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-P176-001

Publication Date(s)

1930s

Language

English

Description

This is one of the 31 photographs taken or collected by Lela Smith Hickey while she was a nursing student at Memorial Hospital (Baptist Sanitarium) in 1932. See more at Lela Smith Hickey Collection, Memorial Hospital Photograph Collection, and its finding aid.

Keywords

Nursing students, Houston (TX), Memorial Hospital System, photographs » black-and-white photographs, snapshots

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