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‘Depression or No Depression’: Bronx Hospital Needs Donations to Open,...

Imagine a newly constructed hospital with room for over 300 occupants, sitting idle and standing empty in a time of great need.By the mid-1920s the Bronx Hospital, originally founded in 1911, had...

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‘The World Has Suffered Many Losses through Time’: Environmental Conservation...

Most of us are familiar with the sad story of the passenger pigeon: the North American bird whose immense numbers (believed to have been up to forty percent of the wild bird population) and intensely...

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‘Making The Wheels Go Round’: The New York Tuberculosis and Health...

            Think back to last December. Or other Decembers. Maybe you received a holiday card sealed with a Christmas Seal from the American Lung Association. These stamps have been used as a...

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The Honorable William F. Hagarty on the Benefits of Exercise, December 1931

“May heaven speed the day when the length and breadth of our United States shall be peopled with men and women, and boys and girls, solely by those of this type: strong bodied, true hearted, big souled...

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