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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Centennial Photo Display: 1940's, Part II
Alethea Drexler archives assistant Opening day of Baylor College of Hermann Hospital’s Corbin and Wilhelmina Robinson Pavilion, 1949. This addition doubled the number of beds available at Hermann [McGovern Historical Collections P-882]. The new building, with the Hermann Professional Building in the distance to the left. The autoclave room. The cafeteria. (Industrial kitchens have changed […]
Centennial Photo Display: 1940's, Part I
Alethea Drexler archives assistant The 1940’s were big years for the Texas Medical Center. To begin with, there now was a Medical Center: The Texas Medical Center was planned in the early 1940’s by the trustees of the M.D. Anderson Foundation, to be located on land purchased from the city, next to Hermann Hospital and […]
Centennial Photo Display: 1930's
Alethea Drexler archives assistant Pendleton & Arto, Inc. medical supplies, January 1930 Houston’s Medical Arts Building (1926-1980’s) housed physicians’ and dentists’ offices, and related businesses such as this medical supplier. “Vivian Maddox, medical records librarian, and hospital ‘sweetheart’.” (undated, circa 1938) IC 086 Hermann Hospital archives P-box 2 folder 6 Hermann Hospital apparently kept a […]
Metadata Team in Japan
By Philip Montgomery Head of the McGovern Historical Center In the last week of January, Owen Ellard, the Chief Operating Officer of the TMC Library, Sandra Yates, the archivist and special collections librarian, and I traveled to Gakushuin University in Tokyo as guests of the university as part of an ongoing project to digitize the […]
Centennial: Photo Display, Part II
Grand Central Railroad Station, circa 1900-1915 [1] – 431 Franklin Street (near I-45 and Washington Avenue). Built in 1887, replaced in the 1934 by the Art Deco station that is now incorporated into Minute Maid Park, and demolished in 1960[3]. For many years, Houston advertised itself as “The City Where 17 Railroads Meet the Sea” […]
Centennial: Photo Display, Part I
Alethea Drexler archives assistant Let the Centennial celebration begin! We have a new display in the Library lobby of photographs of Houston in the early twentieth century. Most of them are not directly related to medicine; there are a few of George Hermann and of some of the early hospitals, but the rest are simply […]
Winter morning glory
By Philip Montgomery Head of the McGovern Historical Collections The Christmas season is here along with damp, grey skies. My to-do list is longer than usual, and my cure for holiday despair is eating sweets or spending money. First of all I am grateful I can do both, but neither one is a cure for what ails […]