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Photograph of a human leg with a disease or wound visible on the shin.

Photograph of a human leg showing extensive bruising in the heel and arch. Swelling is also visible. Exact medical condition is unidentified.

Photograph of a woman's hands and legs covered with skin lesions that were probably smallpox.

This letter to Mary (Mollie) Foltz of Forestville VA was written on December 13, 1904 by “Gus,” a man who we know very little about. Records indicate that some of Mary’s family, including the Charlie Foltz mentioned in the letter, had moved to North…