This list is taken from the TN State Library & Archives finding aid for Record Group 97. Accuracy of spelling and dates have not been verified. There is no information in the finding aid regarding completeness of the list. The … Continue reading
This list is taken from the TN State Library & Archives finding aid for Record Group 97. Accuracy of spelling and dates have not been verified. There is no information in the finding aid regarding completeness of the list. The … Continue reading
This list is taken from the TN State Library & Archives finding aid for Record Group 97. Accuracy of spelling and dates have not been verified. The list is incomplete, based on newspaper reports of graduates. In 1948, Newell Hospital … Continue reading
Carver Hospital Served Blacks for 15 Years by Phoebe Pollitt, Ph.D., R.N. — Published September 6th, 2015 Walden Hospital, the original African-American hospital in Chattanooga at Douglas and Eighth streets, opened in 1915. Founder Emma Wheeler added the nursing school … Continue reading
The hospitals of this city are very interesting in their every detail. There are about thirty-five hospitals and sanitariums in Knoxville. The Knoxville General is constructed of beautiful red brick, with all the walls covered with green trailing vines. The … Continue reading
Hospital Was Luxury in ’80’s – First Had few Beds by Henry Evans Only a year or so before the first copies of the Knoxville News Sentinel were inked and sold, Knoxvillians had discovered a new luxury – the hospital. … Continue reading
From a postcard, circa 1930 It doesn’t have quite the panache of a former U.S. post office, Victorian mansion or retired schoolhouse, but Sam Furrow is in the process of saving another Knoxville landmark from the wrecking ball. Furrow is … Continue reading
This advertising post card was sent to Benjamin E. Cline, M. D., of Strawberry Plains in East Tennessee, in 1908, to promote The Hayden and Brown Sanitarium. The card was of interest because they describe a modern facility that employed … Continue reading
Robert J. Booker, Opinion Columnist, Knoxville News SentinelPublished March 13, 2019 A few weeks ago I invited Johnny Ford, former mayor of Tuskegee, Alabama, and Judith Tolbert of Fairbanks, Alaska, both members of the Knoxville College Board of Trustees, to … Continue reading
These photos, probably from the Knoxville Journal, were published in August, 1956. They show James Daughtery on his arrival at the then-closed KGH Emergency Room and afterward at the new UT Hospital Emergency Room.Dr. James Lett provided this clipping. … Continue reading
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