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Photographs of the Patients Pavilion from the collection of Dr. Forrest Pitt Baker including a group photograph of the "Girls on the Porch".  The pavilion was divided Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest porches. These photographs…

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…

West elevation looking south. By 1921 plans for tuberculosis sanatoriums had became fairly standardized and institutions were designed to promote ease and economy in maintaining a facility. Sanatoriums were comprised of two parts; one for housing…

North elevation. In 1924, another medical building was constructed that accommodated 50 male patients and housed a diet kitchen, treatment room, pharmacy, and general work rooms. The building's floor-plan placed each patient on the south side to…

South elevation. In July 1925, the Legislature appropriated $45,000 for the construction of a new nurses home at the sanatorium. Constructed in 1926, the new nurses home provided amenities such as hot and cold water in each room, linen closet, and…

East elevation. Constructed in 1928, the Service Building housed the kitchen, dining room, store, cold storage room, and a large auditorium, as well as employee quarters upstairs. This photo also features an important symbol associated with the…

Photos of the east elevation (entrance) and south elevation (side). A plaque in the Service Building’s auditorium identifies the architects as Layton Hicks and Forsyth of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - architects of the State Capitol and other historic…

North elevation looking east. Constructed in 1930 as a children's facility, this building accommodated 65 patients with primary tuberculosis. Each wing housed sleeping porches on the south with dressing rooms on the north. The first floor's central…

North elevation looking west. The Harper Building was a preventorium for children infected with tuberculosis, but who did not have an active form of the disease. A preventorium was defined by the Committee of Preventoria of the National Tuberculosis…

North elevation. In 1932, a three-story brick Infirmary Building for women with an 80-bed capacity was constructed. This building was used to care for the more advanced patients and as a receiving ward.