Edward R. Baldwin, a friend and colleague of Edward L. Trudeau. He worked at the Saranac Laboratory and the Trudeau Sanatorium. Circa 1930s. Saranac Lake, NY. Courtesy of Historic Saranac Lake.

From the late 1800s to the 1950s, Saranac Lake hosted thousands of tuberculosis patients. Walter “Bud” Duffy was a teenager in the 1940s, and worked several jobs related to the tuberculosis cure industry. Listen to his story here!