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Cleared interior of privy showing plastered brickwork sides

Pile of burned medical waste piled in the privy/outhouse before its excavation

Ceramic whiteware pitcher pieced together with a maker's mark on the

One whole whiteware ceramic teacup and one pieced together cup with burned and unburned sections

A horse-drawn ambulance at Charity Hospital from around 1895. Courtesy of the Louisiana State Museum, TO400.1990.15.08

Four toys recovered from this site: a chess piece, doll face fragment, and two doll leg pieces

Pieces of glass nursing bottles recovered from multiple units

Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogue advertisement for nursing flasks noting that the round shape is easy to clean and providing options for measurements on the side and tube fitting

Invalid feeder used for yellow fever victims, partially reconstructed from multiple locations

Newspaper headline in the Daily Picayune reporting on the fire started in the temporary yellow fever hospital to-be