Black and white photo of a two-story structure of eclectic design.  The [south] end nearest the photographer has a hipped roof with two gabled dormers on the front and one of the end. The north half of the building has a gabled roof with an inset porch. There are four men in dress clothes spaced out in front of the building and on the sidewalk. There are small sapling trees next to the sidewalk.
Rammelsburg Bathhouse, 1898
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...and possibly the Rammelsberg Bathhouse on Bathhouse Row, but they were not allowed to bathe during the hours considered optimum by prescribing physicians, particularly from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Since black communities were at some distance from Bathhouse Row, physicians agreed that walking home in the cool early morning or late afternoon hours after bathing might be a health risk; even so, for several years nothing was done to remedy the situation.
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