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[Dr. G. T. Coleman Home in Marshall]

Description: This bungalow in Marshall, possibly Craftsman in its original form, has several later additions. It is located at 606 Sanford Street in the "New Town Neighborhood," a historic African-American community that developed around Wiley College from 1910-1950. The home was the residence of Dr. George T. Coleman. The physician also had a structure across the street at 607 Sanford that he used as a hospital for his patients. Some of his patients went to the Sheppard-Watts Sanitarium on S. Carter Str… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marshall Public Library

[Dr. Everett H. Leach, Harrison County Physician]

Description: Dr. Everett H. Leach, early African-American physician, was born in Marshall in 1879 or 1881 (tombstone date). He entered Bishop College at age twelve. He received his medical degree from Flynt Medical College in New Orleans. Later he studied at Illinois Post-Graduate School in Chicago. He settled in the rural Leigh community east of Marshall, where he built a practice, erected a drug store and office, and owned two farms. Later he moved to Marshall and commuted to Leigh by automobile. Acc… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marshall Public Library

[Dr. Everett H. Leach, Harrison County Physician]

Description: Dr. Everett H. Leach, African-American physician, was born in Marshall in 1879 or 1881 (tombstone date). He entered Bishop College at age twelve. He received his medical degree from Flynt Medical College in New Orleans. Later he studied at Illinois Post-Graduate School in Chicago. He settled in the rural Leigh community east of Marshall, where he built a practice, erected a drug store and office, and owned two farms. Later he moved to Marshall and commuted to Leigh by automobile. Accordin… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marshall Public Library

[Dr. Everett H. Leach, Harrison County Physician]

Description: Dr. Everett H. Leach, African-American physician, was born in Marshall in 1879 or 1881 (tombstone date). He entered Bishop College at age twelve. He received his medical degree from Flynt Medical College in New Orleans. Later he studied at Illinois Post-Graduate School in Chicago. He settled in the rural Leigh community east of Marshall, where he built a practice, erected a drug store and office, and owned two farms. Later he moved to Marshall and commuted to Leigh by automobile. Accordi… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marshall Public Library

[Dr. James R. Sheppard, Marshall Physician]

Description: Dr. James R. Sheppard was an African-American physician who established a hospital in Marshall in 1925. It was located at 606 S. Carter St. in the historic New Town Neighborhood in the western part of the city. It was called the Sheppard Sanitarium on the Sanborn Maps. Later the hospital was purchased by Dr. Williams Watts and renamed the Sheppard-Watts Hospital. Nothing more is known about Dr. Sheppard.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marshall Public Library

[Texas Doctors at Polyclinic Course]

Description: Copy print of eight doctors posing together around a cadaver on a table during a five-week course at the New York Polyclinic Medical School. The instructor is wearing a dark gown and cap, standing in the middle of the six doctors standing behind the table; the other doctors are all wearing light-colored gowns and one doctor is seated on either end at the front of the table. Behind them, framed images are hanging on the wall, and a blackboard with writing on it is at the right side of the imag… more
Date: May 1901
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Johnson County Historical Commission

[Doctors Robert and Larkin Harris]

Description: Cropped copy-print a photograph taken inside the medical office of brothers Robert L. and Larkin L. Harris. Near the center of the image, one brother is seated in front of a desk situated in a corner of the room and the other brother is facing him, seated in a rocking chair to the right. The room has patterned wallpaper, decorative rugs on the floor, and additional furniture around the edges of the image. Other information about the Harrises and the location are printed on the back.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Johnson County Historical Commission

[Medical Office of Dr. L. L. Harris]

Description: Reprint of a photograph taken outside the medical office of Dr. Larkin L. Harris in Cuba (Sand Flat), Texas. Dr. Harris is seated in a horse-drawn wagon at left, near the front porch where his wife (Nellie Gipson Goldman) is standing, and his sister-in-law (Catherine Goldman Smith) is holding the reins of a horse next to the fence on the left side of the image. The building is a small, one-story building with wood siding a Queen Anne-style embellishments including scalloped gable ends and jig… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Johnson County Historical Commission

The Medicine Man in Texas

Description: Book outlining the early history of medicine and of medical societies in Texas, along with brief biographical sketches of prominent physicians by county. It includes excerpts of newspaper articles, association meeting minutes, and other sources documenting practices over time.
Date: 1930
Creator: Red, Mrs. George Plunkett
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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