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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.…

"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…

The address side of a postcard dated May 4, 1939, from Helen June Campbell to her parents. At that time, Helen Campbell was 6 years old and a patient residing at the Harper Building. The postmark identifies the postcard as being delivered into the…

Letter written by Helen Campbell to her family in Stigler, Oklahoma. One of several letters written in 1939 and postmarked Sanatorium Rural Station (SRS).

Pictured on the sanatorium grounds near the Harper building is Helen June Campbell in 1939, a 6-year old patient institutionalized with primary tuberculosis.

Pictured on the steps at the entrance to the Administration building are Helen Campbell and Jimmie Isborn in 1939, cousins and patients (6 and 10-years old, respectively).

Pictured at the entrance to the Harper building (left to right) are Marian and Helen Campbell, and Jimmie Isborn in 1939, during a family visit. Helen and Marian are sisters, Helen and Jimmie were cousins and patients residing at the Harper building.

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…

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.