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Karen Penington (née Worley) lived with her family in employee housing at the Nebraska State Hospital for Tuberculosis beginning in the late 1940s. Her mother and both grandmothers worked as hospital staff. One grandmother, Fern Worley, served as…

Margaret Brown (née Nutzman) lived in the Stone House for most of her childhood. Her father, Dr. William E. Nutzman, was the last and longest-serving superintendent of the Nebraska State Hospital for Tuberculosis.

Russell Smith is the younger son of Lester R. “Red” Smith, a Union Pacific engineer and patient at the Nebraska State Hospital for Tuberculosis in the late 1950s. His family lived in North Platte.

This excerpt from the 1926 silent film, Kearney and Its People, shows the patients, staff, and grounds of the Nebraska State Hospital for Tuberculosis. It opens with a view of the first permanent hospital building (1917), and also features the…

Article from the January 13, 1939 issue of the Kearney Daily Hub

An article from the July 1, 1972 edition of the Kearney Daily Hub about the closure of the Nebraska State Hospital for Tuberculosis.

An article from the January 25, 1912, edition of the Kearney Hub.

Article from the March 1, 1912 issue of the Kearney Hub.

An article from the March 25, 1912 issue of the Kearney Hub.

A newspaper article from September 2, 1913 about Dr. Deffenbaugh's role as superintendent of the hospital.