The Lucile Baird papers contains 13 photographs and 4 letters related to the Baptist Memorial Hospital (later Memorial Hospital). The photographs depict hospital staff, interns, nurses, and students. Robert Jolly and Lillian Wilson Burnett Jolly appear in a few photographs, and they are the correspondents with Lucile Baird. Letters include Christmas greeting cards and Baptist Hospital stationary. Photographs and letters appear to have annotations by the creator as well as her niece, Carol Wilde.
Carol Wilde, Lucile Baird's niece, mailed the photographs and letters to the archives. They arrived on September 8, 2022. This collection has been digitized in its entirety. Files are available online as well as on the McGovern Historical Center's Digital Collections. Details of the collection is available via its finding aid..
For additional questions about this collection, contact an archivist at 713-799-7145, 713-799-7165 or mcgovern@library.tmc.edu