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Photo of the sanatorium's hospital (left) and administration building (right) clipped from article titled "There's Health in Those Mountains of Oklahoma, at Gateway to the Ozarks" published in the December 7, 1930 edition of the Tulsa…

East elevation. The administration building housed the general offices, laboratory, drug room, x-ray room, operating room, examination room, kitchen, and general dining room on the first floor. Rooms for female employees were located on the second…

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.

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…

These undated photos are of the sanatorium's dairy barn and Holstein dairy herd. An excerpt from the sanatorium's publication, Mountain Air dated December 1930, reads as follows: With the increase in patient capacity naturally comes an increase in…

In ruins today, the building is located west of the pond and was described by Minnie Wagoner’s report as follows: with the completion in 1936 of a modern brick building to replace the former cramped, small milk house, the institution had one of the…

Pictured on the sanatorium grounds (left to right) are Dorothy and Helen Macomb in 1939, sisters and patients residing at the Harper Building.

"Notes on Being a Patient at Talihina" written by Dorothy Macomb Fowler in April 2010. Dorothy and her sister, Helen, were 6 and 10 years old, respectively, when they were institutionalized at the Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium in September…

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

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