Memorial Hospital “Quiet Zone”, 1940

Creator

Memorial Hospital System

Author Biographical Info

Founded on September 1, 1907 as the Baptist Sanitarium, Memorial Hospital began as a two-story, wood-framed building at the end of the trolley line on Lamar and Smith. It had 17 beds and eight trained nurses on staff. It was the second general hospital established in Houston after St. Joseph Hospital which opened in 1887. It was also the second Baptist-supported hospital in the United States.

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Identifier

IC103-P287-001

Publication Date(s)

1940

Language

English

Description

Two 1939 Oldsmobiles and a 1938 Ford parked out front. See more at Memorial Hospital Photograph Collection and its finding aid.

Copyright

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Memorial Hospital System, "Memorial Hospital “Quiet Zone”, 1940" (1940). Library Exhibit Images. 294.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/exhibit_construction/294