12 days of Saranac Lake-mas … day 6
On the sixth day of Saranac Lake-mas, Historic Saranac Lake gave to you … tuberculosis patients a-laying in the fresh air! TB patients like these women at the Ray Brook Sanatorium would spend their days on porches resting and taking in the fresh air. This photograph, courtesy of Ben Fruhlinger an part of the Historic Saranac Lake Collection, dates to 1928.
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