Carville, Louisiana - Old Coca-Cola bottles decorate the grounds of the National Hansen's Disease Museum. Once a facility where people with Hansen's D

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Carville, Louisiana - Old Coca-Cola bottles decorate the grounds of the National Hansen's Disease Museum. Once a facility where people with Hansen's Disease (leprosy) were quarantined for life, it is now a museum that tells the story of the disease and of the patients who lived there and the medical professionals who cared for them. Coca-Cola bottles are a symbol of the fear and prejudice that leprosy inspired. They were used as lawn decorations because the local distributor refused to take back the returnable bottles, fearing that they were forever contaminated.

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Size: 5376px × 3584px
Location: Carville, Louisiana, United States
Photo credit: © Jim West / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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