George White Oteen Hospital Pictures

The White and Moore Family had been residing in Wake County as early as the 19th century, if not before. George and India Moore White welcomed their first child, Bill, about the time in 1928 that George was diagnosed with tuberculosis and was sent for treatment at the hospital in Oteen, N.C.

This is a selection of original real-photo postcards gathered by the North Carolina Historical Commission between 1918 and 1921 of the Public Health Service Hospitals in Asheville and Oteen, N.C. Administrators with the hospitals gave these photographs to the Historical Commission as part of the North Carolina World War Records Collection Project. A number of these images had original identifications written on the back of the photographs. Some of the photographs are from after the end of WWI, showing recovering U.S. military personnel who suffered injuries, illness, or mental issues during WWI.

From North Carolina County War Records, WWI 2, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.