Cresson TB Sanatorium Remembered
Harvey 2
You've read Harveys writeup, so now take a look at his photos.  Harvey has a great selection of photos from his time at the san preventorium, many taken by his father.   They are from the 1941-45 years.  There are so many that they are separated into 3 groups on 3 pages as follows:
 
Harvey 2 Page...........People Photos
Harvey 3 Page...........Winter Snow & Ice Photos
Harvey 4 Page...........Building Photos
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1.  Playground
 
 
 
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3.  Jerome, Ken and Harvey. 
 
 
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5.  Kids on slide.
 
 
 
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7.  Kids lining up to enter school.  Pavilion is in the backgroound.
 
 
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9.  Harvey in school yard.
 
 
 
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11.  School yard and school buildings.
 
 
 
 
 
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13.  Front of Children's House
 
 
 
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15.  Harvey, Jerome and Ken, 1942  
  
 
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17.  Ragged group, 1942   
 
 
 
 
 
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19.  My oldest brother Bill with Oliver.  Bill is 82 and living in Panama City, FL.  
 
 
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21.  The girls at west wing almost ready to be discharged, standing outside their West Wing apartment. 
 
 
 
 
 
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23.  Some male patients. (Names include John Skala, Edmind Rodiquis, Walter Eneski)
 
 
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25.  Harvey & James Hancock in front of Children's House.
 
 
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27.  HALLOWEEN OCT 31, 1944  IN THE GYM BELOW THE DINING ROOM AT CHILDREN'S HOUSE
 
LEFT TO RIGHT BACK ROW:  EMMETT MASON-INDIAN;  HOMER THOMAS - PIRATE;  ELZY WILSON - WITCH;  LORAINE SHARD - MISS AMERICA;  DR. ROYER - HEAD DIRECTOR AT CRESSON SAN;  JAMES JORDAN - UNCLE SAM;  HARRY WILSON - ORGAN GRINDER;  GENEVIEVE STARKWEATHER - FAT WOMAN
 
LEFT TO RIGHT FRONT ROW:    ANNA MAE UPSHY - BRIDE;   BERTHA MCKELVY - ORIGINAL DRESS;  DELORES MOORE - SMALL GIRL THERE;   GEORGE KING - MONKEY;  IRENE IZOL - SPANISH GIRL
 
 
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29.  Harvey with his mother looking out the window at the sanatorium in Monaca, Pa. in 1941 when he was 9.  Harvey was too young to go inside to visit, so his mother looked out the window while his dad snapped the photo.  That's his dad's 1936 Chevy.

 

 

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31.  Harvey visited the san in 1970.  That's the schoolhouse in the background with the playground in the left foreground.
 
 
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33.  Harve and daughter Michele in front of Children's House in 1970.  Above Harve's head was Ward #3 where he lived as a patient.  The 2nd floor was for the girls.  On this visit he was allowed in the lobby only.
 
 
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35.  Harve's wife Pat and Michele in front of Children's House in 1970.  
 
 
 
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38.  Above is a certificate commemorating  Harvey's first Communion.  It reads:
Harvey Docchio Received First Holy Communion in State Sanatorium Chapel, Cresson Pa. on August 7, 1942.  Signed by Rev. Thos O'Donnell, Chaplain
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2.  Ken, Harvey and Jerome  1942.  West Wing in background.
 
 
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4.  Playground - Kids on monkey bars.
 
 
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6.  Playground scene.  Surgery Building on right.
 
 
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8.  Miss Mary Mackereth, the school teacher, on the left.
 
 
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10.  Harvey kneeling in the center, picnicing w/brothers.
 
 
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12. My brother Ken looking towards the Dining Room of Children's House.
 
 
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14.  4th of July picnic in front of Children's House.  Harvey is in center talking to someone on visitors day.
 
 
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16.  Ken, Jerome and Harvey. 
 
 
 
 
 
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18.  Harve with some nursery kids.  James Hancock from Scranton, Pa. is on the far right.
 
 
 
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20.  Nurses.   Ms. Graham on the right.
 
 
 
 
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22.  Harvey, Clara Barlick (Nursery Aide), Ken and Jerome  1942.
 
 
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24.  R & S wards.
 
 
 
 
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26.  Ken, Jerome & Harvey in front of Children's House.
 
 
 
 
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28.  A photo of Harvey with his  brothers taken recently at a bocce tournment.
 
HARVEY (75 YRS) ON LEFT
JEROME (73 YRS) TOP CENTER
NEPHEW (KENS BOY) BOTTOM CENTER
KEN 76 YRS ON RIGHT
 
 
 
 
 
 
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30.  Harvey's mother was admitted as a TB patient at Cresson in 1939 and was discharged in 1940.  She worsened and was sent to a local sanatorium in Monaco, Pa. where she died on February 20, 1942 while Harvey and his brothers were at Cresson san.   She was 36 years old.
 
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32.  Just to the right of the schoolhouse was another classroom building.  The big elongated building on the right was a roller skating pavilion.

 

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34.  Harve's daughter Michele with Children's House in the background.
 
 
 
 
 
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36.    Harve's Family:   Chris, Mark, Pat, Harve & Michele.

 

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37.  Chris, Mark, Michele, Harve & Pat.