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Hermann Hospital Radiology Department

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by Sandra Yates, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian
The TMC Library will be celebrating its centennial next year, and I’ve been searching high and low for images to adorn the website. These may or may not help the website, but I found a couple of great 1953 images from Hermann Hospital. Radiology was one of many areas of instruction at this teaching hospital. These images were for the 1952 Annual Report, which is available to read below.

Radiology Department X-ray Technicians are trained by Dr. Luther M. Vaughn, 1953. From left to right: Dr. Luther M. Vaughn, Nancy Rogers, Suzi MacAllister, and Margaret Echols, playing the patient is Walter Sterling. [McGovern Historical Center, Gift of Dr. Luther M. Vaughn, Photo Files, Institutions and Organizations, Hermann Hospital Radiology Department, 1953]
Radiology Department X-ray Technicians are trained by Dr. Luther M. Vaughn, 1953. From left to right: Dr. Luther M. Vaughn, Nancy Rogers, Suzi MacAllister, and Margaret Echols, playing the patient is Walter Sterling. [McGovern Historical Center, Gift of Dr. Luther M. Vaughn, Photo Files, Institutions and Organizations, Hermann Hospital Radiology Department, 1953]

Examining X-ray photographs at Hermann Hospital, 1953. Seated at left is a resident from Iraq, Dr. Mohamed Aba Tabik (Dr. Mo), standing is Dr. Luther Vaughn, seated facing the light stand is Dr. William Owsley. [McGovern Historical Center, Gift of Dr. Luther M. Vaughn, Photo Files, Medical Equipment and Apparatus, Hermann Hospital X-ray equipment, 1953]
Examining X-ray photographs at Hermann Hospital, 1953. Seated at left is a resident from Iraq, Dr. Mohamed Aba Tabik (Dr. Mo), standing is Dr. Luther Vaughn, seated facing the light stand is Dr. William Owsley. [McGovern Historical Center, Gift of Dr. Luther M. Vaughn, Photo Files, Medical Equipment and Apparatus, Hermann Hospital X-ray equipment, 1953]

Hermann Hospital Annual Report for 1952. The report highlights that it has been a teaching hospital since 1925. [McGovern Historical Center, Reference File, Hermann Hospital]
Hermann Hospital Annual Report for 1952. The report highlights that it has been a teaching hospital since 1925. [McGovern Historical Center, Reference File, Hermann Hospital]

Hermann Hospital was established in 1925 as specified in George H. Hermann’s will. Built on the out-skirts of Houston on a little dirt road called Fannin, it began as a private community hospital to serve the indigent population of the city as well as educate local healthcare providers. As The Hermann Horizons magazine states 50 years later:

When it opened its doors in 1925 at the edge of town on then-unpaved Fannin Street, Hermann became the cornerstone of what later was to grow into the world famous medical complex, The Texas Medical Center.

In the early years, patients rode street cars to the end of the Fannin line, then followed an oyster-shell walk to the hospital entrance. A sparkling fountain in the open courtyard greeted patients entering through the ornate wrought-iron doors. In the lobby, gently whirring ceiling fans stirred the air. – The Hermann Horizons, vol.3 no.1, Sept 1976

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