7 x 14.2 cm

Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: children outside the grass-roofed temporary school for uninfected children of leprosy patients. Photograph, 1921.

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 10.7 x 15.3 cm

1 photograph : (album page 17) : photoprint ; sheet 10 x 14.2 cm

Gospel Church village, Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: the Thai Prince Damrong and his party on the steps of a wooden cottage. Photograph, 1921.

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 11.3 x 15.1 cm

The Leper Settlement, Providencia Island, Venezuela: the wards (right) and the chapel (left). Photograph, 1890/1910.

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Leprosy - Hospitals

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Images about Leprosy - Hospitals

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The James M. Patton Leper Village, Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: Thai royalty and politicians stand at the entrance with asylum doctors; patients are seated. Photograph, 1921.

Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: children outside the grass-roofed temporary school for uninfected children of leprosy patients. Photograph, 1921.

Mantiva Leper Hospital: the nurses' quarters. Photograph, 1890/1920.

Gospel Church village, Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: the Thai Prince Damrong and his party on the steps of a wooden cottage. Photograph, 1921.

The Leper Settlement, Providencia Island, Venezuela: the wards (right) and the chapel (left). Photograph, 1890/1910.

Leprosy - Hospitals

Images from the collections

Images about Leprosy - Hospitals

Works from the collections

The James M. Patton Leper Village, Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: Thai royalty and politicians stand at the entrance with asylum doctors; patients are seated. Photograph, 1921.

Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: children outside the grass-roofed temporary school for uninfected children of leprosy patients. Photograph, 1921.

Mantiva Leper Hospital: the nurses' quarters. Photograph, 1890/1920.

Gospel Church village, Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: the Thai Prince Damrong and his party on the steps of a wooden cottage. Photograph, 1921.

The Leper Settlement, Providencia Island, Venezuela: the wards (right) and the chapel (left). Photograph, 1890/1910.

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