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Photo of Eugene Tabor, Emily Tabor, and infant Jeanne Tabor - 1949.   Eugene Tabor was a WWII veteran who was diagnosed with tuberculosis in the 1950's.  His mother, Emily Tabor, was a sanatorium employee who contracted tuberculosis while working at…

Bernadette Tabor Pruitt is an author residing in Wichita Falls, Texas. She wrote "A Family Interrupted" in June 2011. Her books include True Blue, The Reluctant Hero, and A Christmas Wish.  A former journalist, Bernadette edited The Salt of the…

This is a picture of my grandmother, Alma Cusac, who was in the "San" in 1950, when she was about 33 years old. She was healed and lived to be into her 80's, although there was a lot of shame about having TB and being at the state hospital.

Dr. Paul Brann Lingenfelter's obituary written by his daughter, Mary Ayn Lingenfelter Tullier (transcribed).

Photo of Marion and Bernice Campbell, parents of patient Helen Campbell, taken on the grounds of the Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium in 1939.

Undated photograph of Dr. Forrest Pitt Baker, superintendent of the Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium from 1928 to 1966.

The former Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium now operates as the Oklahoma Veterans Center-Talihina Division and the site consists of seventeen (17) buildings, four (4) structures and one (1) site. Located three miles northwest of Talihina off…

Photograph taken on February 18, 1972, at the First Service Award Program's employee recognition ceremony. In the background is a landscape mural, artist and date unknown, now covered by paneling. Pictured left to right; Representative Don…

In good condition, the Service Building's grand design and central location make it a multi-purpose gathering place today as it was in the past. Archival photographs are evidence that the dormers and original doors have been removed. A landscape…