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Title
Grand Traverse County's Poorhouse
Creator
Traverse City Record Eagle

Institution
Munson Medical Center

Subject
Hospital Planning

Subject
Denunciation of the Grand Traverse County's poor house in 1910.

Subject
The new building has two stories with a slate roof. It contains fifty rooms.

Item Number
CK06b001

Relation
NULL

Type
text, text

Format
tiff

Description
Newspaper article with a photograph showing Traverse City resident Mickey Thomas with her mother, Gladys Mielke, at left, and her aunt Adeline Mielke after a visit to the Boardman Valley Hospital in 1933. The building, torn down in 1992, was the former county poorhouse.

Grand Traverse County

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