Woodlawn Hospital was the Tuberculosis Unit of the Dallas County Hospital System, which also included Parkland Hospital on Maple Avenue. Residents and interns of Parkland's Medicine Service were rotated through Woodlawn Hospital for training, as...
Parkland Hospital opened a School of Nursing in 1914. Hospital-based nursing schools were common in this era, and students served as ward nurses in their respective hospitals. In 1921, a home for the nurses and student nurses was opened adjacent to...
In 1954, Parkland Hospital moved into a new building on Harry Hines Blvd. The same year, the word Memorial was added to Parkland's name to commemorate those who died in World War II. The new Parkland was adjacent to the planned new home of...
Some businesses in the vicinity of Parkland Hospital on Maple Avenue incorporated the Parkland name into their own. The Parkland Grocery & Market was located at 3824 Maple Avenue, according to the 1941 "Dallas City Directory." Parkland's name was...
Parkland Hospital opened a School of Nursing in 1914. In 1921, this home for the nurses and student nurses was built adjacent to Parkland. The architect was Herbert M. Greene, whose firm also designed the Parkland’s 1913 brick building. A third...
Some businesses in the vicinity of Parkland Hospital on Maple Avenue incorporated the Parkland name into their own. The Parkland Barbeque was located at 3816 Maple Avenue (between Oak Lawn and Shelby) according to the 1941 "Dallas City Directory."...
This 1993 book by Ronald ("Skip") F. Garvey, M.D., M.B.A., with Charles R. Baxter, M.D., M.T. (“Pepper”) Jenkins M.D., and Robert N. McClelland, M.D. was published jointly by the Department of Surgery at UT Southwestern and the Parkland...
This advertisement for Parkland Hospital was published in the "Texas Health Journal," v. 7, December, 1894. Parkland advertised in order to fill its private wards with paying patients, who were charged $7 to $12 per week for the room, nurse, meals,...
Shortly after Parkland Memorial Hospital moved to its Harry Hines Blvd. campus in 1954, Southwestern Medical School completed its first building on its new campus adjacent to Parkland. In this photo, a crowd is gathered in front of Southwestern's...
In 1962, Parkland Memorial Hospital created one of the largest adult civilian burn units in the country by setting aside sixteen beds with their own nursing station for burn patients. Pioneering burn therapies developed at Parkland have been...
This photo records an event not seen at Parkland Hospital prior to 1964: African-American and white patients waiting together in the same line at the hospital's outpatient clinic. Parkland patient areas were racially segregated until 1964. Prior to...
These two photos of the wood-frame Parkland Hospital on Maple Avenue were published in the Baylor University College of Medicine Annual Announcement for 1903-1904. The upper photo shows the Parkland building in a grove of trees. The lower photo...
This article recounts the experiences of the author, Louise Florence Berthold, as a child living with her family at Parkland Hospital from 1898 to 1902. Her father, John Hicks Florence, was City Health Officer at the time. The article was published...
In this photo, 1941 graduates of the Parkland School of Nursing who have volunteered for the Army Nursing Service stand in a 'V' (for 'Victory') formation and salute the camera, with an American flag in the middle. Some nursing students had their...
This photo of a surgical operation in progress was digitized from the 1952 Parkland School of Nursing yearbook (titled "The White Cap"). Note the open window at the left, indicating there was no air conditioning in the operating room. Air...
Dr. William Lee Hudson stands with Parkland School of Nursing students on the front steps of Parkland Hospital on Maple Avene. The photo is inscribed, "To our sponsor, Senior Class '38'." Dr. Hudson was chief of Surgery at Parkland Hospital from...
Parkland Memorial Hospital's Trauma Room #1 was the scene of heroic but unsuccessful efforts to save President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Texas Governor John Connally, gravely wounded along with Kennedy, was treated in an adjacent trauma...
Patients wait for care in a Parkland Hospital clinic, with hospital staff in a caged area. The signs over the windows of the caged area read, from left to right, "White"; "Colored" and "Cashier." The signs are a reminder that racial segregation of...
After the death of President John F. Kennedy in Trauma Room #1 on November 22, 1963, staff of Parkland Memorial Hospital on Harry Hines Blvd. placed this bouquet of flowers on the door of the room. This image was digitized from a page in the...
Parkland Hospital occupied this brick building at 3819 Maple Avenue from 1913 to 1954. The center section, with the impressive main entrance, was opened in 1913. Wings were added to the side and back through the years as the need for space...
Parkland Hospital occupied this brick building at 3819 Maple Avenue from 1913 to 1954. The center section, with the grand main entrance, was opened in 1913. Wings added to the side and back through the years as the need for space increased.
Parkland Hospital occupied this brick building at 3819 Maple Avenue from 1913 to 1954. The center section, with the grand main entrance, was opened in 1913. Wings were added to the side and back through the years as the need for space increased....
Parkland Hospital occupied this brick building at 3819 Maple Avenue from 1913 to 1954. The center section, with the impressive main entrance, was opened in 1913. Wings were added to the side and back through the years as the need for space...
Parkland Hospital occupied this brick building at 3819 Maple Avenue from 1913 to 1954. The center section, with the grand main entrance, was opened in 1913. Wings were added to the side and back through the years as the need for space increased....
The Parkland Hospsital Nurses' Home opened in 1921. A third story was added in 1936. This photo shows the Nurses' Home after the the addtion of the third story. In this era, it was common for hospitals to provide housing for nurses and students in...
"Victory Huts" were prefabricated buildings developed during World War II as a method of providing quick housing for soldiers. The white "Victory Huts" behind the Parkland Nurses' Home are believed to have been used first as housing for recovering...
This aerial view shows Parkland Hospital before Southwestern Medical College's prefabricated plywood buildings were added behind the hospital along Oak Lawn Avenue. The Nurses' Home is at the upper right. Today a DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit)...
This aerial view shows Parkland Hospital after Southwestern Medical College's prefabricated plywood buildings (often called "the shacks") were added behind the hospital along Oak Lawn Avenue. Today a DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) rail line runs...
This view shows Parkland Memorial Hospital shortly after it opened in 1954, as viewed from the southeast, just off Harry Hines Blvd. The low wing on the left housed the outpatient clinic.
This view shows Parkland Memorial Hospital (opened in 1954) on the right, with the Southwestern Medical School's Cary Building, which opened in 1955 (lower building, behind utility building) and Hoblitzelle Building, which opened in 1958 (taller...
In the early 1960s, Parkland Memorial Hospital added three stories to the original seven stories of its main building, which had been completed in 1954. The difference in the color of brick between the old and the new construction is evident in the...
In the early 1960's, Parkland Memorial Hospital added three stories to the original seven stories of its main building. The difference in the color of brick between the old and the new construction is evident in this photo, especially on the end of...
In this photo, the emergency room entrance is seen at the front of Parkland Memorial Hospital, under the entry lobby. The emergency room was later relocated to the back of the hospital.
This photo shows the Southwestern Medical School's Danciger Building (completed in 1965) connecting Parkland Memorial Hospital with the other two major buildings of the medical school campus.
This photo shows Parkland Memorial Hospital on the left, with Southwestern Medical School's Danciger Building (completed in 1965) connecting it to the other major buildings of the Southwestern Medical School's campus.
In this photo, Parkland's Staff Residence Building (now called Support Services Building) is visible in the lower left corner, and Southwestern Medical School's Cary and Hoblitzelle Buildings are visible in the upper right.
William F. Mengert, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Southwestern Medical School, conducts a "ward class" in Parkland Hospital. Medical students, interns and/or residents accompany a physician on rounds in the ward to discuss the care...
Surgeons at work surround a transplant patient at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Note the heart-lung pump in the foreground. This photo is one of a group labeled "Transplant."
In this photo of a transplant operation at Parkland Memorial Hospital, a technician attends to the heart-lung machine. This photo is one of a group labeled "Transplant."
"Hospital Highlights" was the title of the Parkland Memorial Hospital in-house newsletter. This issue dated December 9, 1963 contains text and photos recounting the events around the treatment of President John F. Kennedy and Texas Governor John...
This photo was digitized from the 1950 Parkland School of Nursing yearbook (titled "The White Cap"), where the caption reads, "Operating Room." The staff are identified as (left to right: Arlin Braunschweig, Joyce (T-Bone) Johnston, Wilma...
This photo was digitized from the 1950 Parkland School of Nursing yearbook (titled "The White Cap"), where the caption reads, "Drug Room." The staff are identified as "Mr. Sam M. Champion; Pharmacist, A. S. Owens, and L. B. Holmes." Note the mortar...
In the 1940's and early 1950s, polio--also called "infantile paralysis"--was epidemic in Dallas and the rest of the United States. The disease paralyzed muscles, including those controlling breathing. Some patients required a mechanical ventilator,...
This photo was digitized from the 1955 Parkland School of Nursing yearbook (titled "The White Cap"). The caption in the yearbook reads, "Community Health: The many problems faced by a community in maintaining its sanitary needs are introduced to...
This photo was digitized from the 1955 Parkland School of Nursing yearbook (titled "The White Cap"). The caption in the yearbook reads, "Diet Therapy--This course promotes an understanding of the importance of diet therapy and its relation to...
This photo was digitized from the 1955 Parkland School of Nursing yearbook (titled "The White Cap"). The caption in the yearbook identifies each intern.
