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.

Tocunduba Lepers' Asylum, Pará, Brazil: a row of basic cottages; a horse and cart outside a larger building. Photograph, 1890/1910.

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