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Employee orientation manual; bed capacity report; LaBorde listed as Pre-Release unit, ward 122, capacity of 34.

Map of State Mental Hospital, LaBorde is labeled as "W.M.T.B. 1929" - Perhaps stands for White Male Tuberculosis. Note that the building is still not called LaBorde in 1941.

Board Regents minutes from May 29, 1929: Records bids received for building the Tuberculosis ward at the State Hospital in Columbia, and the decision to accept the lowest bid, proposed by Mechanics Contracting Co., of $22,981.

Lists buildings that serve as patient dormitories, their bed capacity, and the year of completion

An excerpt from the Annual Report for the Year 1928-Architects Report briefly summarizing the need for a new building for Tuberculosis patients and that the Parker Annex is currently housing these patients. It also talks about turning the Parker…

Photograph of the Parker Annex Building and Laborde Building.

Excerpts from the South Carolina Department of Mental Health's annual report for the year 1963, including a photograph on the cover depicting the front of the central section of Babcock looking at a northeast angle, an aerial photograph of the campus…

Central in the photo is the Camp Asylum archaeological dig; shows LaBorde's physical relationship to the campus's core: Babcock, which sits to LaBorde's northwest.

View of west wall (of east wing), facing east. Angle of roof visible. East wing is clearly surrounded by tarps of the Camp Asylum archaeological dig, Spring 2014.

Close-up of drain pipe of the central pavilion at the back of LaBorde, western side. Original brick is exposed; exterior was painted in 1973.