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Dr. Benjamin Bluitt was the first African-American surgeon in Texas and one of the first African-Americans to practice medicine in Dallas. His sanitarium -- today we woul[...]

This page from the 1916-1917 Baylor College of Medicine "Annual Announcement" shows Dallas hospitals and clinics of the era. Those shown include (left to right, top to bo[...]

Dr. John Hicks Florence was the Dallas City Health Officer from 1898 to 1902. During that time, he lived with his family at Parkland Hospital.

Front view of Hope Cottage Foundling Home and Well Baby Clinic. The building has three floors with a half rotunda entrance. There are several large trees in the font lawn[...]

Hope Cottage was founded in 1918 to care for abandoned babies. The Hope Cottage building was constructed in 1922 at 2301 Welborn, and used as a home for babies until 1960[...]

Portrait of Dr. John Hicks Florence when he was Vice President and Medical Director of Southern Life Insurance Company in Houston, Texas.

The Medical Arts Building, which opened in 1923 on the northwest corner of St. Paul and Pacific streets, was the first Dallas skyscraper to contain primarily offices for [...]

This photo records an event not seen at Parkland Hospital prior to 1964: African-American and white patients waiting together in the same line at the hospital's outpatien[...]

This photo was digitized from the 1955 Parkland School of Nursing yearbook (titled "The White Cap"). The caption in the yearbook reads, "Community Health: The many proble[...]

St. Paul Sanitarium opened a Free Clinic--the first in Dallas--in 1906. This reproduction of a 1924 photo was posed with doctors, nurses and patients (or perhaps models p[...]