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High school student Christine Bader assembled a photo scrapbook from 1919 through her graduation in 1921. In it she pasted pictures of her friends, family, and places she visited. I bought her scrapbook at an ephemera show in Pasadena, California.
Some of the places she visited were sanatoriums (tuberculosis hospitals). Woodman Home in Colorado Springs, Colorado was one of those. She does not say who the four women posed in the gateway were. The hospital was set up by the printer's union to handle both tuberculosis and black lung disease in printers, which was caused when they breathed in the carbon-based inks of the era. View full size.
Amazingly, the Union Printers' Home is still there and functioning as a nursing home, although no longer run by the Union. The grounds and the buildings themselves haven't' changed much. They, like many buildings in the Springs and Denver (including many sidewalks in Denver's older neighborhoods), were built with Lyons sandstone, which was quarried nearby.
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