METHUSELAH ARCHIVE SOURCES / JACKSON-SANATORIUM-BOOKLET-1890

The Jackson Sanatorium: The Best Appointed Health Institution in America. Built of Brick and Iron and Absolutely Fire Proof.

period advertisement · 1890
type:period advertisement
year:1890
citation:Jackson, James H.; Jackson, Kate J.; Gregory, Walter E. The Jackson Sanatorium: The Best Appointed Health Institution in America. Buffalo, N.Y.: Matthews-Northrup Co., 1890. Digitized copy: SUNY Geneseo Milne Library, Historical Reprints Collection, knightscholar.geneseo.edu/historical-reprints/27; also digitized by the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County, Historic Monographs Collection, libraryweb.org/~digitized/books/Jackson_Sanatorium.pdf; catalog copy at Library of Congress, loc.gov/item/tmp92006426, and Internet Archive, archive.org/details/jacksonsanatoriu00buff (Library of Congress copy).
LINK
https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/historical-reprints/27/
SUMMARY
Promotional booklet issued in 1890 by James H. Jackson, M.D., Kate J. Jackson, M.D., and Walter E. Gregory, M.D. -- the son, daughter-in-law, and colleague to whom James Caleb Jackson had by then handed operating control -- marking the institution's formal rebranding from "Our Home on the Hillside" to "The Jackson Sanatorium" after the 1882 fire and 1883 fireproof-brick rebuild. States the institution is devoted to the scientific treatment of chronic invalids via non-pharmaceutical methods: diet, exercise, rest, and regulated daily life. States a weekly-fee schedule: rooms in the main building from $16 to $35 per week, rooms in the cottages from $14 to $35 per week, each price including board and the usual medical supervision and care; separately, non-resident boarders (without a room) at $12 per week. Includes a testimonial attributed to Clara Barton of Washington, D.C. Fetched directly as a PDF (Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County copy) on 2026-08-04 and processed with Ghostscript text extraction; the scanned decorative multi-column layout fragments reading order on extraction, so the facts recorded here (the chronic-invalids framing, the expense figures) are drawn from short, individually legible OCR fragments corroborated against an independent AI web-search extraction of the same booklet; no verify-quotes block is used given the extraction's word-order unreliability.
NOTES

This 1890 promotional booklet is the primary evidentiary anchor for the case’s era_end: it documents the institution’s own chosen moment of rebranding from “Our Home on the Hillside” to “The Jackson Sanatorium,” under the next generation of Jackson-family management, immediately after the 1882 fire and 1883 fireproof rebuild. It supplies the residential fee schedule underlying the case’s price-tier classification and the Clara Barton testimonial underlying the notable-patient and financial-conflict material.