By Matt Richardson, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian Did you set a New Year’s Resolution to finally organize your closet or garage? Well, that’s pretty much what your friendly neighborhood MHC archivists have been up to with our digitized images. The McGovern Historical Center has accumulated a pretty good assortment of scanned images over the years. […]
by Shannon Wood, Archives Intern Today we would like to highlight another woman of color physician from early Texas medicine. Parts of her story, like many others, can be found in IC 058 Texas State Board of Medical Examiners records at the McGovern Historical Center. Petra Bonilla Toral was born January 30, 1866 in the […]
by Matt Richardson, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, with thanks to Adrian Melissinos, Ph.D., R.N. Professor Emerita Marianne Taft Marcus, Ed.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., of the University of Texas at Houston School of Nursing passed away January 16, 2022. Dr. Marcus served as the John P. McGovern Distinguished Professor of Addiction Nursing and Director of […]
![Banner image of Carrie Jane Sutton, 1921. [IC 058 Texas State Board of Medical Examiners records, McGovern Historical Center, Texas Medical Center Library]](https://library.tmc.edu/mcgovern/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2022/02/IC058-b86f15-001_banner.jpg)
by Shannon Wood, Archives Intern February 8 is National Black Women Physicians Day! This day was chosen because it is also the birthday of Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first Black woman physician in the United States. To celebrate, we wanted to highlight one of many (many) amazing Black women physicians in early Texas. 1954 […]
by Matt Richardson, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian. Archivists from the McGovern Historical Center (MHC) will present a virtual brown-bag at noon on Tuesday, February 8. Faculty, researchers, and staff across the Texas Medical Center are making history every day. Archivists can help preserve that history by ensuring that these stories are documented and accessible […]
By Matt Richardson, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian The McGovern Historical Center is proud to announce the opening of a new exhibit at the TMC Library. This exhibit celebrates the life and work of one of the Texas Medical Center’s founders and strongest champions, Dr. Ernst Bertner. Presented in two sections, the exhibit uses materials […]
By Sandra Yates, Head of McGovern Historical Center We created a short, 5-minute video to give you a taste of the great audiovisual materials that we have at the McGovern Historical Center. The video contains clips from four films and one phonograph record preserved in the archives, dating from 1947-1969. The video showcase highlights the […]
![Mental Health Association of Houston and Harris County (HD). [Screenshot from "Help Wanted" (1958), AVF.MS238.001, MS 238 Films on Mental Health provided by Bill Schnapp, McGovern Historical Center, Texas Medical Center Library]](https://library.tmc.edu/mcgovern/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/11/vlcsnap-2021-11-05-12h40m55s172-1024x768.png)
by Sandra Yates, Head of McGovern Historical Center The holidays came early to the archives! We sent the 16mm film, “Help Wanted” (1958), to the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) for a fresh new high-definition scan. The film returned safely from Austin with a hard drive containing a 18 GB video file. TAMI […]
By Matt Richardson, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian In a recent post, we shared the newly published finding aids for the archival collections of three prominent Houston doctors. Well, if three doctors aren’t enough for you—how about 6,000? Powered by a tremendous effort from Archives Assistant Gina Leonard, the McGovern Historical Center has published a […]
by Matt Richardson, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian Did you know that October is American Archives Month? On top of that, it’s also National Medical Librarians Month! On October 13, the McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center joined the larger archives community on Twitter in celebration of #AskAnArchivist Day. We also took to the streets–ok, […]