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Viola Fox's original Nurse's Cape.

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.

This article titled, "Looking for Birds with Opera Glasses" from the February 27, 1917 issue of the Kearney Morning Times describes a situation in which a TB patient named Martha Witt "escaped" from the hospital grounds.

This is the 1950 Census record for the Tuberculosis Hospital in Kearney.

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

A list of health rules from the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, Washington D.C., published by the Nebraska State Board of Health.

This article provides information on the annual report from April 1953 to March 1954 from the Nebraska State Hospital for Tuberculosis. The superintendent at the time is named, and topics like the decline in TB deaths, tuberculosis associations…

X-Ray image of a normal lung.

An x-ray image of lungs with tuberculosis.

Clip from the Nebraska State Journal in 1894