Clothing allowance.

ID: 2989 ~ Source: Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collection. Carville, LA.

This file appears in: Carville, The National Leprosarium: Patient Life

The federal government offered a yearly clothing allowance to patients.

Over the years, outside charitable organizations regularly donated clothing to patients.

In the canteen, managed by the Patient Federation, patients could place their orders for clothing through catalogs, like Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Montgomery Ward.

This file appears in: Carville, The National Leprosarium: Patient Life

Carville, The National Leprosarium: Patient Life

By Elizabeth Schexnyder, Curator, National Hansen's Disease Museum, Carville, LA & Kyle Hymel

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