St. Paul Sanitarium (renamed St. Paul Hospital in 1927) first opened in 1896 in this small wooden building on Hall Street. It was both hospital and home to the Daughters of Charity nursing sisters. This was the first private, not-for-profit...
Soldiers pose with nurses and Daughters of Charity sisters on the steps of the St. Paul Sanitarium on Bryan Street in 1918. These may have been soldiers who had recuperated from influenza at St. Paul, or they may have been men with a St. Paul...
In 1954, St. Paul Hospital became the first in Dallas to give courtesy privileges to African-American physicians to practice in the hospital. African-Americans could not join the medical staff of St. Paul or any other Dallas hospital until the...
Although the St. Paul Training School for Nurses opened in 1900, it did not have its own building until 1922, when the St. Paul Nurses' Home and School building opened at 3218 San Jacinto Street on the St. Paul campus. This photograph shows a...
Although the St. Paul Training School for Nurses opened in 1900, it did not have its own building until 1922, when the St. Paul Nurses' Home and School building opened at 3218 San Jacinto Street on the St. Paul campus. Nursing students had...
A 1936 surgical operation at St. Paul Hospital is observed by student nurses, with a nursing sister in the background. (Note: Prior to 1927, St. Paul Hospital was known as St. Paul Sanitarium.)
This circa 1995 photo shows St. Paul Hospital (as it was known in 1995) on Harry Hines Blvd. Founded in 1896 by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul, St. Paul moved from its Bryan Street location to its new building on Harry Hines Blvd....
In addition to their work in St. Paul Hospital itself, the Daughters of Charity sisters also visited needy families in the community. In this photo, Sister Alice Huth visits a low-income mother and child. Sister Alice wears the distinctive...
This 2006 photo shows St. Paul University Hospital on Harry Hines Blvd. Founded in 1896 by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul. St. Paul moved from its Bryan Street location to its new building on Harry Hines Blvd. in 1964. In 2000, UT...
In this photo, Daughters of Charity sisters pose on the lawn of St. Paul Sanitarium with two soldiers, one in front of an automobile. During the 1918 influenza epidemic, soldiers who became ill at Fort Dick (located on land that is now Dallas' Fair...
As this membership certificate demonstrates, St. Paul Hospital, in the 1930's St. Paul Hospital offered "memberships" which entitled the member to specified hospital services for a fee of $9 per year.
Two members of the St. Paul Auxiliary (unidentified on the left, Mary Helen Bell on the right ), push the "Comfort Cart" with small items for sale to patients. The money raised by the sales was donated to St. Paul.
This close-up of the St. Paul entry stairway and porch appears to have been taken after the building was vacated, as evidenced by the debris on the landing and the weeds growing in front of the first step shown. Though the name was changed to St....
Two sisters of St. Paul's Daughters of Charity order, along with a man, observe progress on the steel frame of the new St. Paul Hospital on Harry Hines Blvd. The Daughters of Charity wore the distinctive "cornette" headpieces until September 20,...
This 13-bed intensive care unit in the St. Paul Hospital on Harry Hines Blvd. was designed with patient rooms arrayed around a central nurses' area. There were two intensive care units: one for surgical patients and one for medical patients. This...
Dr. Emmett J. Conrad (born 1923, died 1993) was an African-American surgeon and civic leader who joined the staff of St. Paul Hospital in 1956. He was the first African-American surgeon on the St. Paul staff, and later (1980) became chief of staff...
A patient in an orthopedics bed is loaded off a truck at the new St. Paul after the ride from the old St. Paul building on Bryan Street. This patient is one of 108 moved from the old building to the new one on December 22, 1963, though all...
In 1918, while the United States was fighting World War I in Europe, an influenza epidemic swept the world. In Dallas, 7,000 were sickened and over 20 died. Soldiers were particulary susceptible because they lived in close quarters. Soldiers who...
In 1918, while the United States was fighting World War I in Europe, an influenza epidemic swept the world. In Dallas, 7,000 were sickened and over 20 died. Soldiers were particularly susceptible because they lived in close quarters. So many...
This color photo shows the side of St. Paul Hospital as seen from the vicinity of Inwood Road. At the left edge of the photo is the entrance to St. Paul's chapel.
A student nurse walks past the front entrance of St. Paul Hospital. The wool cape she is wearing was part of the standard uniform for students in the St. Paul School of Nursing.
A new, 110-bed St. Paul Sanitarium opened on Bryan Street in 1898. It was state-of-the-art for its day, with elevators, electric and gas lights, electric call bells, radiators and fireplaces for heating, and bathrooms with hot and cold running...
This is an early view of St. Paul Sanitarium's 1898 building. The top level of the porch on the Pavillion Street side of St. Paul was originally open, as shown in this photo, then later rebuilt with rounded corners and a roof over the top level.
Labor room in St. Paul Hospital on Harry Hines Blvd. This photo appeared in "The Texas Catholic" newspaper, January 18, 1964, special section on St. Paul, page 5, wit the caption: "Labor rooms in the maternity section are furnished in maple, have...
St. Paul Hospital named its executive suite the "Kennedy Suite," in honor of the President who was tragically assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963, just before St. Paul opened. In this photo, a nurse gazes out the window of the Kennedy Suite...
In the old St. Paul Sanitarium, the chart desk--the equivalent of today's nursing unit--was a center of activity. In this photo, two St. Paul nurses are recording the progress of their patients. On the wall are patient call buttons which alerted...
St. Paul Sanitarium on Bryan Street nurses are shown marching in the "Preparedness Parade of Dallas." The nurse in the lead carries a pennant which reads, "Nurses of St. Paul's." The United States' involvement in World War I inspired a burst of...
A student at St. Paul School of Nursing (on the right--identified by her sweater with "St. Paul" patch on the front) assists an unidentified woman at a food drive.
This photomontage shows interior and exterior views of the St. Paul Nurses' Home and School building, which opened in 1922 at 3218 San Jacinto Street. Before this building opened, nursing students had lived in a top-floor dormitory in the...
In this photo, the St. Paul Training School for Nurses class of 1924 members are posed in front of the stairway leading to the nurses' home. The inclusion of three males in the class is unusual. Males were admitted to the School from 1913 to 1928...
The St. Paul Free Clinic--the first free clinic in Dallas--was begun in 1906. By the late 1930s, the clinic was treating over 65,000 patients a year. The clinic building described in this "Dallas Morning News" article was completed in 1937 on the...
In 1900, St. Paul Sanitarium opened Dallas' first "Training School for Nurses." The first three nurses graduated in 1903 and are posed in the front row, with the nursing students behind them. The black ribbons on the graduates' hats indicate they...
A doctor, nursing sister, and nurse attend to babies in the St. Paul Hospital nursery. The nursing sister is wearing the distinctive "cornette" headpiece that the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul wore until September 20, 1964.
In 1929, St. Paul Hospital established the Marillac Free Clinic for the medically-underserved Spanish-speaking community in the "Little Mexico" neighborhood. This photo shows the Clinic in 1942. In front of the car are (from left to right) a...
Children are examined by a Daughter of Charity nursing sister and weighed by a nurse in St. Paul Hospital's Marillac Free Clinic. The Clinic served the Spanish-speaking Mexican-American community.
Two Daughters of Charity sisters stand in an unfinished room of the new St. Paul Hospital building on Harry Hines Blvd. The Daughters of Charity wore the distinctive "cornette" headpieces until September 20, 1964.
In this photo, Sister Elizabeth Steiner, chief administrator of St. Paul Hospital, stands with blueprints in hand under the front entrance canopy of the unfinished hospital. The Daughters of Charity wore the distinctive "cornette" headpieces until...
Sister Elizabeth Steiner of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent DePaul--the order that operated St. Paul Hospital--was administrator of the hospital during the planning and construction of the new building on Harry Hines Blvd. In this photo,...
A Daughter of Charity sister distributes small packets to four nurses in the cafeteria of St. Paul Hospital on Harry Hines Blvd. The sister is wearing the distinctive "cornette" headpiece that was in use by the Daughters of Charity until September...
In this photo, the 1913 graduates of the St. Paul Training School for Nurses are posed in a kitchen setting, with food trays on the table in front of them. A Daughter of Charity sister, most likely Sister Juletta, School Director, stands at the...
This photo shows a groundbreaking ceremony, with about fourteen Daughters of Charity sisters and (at the extreme left) four nurses or nursing students, and a woman in street clothes. Given the large number of sisters, it seems unlikely this was the...
This photo shows an employee named Sue Upton (identified on back of photo) at unidentified piece of equipment in the St. Paul Hospital pathology laboratory.
When this photo was taken in 1964, the St. Paul Hospital building on Harry Hines Blvd. and its Chapel of St. Catherine were brand new, having just been completed within the year.
