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Dr. Turner's Sanitarium [Rest Home], Colfax, Iowa

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Doctors Alice Turner and Lewis Turner were the proprietors of the sanitarium "where one is taught to get well by natural methods." The Rest Home had a spring on the property and was a convenient three blocks from the depot. In 1911, the Rest Home was sold to Dr. C. M. Porter and was operated in conjunction with the Porter Brother's General Hospital. The Rest Home was destroyed by fire in February 1928. Number 9700.
Title Dr. Turner's Sanitarium [Rest Home], Colfax, Iowa
Alternative TitleTurner Sanitarium and Rest Home
Alternative TitleTurner, Lewis C.S.
Alternative TitleTurner, Alice B.S.
supporting host Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections
Index Date 1905
Publisher Wood, H.W. (Colfax, Iowa)
Type of Resource still image
Genre postcard
Physical Extent 1 postcard : color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Medium Color lithograph print, divided back. Made in Germany.
Provenance Purchase or donation
reproduction Scanned with HP Scanjet 4670 at 600 ppi. Archival master image available in tiff format.
citation/reference Iowa Research Online, Noe, Mary. "The Spring City: Colfax, Iowa." The Annals of Iowa 38 (1966), 241-255 (http://ir.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/vol38/iss4/2)
Date Issued 1900-1910
Language English
Topic Jasper County (Iowa)
Topic Colfax (Iowa)
Topic Health & hygiene facilities
Topic Sanatoriums
Cartographic 41.679066,-93.245459
Classification MS 108, Box 2, ihpc_colfax0013
Related Item Iowa Historical Postcard Collection (IHPC)
Related Item Grinnell College. Special Collections and Archives
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Identifier (local) ihpc_colfax0013
Identifier (local) grinnell:14588
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Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/14588
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