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Historic American Buildings Survey Lester Jones, Photographer February 28, 1940 Slave Hospital From The Southwest
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HB502918
General View Of Slave Hospital (yucca House)
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Item Title
LocationState Highway 119,
Melrose, LA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS LA-2-69-A
Drawings of the Slave Hospital (Yucca House) were donated to the collection & categorized under the name Yucca House. See HABS No. LA-2-69-C.
Significance: A former slave hospital in a Louisiana plantation; one of the earliest buildings built by blacks.
Subjects
MedicineSlaveryAfrican Americans
Related Names
Jones, Lester, Photographer
Boucher, Jack E., Photographer
McCown, Susan, Historian
Hampson, Frank, Photographer
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. Historic American Buildings Survey Lester Jones, Photographer February 28, 1940 SLAVE HOSPITAL FROM THE SOUTHWEST
2. GENERAL VIEW OF SLAVE HOSPITAL (YUCCA HOUSE)
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