This article recounts the experiences of the author, Louise Florence Berthold, as a child living with her family at Parkland Hospital from 1898 to 1902. Her father, John Hicks Florence, was City Health Officer at the time. The article was published...
St. Paul Hospital (Dallas, Texas) operated a School of Nursing from 1900 to 1971. For many of those years, a yearbook was published for the nursing students. This is the text of the 1963 yearbook, which was titled, “The White Cap.”
"Victory Huts" were prefabricated buildings developed during World War II as a method of providing quick housing for soldiers. The white "Victory Huts" behind the Parkland Nurses' Home are believed to have been used first as housing for recovering...
William F. Mengert, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Southwestern Medical School, conducts a "ward class" in Parkland Hospital. Medical students, interns and/or residents accompany a physician on rounds in the ward to discuss the care...
This advertisement for "Doctors' Phaetons" appeared in the "Texas Clinic" journal, volume 3, 1900. Phaetons are light, four-wheeled carriages drawn by one or two horses. The dealer was located in Dallas, at the corner of Elm and Houston Streets.
This advertisement for Parkland Hospital was published in the "Texas Health Journal," v. 7, December, 1894. Parkland advertised in order to fill its private wards with paying patients, who were charged $7 to $12 per week for the room, nurse, meals,...
Dr. Benjamin Bluitt was the first African-American surgeon in Texas and one of the first African-Americans to practice medicine in Dallas. His sanitarium--today we would call it a hospital--opened in 1905 and was the first Dallas hospital facility...
Around 1945, this hospital in McKinney, Texas was transferred from the U.S. Army to the Veterans Administration. When operated by the Army, the hospital was called “Ashburn General Hospital.”
In 1902, the University of Dallas Medical Department was merged into Baylor University and became Baylor University College of Medicine. The building shown in this photo was home to the College of Medicine. This photo was digitized from the 1906...
This group of photos showing interiors of the Baylor University College of Medicine was digitized from the 1906 Baylor University yearbook, "Round-Up." From top to bottom, the rooms shown are listed as: Bacteriological Laboratory, Dean's Office,...
Baylor University College of Medicine students are at work in a chemistry laboratory. Professor Herbert C. Tidwell (left center, with mustache, facing camera) is the instructor. When Baylor College of Medicine moved to Houston in 1943, Dr. Tidwell...
In 1922, Baylor University College of Medicine bought the former East Dallas City Hall (built in 1886 and later converted to a school), at the corner of Gaston Avenue and College Avenue (later Hall Street) to house its operations. Note the "East...
In 1922, Baylor University College of Medicine bought the former East Dallas City Hall (built in 1886, and later converted to a school), at the corner of Gaston Avenue and College Avenue (later Hall Street) to house its operations. This photo shows...
In 1907, Baylor University College of Medicine boasted an "Electro-Therapeutical Laboratory Static Machine Room," as shown in this photo which was digitized from the 1907 Baylor University yearbook, "Round-Up." In this era, electricity was believed...
In 1907, Baylor University College of Medicine had a "High-Frequency and X-Ray Laboratory," as shown in this photo, which was digitized from the 1907 edition of the Baylor University yearbook, "Round-Up."
This group of photos showing the interior of the Baylor College of Medicine building appeared in the College's 1903-04 Annual Announcement. From top to bottom, the rooms portrayed are labeled as Operating Room--College Building, Operating Room, and...
Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium opened this building in 1909. Its name changed its name to Baylor University Hospital in 1936. By the time this photo was taken, circa 1950, the two outer corners of the original front porch had been enclosed with...
Baylor University Hospital grew into Baylor University Medical Center, adopting the new name in 1959. This drawing from about 1960 shows the Truett Hospital, completed in 1950, at the center of the drawing, and to the left the slightly later,...
The Bradford Memorial Hospital for Babies--which grew out of the Dallas “Baby Camp” that started on the Parkland Hospital grounds--opened in 1930 in a Mediterranean style building at the corner of Maple Avenue and Turtle Creek Blvd. In 1948,...
Children's Hospital of Texas opened this building in 1940. The hospital--along with Bradford Memorial and Freeman Clinic--would be incorporated into Children's Medical Center of Dallas in 1948. This photo dates from about 1945.
Construction materials for the building of Children's Medical Center are seen in the foreground, with Parkland Memorial Hospital and Southwestern Medical School in the background. The Children's Medical Center building opened in 1967.
In the foreground is Children’s Medical Center as it appeared in 1982. In the background (on the right) are Parkland Memorial Hospital, and (on in the left) the UT Health Science Center (later renamed UT Southwestern Medical Center) campus....
This is a pre-construction drawing of the Children's Medical Center of Dallas complex as it was first constructed adjacent to Parkland Memorial Hospital. The building opened in 1967.
This page from the 1916-1917 Baylor College of Medicine "Annual Announcement" shows Dallas hospitals and clinics of the era. Those shown include (left to right, top to bottom) City Hospital (i.e., Parkland Hospital), Texas Baptist Memorial...
Dallas Medical College operated from 1900 to 1904, after which date it merged with Baylor College of Medicine. The College was founded by faculty who seceded from the University of Dallas Medical Department.
Three Dallas Medical College students embrace in a laboratory. The Dallas Medical College operated from 1900 to 1904. This photo is one of a series depicting the same three students.
Three Dallas Medical College students in a laboratory, one reading from a book. The Dallas Medical College operated from 1900 to 1904. This photo is one of in a series depicting the same three students.
Three Dallas Medical College students in a laboratory face the camera while seated. The Dallas Medical College operated from 1900 to 1904. This photo is one in a series depicting the same three students.
Three Dallas Medical College students pose with a skeleton. On the chalkboard behind the students is written: "Dec. 15, 1903--The 'foxes' leave tonight-for where?" The Dallas Medical College operated from 1900 to 1904. this photo is one of a series...
Dr. Charles M. Rosser became health offficer for the city of Dallas in 1891. In 1900, he founded the University of Dallas Medical Department, which later became Baylor University College of Medicine. In 1901, Dr. Rosser founded good Samaritan...
Dr. Edward H. Cary (center, in suit) and Baylor Hospital house staff stand on front steps of Baylor Hospital. Dr. Cary was dean of Baylor College of Medicine from 1903 to 1920.
Dr. Edward H. Cary was dean of the Baylor University College of Medicine in 1906 when this photo appeared in the Baylor University yearbook, "Round-Up." Cary served as dean of Baylor College of Medicine from 1903 to 1920. He would go on to become...
Dr. John Hicks Florence (born 1868, died 1938) was the Dallas City Health Officer from 1898 to 1902. During that time, he lived with his family at Parkland Hospital.
Dr. William Lee Hudson stands with Parkland School of Nursing students on the front steps of Parkland Hospital on Maple Avene. The photo is inscribed, "To our sponsor, Senior Class '38'." Dr. Hudson was chief of Surgery at Parkland Hospital from...
Dr. William Lee Hudson (born 1892, died 1961) was chief of Surgery at Parkland Hospital from 1923 to 1949, and also a Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Southwestern Medical College from its opening in 1943. This portrait was published in the...
Dr. William Lee Hudson (born 1892, died 1961) was chief of Surgery at Parkland Hospital from 1923 to 1949, and also a Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Southwestern Medical College from its opening in 1943.
Dr. Emmett J. Conrad (born 1923, died 1993) was an African-American surgeon and civic leader who joined the staff of St. Paul Hospital in 1956. He was the first African-American surgeon on the St. Paul staff, and later (1980) became chief of staff...
Nurses' uniforms became increasingly more practical and comfortable in the early 20th century. This humorous essay on the evolution of nurses' uniforms between 1903 and 1923 was published in the 1923 student yearbook (titled "The Thermometer") of...
After the death of President John F. Kennedy in Trauma Room #1 on November 22, 1963, staff of Parkland Memorial Hospital on Harry Hines Blvd. placed this bouquet of flowers on the door of the room. This image was digitized from a page in the...
The Florence Nightingale Maternity Hospital opened in 1937 on the campus of Baylor University Hospital. It was demolished in the 1950s and replaced by Baylor's Women's and Children's Hospital.
