From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Rest a While Gabriels Sanitorum, Gabriels, N.Y. 27.
View of the Sanatorium proper in Gabriels, N.Y. from a diagonal view. The building itself is fairly large and resembles a luxury hotel. Sanatoriums were used as a means of helping people with teberculosis overcome their illness. It was believed that by breathing clean air and drinking pure water was what would cure people of their illness.