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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 an unidentified 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…