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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…