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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…

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.

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.

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…

This clip from an interview with Jerry Smith provides information on what visiting a family member at the TB hospital was like.

Jerry Smith is the older 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.

Helen Kinnaman (née Axmann) worked in the kitchens of the Nebraska State Hospital for Tuberculosis in 1942-1943. She and her childhood friend, Irene Mollard, lived in dormitory-style housing on the third floor of the Stone House.

Father James E. Murphy served as the Chaplain at the TB Hospital from 1955 to 1961. This is a clip of an interview with him in 2017, where he talks about death at the Nebraska State Hospital for Tuberculosis.

A clip from an interview with Anne Ryan. She discusses the hobbies of the patients, as well as her mother's interaction with Japanese patients during World War II.

Anne Ryan (née Schmidt) worked in the dining room of the Nebraska State Hospital…

A funny story Anne Ryan tells from her mother's experience at the TB hospital as a nurse's aide.