Sandra Yates Archivist and Special Collections Librarian As the centennial year of the Texas Medical Center Library comes to a close, we at the McGovern Historical Center have found a fitting send off. In February 1974, Don Macon interviewed Dr. Jared E. Clarke for the Texas Medical Center Historical Resources Project. The goal of the… Continue Reading Dr. Jared E. Clarke & the Library […]
Voice of Bertner
Sandra YatesArchivist and Special Collections Librarian Bertner Avenue runs north and south through the heart of the Texas Medical Center. And at 1.4 miles long, it is one of the longer streets in the TMC. It starts in the north at Baylor College of Medicine and John Freeman Boulevard and ends in the south at… Continue Reading Voice of Bertner […]
Centennial Photo Display: 1970’s, Part III
Alethea Drexler archives assistant Everybody sing! “Don’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky . . . stormy weather . . . ” Life in the Medical Center wasn’t all macramé room dividers and bright green armchairs in the 1970’s: There was rain. A lot of rain. The Library addition was barely dry… Continue Reading Centennial Photo Display: 1970’s, Part III […]
Centennial Photo Display: 1970’s, Part II
Alethea Drexler archives assistant The Library built a major addition to the original 1954 building in 1974. P-2952, the addition behind the preexisting Library, soon after it opened. P-2592 the unfinished first floor. The stairway at right leads down to the street level where the computer lab, classrooms, vending machine cubby, and some of the… Continue Reading Centennial Photo Display: 1970’s, Part II […]
Centennial Photo Display: 1970's, Part I
Alethea Drexler Archives assistant Aerial view, 1973. The Library, center, is preparing to receive its addition. The forward-facing “wings” were added to Hermann Hospital (lower left) a year or so earlier. P-815 San Jacinto Lung Association mobile respiratory disease screening unit, 1973. This is an early-1960’s GMC school-type bus converted to house x-ray equipment. P-3069… Continue Reading Centennial Photo Display: 1970's, Part I […]
Centennial Photo Display: 1960's, Part III
Alethea Drexler archives assistant We had room in the case so we went back and added a few more. Two more Joseph Schwarting illustrations. The girl with the umbrella is particularly charming: The machine at right in the image below appears to be a Travenol-type artificial kidney. Hemodilaysis machines were invented in the Netherlands in… Continue Reading Centennial Photo Display: 1960's, Part III […]
Centennial Photo Display: 1960's, Part II
Alethea Drexler archives assistant Last month’s image exhibit talked a little bit about the high rate of poliomyelitis in the Houston area during the 1940’s and 1950’s, and some of the institutions that sought to treat and rehabilitate its victims. The following series is from the Victory Over Polio campaign, which set out to mass-vaccinate… Continue Reading Centennial Photo Display: 1960's, Part II […]
Centennial Photo Display: 1960’s, Part I
Alethea Drexler archives assistant July’s photo exhibit had to be trimmed down, but don’t worry–it’s for a good cause. We need the display space for a traveling exhibit. More on that later. Among the landmark events in the 1960’s: The Friends of the Texas Medical Center Library was founded in 1960[1] and continues to provide… Continue Reading Centennial Photo Display: 1960’s, Part I […]
Centennial Photo Display: 1950’s, Part II
The Heart Bulletin was published by the Medical Arts Publishing Foundation in Houston from 1952 to 1971. The back cover of every issue featured cartoons of red arteries and blue veins that playfully illustrate the principles of cardiovascular medicine. Each illustration has a quote about cardiovascular theory from notable philosopher or physician. Joseph Schwarting, once… Continue Reading Centennial Photo Display: 1950’s, Part II […]
Centennial Photo Display: 1950’s, Part I
by Alethea Drexler archives assistant Aficionados of midcentury modern architecture, hold onto your hats. . . . as was almost everything else in the Texas Medical Center during the 1950’s. This somewhat tipsy 1954 aerial includes, from left, Texas Children’s Hospital, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Methodist Hospital, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in the foreground, the… Continue Reading Centennial Photo Display: 1950’s, Part I […]