by Sandra Yates, Head of McGovern Historical Center We’ve have been posting to this site since March 2010, 14 years! From this point forward, we will be posting exclusively on our main website. Please visit us there for all our…
Selections from the Papers of Murdina MacFarquhar Desmond, MD Digitized and Online
By Joy Oria, Archives Intern Almost two hundred items from the Murdina MacFarquhar Desmond, MD papers have been digitized and are now available online. Dr. Desmond (1916-2003) contributed to the fields of pediatrics and neonatology during her long tenure (1948-1986)…
Tagged with: digitized, hospital nurseries, pediatricians, WAVES
Posted in Digital Collection, Images, Manuscript Collection, Medical Archives, TMC Leaders, Women in Medicine
Posted in Digital Collection, Images, Manuscript Collection, Medical Archives, TMC Leaders, Women in Medicine
25 years later: we still care about innocent Palestinians
![Debbie Goldberg, Executive Director of Texas Hadassah Medical Research Foundation, stands as medical supplies are unloaded from plane behind her at Yasser Arafat International Airport in Gaza on February 9, 1999. [IC 105 Texas Hadassah Medical Research Foundation records, McGovern Historical Center, TMC Library, IC105-024]](https://mcgovernhrc.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/ic105-024.jpg?w=605)
by Armin Weinberg, PhD, Guest Contributor I’ve had the pleasure of working with the staff at the McGovern Historical Center for several years. The opportunity to place articles, notes, correspondence, photos, equipment, and books related to the academic and research…
#ColorOurCollections
By Matt Richardson, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian. The McGovern Historical Center invites you to #ColorOurCollections! This week the MHC joins other libraries, archives, and cultural heritage institutions sharing coloring pages created from our historical materials. This is the MHC’s…
Tagged with: art, artwork, coloring book, heart art, Heart Bulletin, Medical Arts Publishing
Posted in Digital Collection, Education & Outreach, Institutional Collection, Medical Archives
Posted in Digital Collection, Education & Outreach, Institutional Collection, Medical Archives
Remembering the Benevolent Benefactor, Kathrine G. McGovern: A Quiet Force in Houston’s Transformation
By Tara Carron, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian. The name “McGovern” is etched across major establishments and institutions all over the sprawling city of Houston, ranging from medical schools and art colleges, the zoo, a beautiful lake, as well as…
Posted in John P. McGovern, MD
The Christmas Bonus
By Matt Richardson, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian. After processing the Lucille Baird papers, we noticed the handful of letters that had been saved weren’t just any old correspondence—they were actually Christmas greetings. The cards and letters came from Robert…
Tagged with: christmas, holiday, xmas
Posted in Digital Collection, Hospitals, Manuscript Collection, Women in Medicine
Posted in Digital Collection, Hospitals, Manuscript Collection, Women in Medicine
The 153 Marmoset and the Mystery of the Handwritten Book: Stories from an Addendum to the UT Dental Branch Collection
![[Cover page. Report of the Director, 1969-1973, Box 30, Folder 14, IC 009 University of Texas Dental Branch records, McGovern Historical Center, Texas Medical Center Library]](https://mcgovernhrc.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dental-report-big.jpg?w=605)
By Johana Canales, Archives Intern. The University of Texas Dental Branch records arrived at the McGovern Historical Center in 2010. Sometime after those records were processed and made available for research, a few more boxes made their way to the…
Tagged with: archives, dental, library, processed, special-collections, texas
Posted in Institutional Collection, Medical Archives
Posted in Institutional Collection, Medical Archives
Newly Digitized: Vinyls!
By Tara Carron, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian. Recently, the McGovern Historical Collection acquired several items that, as an archivist, I consider to be exciting acquisitions, as they are quite unique in the context of a medical archives: Dr. Denton…
John P. McGovern Museum of Health and Medical Science Collection
By Tara Carron, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian. Newly processed! The John P. McGovern Museum of Health and Science collection has been processed and a finding aid is available at https://archives.library.tmc.edu/ic-079. The Health Museum: A Brief History In 1962, the…
Tagged with: processed
Posted in Medical Archives, Artifacts, Institutional Collection, John P. McGovern, MD
Posted in Medical Archives, Artifacts, Institutional Collection, John P. McGovern, MD
Archives Month and Texas Archival Resources Online
by Matt Richardson, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian. October is Archives Month! The celebration offers an occasion to raise awareness about archives, the work archivists do, and the amazing resources they steward. At the McGovern Historical Center, this provides the…
Posted in Education & Outreach, Medical Archives
The Black Bag: Foundations of Medicine 