McGovern Historical Center

McGovern Historical Center. Archives & Special Collections of the @TheTMCLibrary. Neutral observer #archives #medical #houston.

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Check out the latest from our blog, The Black Bag. We've just published a guide to the nearly 500 audiovisual items in the Hermann Hospital Historical Archive.

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The MHC’s Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission Collections not only document research activities, but also the lives of ABCC members and their families.

Kitasako, Koike, and Tom Umeda playing Go, probably at the ABCC Office in Hiroshima. IC 099

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#ArchivesGames ? We’ll take any chance to show Dr. Akio Awa’s cartoons.

Dr. Awa was head of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission’s Chromosome Section. His doodles from staff meetings give a sense of life and humor you’d never get from , say, annual reports.

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The papers of James “Red” Duke, Jr., MD, are now part of the MHC and open for research! Read more on our latest blog post.

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@memorialhermann @UTHealthHouston @UTHealthEM @TXMedCenter
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Warren S. Bellows Plaza, nine black and white photographs, circa 1970s. Views of the Plaza with fountain from ground level and roof of Favrot Hall.

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Happy #PreservationWeek !

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Heart Bulletin artwork Before/After:

Illustration, p. 84: “Doctor examining child” drawing by Jo Spier, for article "The Heart in Examination of School Children," Sept/Oct 1956, Box 11, Folder 30, IC 094 Medical Arts Publishing Foundation, McGovern Historical Center, TMC Library

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"Before and After" Heart Bulletin images:
[Illustration, p. 24: “Taxi cab” drawing with red overlay, from the article "Rehabilitation in Industry," January/February, 1957, Box 11, Folder 32, IC 094 Medical Arts Publishing Foundation, McGovern Historical Center, TMC Library]

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"Before and After" Heart Bulletin images:
Illustration, p. 111: “Pericardiectomy for Relief of Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis” X-ray image, November/December, 1955, Box 11, Folder 9, IC 094 Medical Arts Publishing Foundation, McGovern Historical Center, TMC Library

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Our latest blog post highlights newly digitized original artwork from the Heart Bulletin, 1950s-1960s. A trove of original artwork from the magazine now resides at the McGovern Historical Center.

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Scenes from the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission Statistics section and Histology Laboratory, 1960.

There's more to be found in IC 099, ABCC Photograph Collection, https://t.co/86rFpWLGo4 .

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Just in time for #archiveswomeninstem, #executiveleadershipinacademicmedicine, and #WomensHistoryMonth, we're happy to share newly digitized photos from
Murdina MacFarquhar Desmond, MD.

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One of the #archiveswomeninstem we're featuring at #executiveleadershipinacademicmedicine is Hilde Bruch, MD.

Dr. Bruch specialized in psychiatry at @bcmhouston.
In 1979 she published The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa.

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For our East Texas archives friends (or anyone open to travel), there's an Introduction to Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO) workshop at the University of Texas at Tyler on Monday, March 4th, 2024, from 10am-4pm.

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Dr. Armin Weinberg discusses an unprecedented peace mission to deliver medical supplies to Israelis and Palestinians in February 1999, 25 years ago today.

Features an interview with Debbie Goldberg of the Texas Hadassah Medical Research Foundation.

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The MHC invites you to #ColorOurCollections !

This week we join other cultural heritage institutions sharing coloring pages created from our historical materials. Ours feature artwork that appeared in the Heart Bulletin from 1955-1961 (IC 094).

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Keeping our #ArchivesASMR outdoors, let’s enjoy the low hum of background noise at last spring’s “Old Weird Houston” history fair. Area archives will return to the Orange Show on March 30, 2024. https://t.co/Qy1T6ElMRd #theorangeshow #oldweirdhouston #ArchivesHashtagParty

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This month’s #ArchivesHashtagParty theme is #archivesasmr (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response). While the MHC might not have the most scenic environs, we do enjoy our bird and insect sounds. #asmrvideo #birding #parkinglots #soundon

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The MHC will be closed closed Dec.22-Jan.1. But before we close up shop for the holidays, let's revisit these Christmas greetings from the archives. #Christmascards #Christmasbonus

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