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X-Ray Machine At The Tuberculosis Center, State Health Department
X-Ray Machine At The Tuberculosis Center, State Health Department
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This black and white photograph shows a demonstration of the x-ray machine in the Tuberculosis Center at the State Health Department offices in Little Rock. X-rays were key in the diagnosis process for Tuberculosis, a disease that once affected one in sixty people in Arkansas and accounted for one in seven deaths. X-rays proved to be the most effective way to diagnosis active cases of Tuberculosis, but the struggle, which continued well in the 1940s, was in finding access to a machine and someone trained to read the films once produced.
1959 Arkansas State College Beauty Contestant
1959 Arkansas State College Beauty Contestant
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Black and white photograph of a young woman, possibly Fern Dean Bryan, posing for a glamor shot that was part of her entry into the 1959 Miss Arkansas State College Pageant. The picture was taken in Fordyce, Arkansas, which is most likely her hometown. An annual scholarship beauty pageant is still held at what is today known as Arkansas State University.