by Alethea Drexler Archives assistant We have a new toy at the Research Center, and just in time for Hallowe’en! Archivist Phil Montgomery joined our department this past spring after a stretch with the Woodson Research Center at Rice University. In the 1920’s, the Woodson was home to the Rice Parasite Museum, which Phil says… Continue Reading Medical moulage […]
Writing Home: Selections from the Texas Hospital Postcard Collection
by Alethea Drexler archives assistant The McGovern Research Center’s collection of postcards of Texas hospitals has been online for quite a while, and can be accessed through our website. Our postcard images are arranged alphabetically by town, and you can see scans of both sides of the card. Most cards are still blank on the… Continue Reading Writing Home: Selections from the Texas Hospital Postcard Collection […]
Baptist Sanitarium student nurses album, circa 1918
by Alethea Drexler archives assistant I’m going to take a little bit of a detour this Friday and do a posting on another of my favorites from the historical collections. The following images are a small selection from a photo album that belongs to the Memorial Hospital collection. The nutshell history of the Memorial Healthcare… Continue Reading Baptist Sanitarium student nurses album, circa 1918 […]
Thingamajig: Correction
It seems there was a bit of a misunderstanding regarding Friday’s magneto posting. Brenda had already written an excellent posting on the magneto and had it waiting in the Institutional Collections folder, and somehow, I missed the memo. Doh! She invited us to pick and choose, but I’m going to provide her work in its… Continue Reading Thingamajig: Correction […]
Thingamajig
by Alethea Drexler Archives assistant The verdict on what, exactly, is the previous Thingamajig–the dental item with the green glass bottle–has not yet come back. I emailed the pictures to my uncle, who is a dentist, and he printed them out to ask around at the dental school to see if anyone recognizes it. If… Continue Reading Thingamajig […]
Thingamajig
Alethea Drexler, archives assistant. This week’s Thingmajig is part of our collection of items donated at some uncertain time, by an unknown donor, without any documentation. Once again: We don’t know what this is. We know that it’s related to the dental profession, but that’s about it. It’s very heavy for its size (it’s only… Continue Reading Thingamajig […]
Thingamajig: Hermann Hospital, 1949
by Alethea Drexler archives assistant I spent a good part of this week unscrambling a box of photographs that had gotten caught up in a re-organization project of some sort, ages ago. Luckily, there weren’t very many pictures involved, although cross-checking them against the card catalog (in two series!) and the online catalog was a… Continue Reading Thingamajig: Hermann Hospital, 1949 […]
Thingamajig
by Alethea Drexler Archives assistant In the spirit of vintage Thingamajig, we present to you . . . something. This was given to the Research Center by Dr. Frank C. Arnett (it even has his name engraved on it). It’s about seven inches long and made of metal (probably stainless steel), with a black rubber… Continue Reading Thingamajig […]
UT Dental School’s toilet tissue issue.
By Kristin Smits University of North Texas graduate student in Library Science (Kristin is doing a practicum at the McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center. She processed the UT Dental Branch collection as part of her work here.) The images of correspondence at the bottom of this entry are about students getting out of sorts… Continue Reading UT Dental School’s toilet tissue issue. […]
Thingamajig: medication packaging
By Alethea Drexler Archives Assistant For this week’s Thingamajig, I dug out some of the more picturesque vintage medication packages. Sometime, seemingly in the 1940’s or 1950’s, medication boxes and bottles started to look very much like modern boxes and bottles, but some of the older examples are pretty artistic. (These photographs have been spliced… Continue Reading Thingamajig: medication packaging […]