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[Fort Bliss Base Hospital]

This postcard depicts the Fort Bliss Base Hospital at Fort Bliss, Texas. The hospital is three stories high and made of brick and wood. Some furniture such as chairs and a table are visible on the second floor porch. In the background, other buildings are visible but have no identifying features. A soldier in uniform sitting atop a horse is situated in front of the hospital on the lawn. The soldier looks towards the camera.

Date: [1910..1920]

Creator: Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Ambulance Corps]

Photograph of Ambulance Corps #2 and Field Hospital Corps #2 in Pennsylvania. This postcard is addressed to Miss India McKenzie, 5922 – 457h Avenue SE, (unknown) City. The postcard is postmarked out of Portland, Oregon, 12 July 1917.

Date: [1910..1920]

Creator: Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Photograph of North Beach After Hurricane]

Photograph of the North Beach area after the 1919 hurricane in Corpus Christi. Inscription on the back of the photo, "Out near North Beach. The building is the Spohn Sanitarium which is one of the three buildings left on North Beach. Most of it is swept clean, even much of the wreckage."

Date: 1919

Creator: Shirkey, Marie

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Photograph of North Beach After 1919 hurricane]

Photograph of boards from destroyed buildings along the North Beach area of Corpus Christi after the hurricane of 1919. One building of the Spohn Sanitarium is in the right background of the photo. Inscription on the back of the photo, "Just a North Beach scene. Showing what is left of the Spohn Sanitarium. One of the three buildings left out there. This picture covers five or six blocks. (Maybe not over three you can hardly tell now.)"

Date: 1919

Creator: Shirkey, Marie

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Army Hospital]

Photograph of the Army Hospital after the hurricane of 1919 in Corpus Christi. Inscription on back of photo, " The remains of the Army Hospital (this used to be the Beach Hotel) These parts of the second story porch that are gone are concrete. Isn't much of the pretty lawn in sight now."

Date: 1919

Creator: Shirkey, Marie

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Debris around street and Spohn Sanitarium]

Photograph of debris strewn around a street in Corpus Christi, Texas around the time of a hurricane in 1919. Spohn Sanitarium can be seen in the background.

Date: 1919

Creator: Shirkey, Marie

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[Photograph of Parkland Hospital Facility]

Photograph of the 1901 Parkland Hospital Facility. Dr. John Hicks Florence, City of Dallas Health Officer, lived at the facility with his family. Dr. Florence is seen in the picture standing in front of a horse-drawn ambulance speaking to four nurses standing around a gurney. David Florence is sitting in the front of the ambulance, and Dr. Florence's family is standing on the porch. They are (left to right) Robert Best, Isabel Marie Best, Hughie Florence, unknown, John Florence, Louise Florence… more

Date: 1911

Creator: Hudson

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Historic Mesquite, Inc.

Apparatus for Enteric Lavage.

Patent for an enteric lavage for the use of emptying the bowels of any liquid after use of an enema. The device will remove the waste and deposit it into a separate receptacle.

Date: June 27, 1916

Creator: Pair, Laura Costello

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Photograph of Camp MacArthur Observation Ward]

Photograph of a hospital ward with rows of beds on either side of the long building, and soldiers, some in uniforms and others in gowns, in the middle of the room. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "Observation Ward, Camp McArthur."

Date: February 1918

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard for Mary Ann Moore, April 17, 1911]

This is a letter from the Charles B. Moore Collection. In this post card, Giselle D. writes to Mary Ann Moore discussing Moore's stay in the hospital. She hopes that Moore does not stay long in the hospital and expresses her wishes for a quick recovery.

Date: April 17, 1911

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Cora Robertson to Linnet White, March 18, 1917]

Letter to Linnet White from Cora Robertson. She wrote of an upcoming operation Linnet will be having in Omaha and of local news. She includes details about her children, someone who has moved into town and started up a new business, and the weather.

Date: March 18, 1917

Creator: Robertson, Cora

Item Type: Letter

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Hospital above drug store]

Postcard of a small hospital on the East side of the Square in Wellington, Texas. It is located above the Hardy O'Neil Drug Company store. There are other stores on both sides of the hospital.

Date: 1916

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Collingsworth County Museum

[82 Field Artillery]

Photograph of the 82nd field artillery marching by the Masonic Hospital. In the photograph are soldiers dressed in uniform; they are riding horses and walking with heavy weaponry. The Masonic Hospital stands in the background. Before becoming the Masonic Hospital, the hospital was known as the Rolston Hospital located at 918 N Pieras Street, corner of Montana Avenue in central El Paso. The hospital was bought by the Masons in 1923 and renamed the Masonic Hospital in that same year.

Date: 1919~

Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: El Paso Public Library

[King's Daughters Hopsital]

Postcard of a color image of the King's Daughters Hospital, a four-story brick building with three rows of large windows on the left and a white balcony and porch on the right, with trees in front of it and a white house on the right side. Printed on front of the postcard: "Main Building, King's Daughters Hospital, Temple, Tex."

Date: March 18, 1914

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Photograph of a Hospital in Veracruz, Mexico]

Photograph of a military hospital in Veracruz, Mexico; the walls of the building are shielded by large trees on the left and there are three men walking across the gap between buildings.

Date: 1912~

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

Wounded Man

Photograph of a wounded man. This unidentified wounded man is being carried into this building by several members of the Mexican Red Cross. During the Mexican Revolution, the Mexican Red Cross of Ciudad Juarez was also being assisted by doctors and nurses from El Paso. The man at the far right is wearing the medical Red Cross symbol on his left shoulder. How the wounded man received his injuries is not known nor can the severity of his injuries be determined from the angle of this photograp… more

Date: 1910/1920

Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: El Paso Public Library

Wounded Civilian

Photograph of a wounded civilian. The wounded man is being assisted by at least one member of the Mexican Red Cross. The injured man has suffered some type of serious injury to his left leg. The large bandage to his left leg indicates that he had probably received some kind of gunshot wound to that leg. This photo of this wounded man exiting the building, perhaps a hospital, was taken after the wounded man had received his medical attention and after the man had been bandaged up. The same … more

Date: 1910/1920

Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Postcard of Base Hospital at Camp MacArthur]

Postcard of large, interconnected buildings. A printed note under the photo describes it: "Base hospital, Camp MacArthur, Waco, Texas."

Date: 1917

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard of Base Hospital at Camp MacArthur]

Postcard of a row of interconnected buildings. A note below the photo says: "Base Hospital, Camp MacArthur. Waco, Texas."

Date: 1917

Creator: Gildersleeve

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Torbett Sanatorium and Majestic Hotel and Bathhouse]

Postcard of the Majestic Hotel and Bathhouse, Torbett Sanatorium, and Hot Well Pavilion in Marlin Texas. The illustration depicts two or three red brick buildings on the left side and center back of the image and a smaller tan building in the right foreground. The text, "Torbett Sanatorium, Majestic Hotel and Bathhouse, Hot Well Pavilion, Marlin, Texas" is printed in red across the top of the postcard. The correspondence on the back is addressed to "Mrs. E.P. Winters."

Date: August 29, 1913

Item Type: Postcard