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A comprehensive history of the Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium written in August 1973 by former Oklahoma State Sanatorium employee, Minnie Wagoner.

A history of the Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium and the Oklahoma State Sanatorium written in June 1975 by former sanatorium employee, LaVerne McCawley. The operation of the facility was transferred from the Oklahoma Department of Health to…

A Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Talihina, Oklahoma, dated December 1924. This map documents the Choctaw-Chickasaw Sanatorium (shown left on map) and the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium (shown right on map), located on the Winding Stair Mountain range…

Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930 Population Schedule for the Eastern Oklahoma State T. B. Sanatorium located northwest of Talihina, Oklahoma in Latimer County. These census records document the patients and staff residing at the Eastern…

Collection of medical instruments and equipment used at the Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium housed at the Oklahoma Veterans Center-Talihina Center.

Undated photograph of Dr. Forrest P. Baker (pictured second from left), superintendent and medical director of the Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium, with unidentified physicians and nurses.

In 1939, four registered nurses supervised a staff of 34 practical nurses who cared for sanatorium patients.  Pictured left to right: Mary Van Harris, operating supervisor; Evelyn McCullough, supervisor of men's wards; Grace Lee Coshow, chief…

Undated photograph of unidentified nurse with German Shepherd dog on steps at the entrance of the Administration building,

Photo of patients and staff taken at the rear of the Infirmary (exclusively for female patients). Long-time employee, LaVerne McCawley, is pictured (12th from right, second row). LaVerne McCawley was the author of "A Short Story" included in this…

Surgical staff operating on a patient. In the top photo, Dr. F. P. Baker, sanatorium superintendent and chief surgeon, performs the operation.  Assisting him across the table is Dr. G. A. Rogers.  Administering the anesthesia is Dr. W. D. Rosborough.…