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Small golden oak desk that has one long drawer in front with two round, wooden knobs. There are four squared legs: the two on each side are connected by thin stretches underneath, and there is one, wide, flat stretcher that goes width-wise…

Small, white, drawstring garment bag, originally used to store the accompanying surgical gown (2015.03.001). It is embroidered with the words "Gowns" and "Dr. Basten". Above "Gowns" is also printed "152." No maker's mark. Part of a matching set:…

White doctor's surgical gown that originally belonged to Dr. C.V. Basten of the TB Hospital. There is also a matching drawstring bag originally used to the store the surgical gown (2015.03.001). The gown is open in the back, and has two strips of…

Tall, dark brown wood medical cabinet with glass doors on top and drawers underneath. The top half of the cabinet has two glass doors that open outward and away from each other. Directly behind the glass are shallow shelves, the shelves themselves…

La Siesta 1961 features an article from the Sanabraska News on Page 6.

Volume 5 Issue Number 10 of the Sanabraska News from 1951.

Volume 23 Issue Number 7 of the Sanabraska News

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…

Anne Ryan (née Schmidt) worked in the dining room of the Nebraska State Hospital for Tuberculosis as a teenager in the late 1940s. Her mother, Augusta Schmidt (later Augusta Register), served as a nurse’s aide for 23 years. They lived in employee…

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.