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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.

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…

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…

Pictured outside of the Patients Pavilon is Eula Sharp, a 19-year old patient.  She is listed among the patients on the 1930 Census. The back of the photograph is inscribed to Dr. Baker and is stamped Brown's Studio, McAlester, Oklahoma.  

Acknowledged in a 1930 newspaper article as the sanatorium's poet laureate, Eula Sharp's artistic talent and heartfelt sincerity is evident in her letter written to Dr. Baker dated December 22, 1930.

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

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

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…