The first campus of Southwestern Medical College was constructed in 1943 of prefabricated plywood buildings (often called "the shacks") located along Oak Lawn Avenue behind Parkland Hospital. The campus soon expanded to other buildings in the neighborhood, but "the shacks" remained the primary campus until 1955, when the Cary Building on Harry Hines Blvd. was opened. (Note: Although this item was digitized from an original photograph in the UT Southwestern Archives, this image also appears in the Southwestern Medical College 1946-47 yearbook, "Caduceus," where it is labeled "Administration Building.")