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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.

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

"The weeks, the months, and the years have slipped quietly over the threshold into the past, as the little hospital had grown in structure and spirit. But today it is not the attractive brick buildings in their mountain setting that pays tribute to…

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…

Letter from Robert Carroll to Stacey Bayles dated September 2009. The letter is presented in two versions; one handwritten, one transcribed of Robert Carroll's recollection of the circumstances leading to his hospitalization and his experiences at…

Drawing of the PWA hospital's 2nd floor center ward drawn from memory by Robert Carroll in September 2009. Robert, then known as 'Bobby', was a 9-year old patient at the sanatorium's hospital in late 1958 thru early 1959.

Pictured at the west entrance of the PWA hospital is Robert 'Bobby' Carroll in February 1959, following successful treatment for histoplasmosis. Originally from Delaware County, Oklahoma, Robert now resides in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories,…