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This historic image depicted one of the tall Magnolia trees that had been growing on the grounds of the Carville, Louisiana Leprosarium. The
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This historic image depicted one of the tall Magnolia trees that had been growing on the grounds of the Carville, Louisiana Leprosarium. The Magnolia is the Louisiana State flower, and there were many, many such trees growing on the hospital's acreage."Patients of the U.S. Marine Hospital in Carville, Louisiana, produced a set of 35 mm slides around 1950 from which this image was derived. In 2002, a patient's son donated the set, the only one known in existence, to the museum. The father, a patient at Carville for several years, brought these slides home around 1950 to give his family a snapshot of life at the national leprosarium. The act of quarantining patients for leprosy (HD) remained law in the state of Louisiana until 1957."
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CDC/ Elizabeth Schexnyder, National Hansen's Disease Museum, Curator
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December 4, 2012