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Cook County Hospital
Chicago

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Title
Cook County Hospital
Description
Caption: "The Cook County Hospital, the largest of the public charities of Chicago, occupies twelve acres on West Harrison and Polk streets. The main building is a handsome edifice of red brick with stone trimmings and contains twenty-four wards each devoted to a separate class of disease. Any patient without money is taken at this hospital and receives as good treatment as if he were wealthy. Other structures are a detention hospital, a building devoted to contagious diseases, and a morgue."
Date
1906  
Type
Photograph  
File Name
chicago00lhne_raw_0030.jp2
Source Page
http://www.archive.org/stream/chicago00lhne#page/28/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicago00lhne
Subject
Hospitals  
Coverage-Spatial
Near West Side (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal
1900-1909  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Rights Description
Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book Title
Chicago  
Author of the Book
L. H. Nelson Company  
Collection Title
Picture Chicago
Collection
Picture Chicago
TitleCook County Hospital
DescriptionCaption: "The Cook County Hospital, the largest of the public charities of Chicago, occupies twelve acres on West Harrison and Polk streets. The main building is a handsome edifice of red brick with stone trimmings and contains twenty-four wards each devoted to a separate class of disease. Any patient without money is taken at this hospital and receives as good treatment as if he were wealthy. Other structures are a detention hospital, a building devoted to contagious diseases, and a morgue."
Date1906  
TypePhotograph  
File Namechicago00lhne_raw_0030.jp2
Source Pagehttp://www.archive.org/stream/chicago00lhne#page/28/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Texthttp://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicago00lhne
SubjectHospitals  
Coverage-SpatialNear West Side (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal1900-1909  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
RightsNo Copyright - United States
Rights DescriptionImages in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book TitleChicago  
Author of the BookL. H. Nelson Company  
Collection TitlePicture Chicago
CollectionPicture Chicago

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