204 results for: Medicine and Health Care
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Young patient giving another a gift at Firland Sanatorium, Seattle, December 1, 1954
Firland Sanatorium, Seattle’s municipal tuberculosis hospital, opened on May 2, 1911, to help combat what was at the time Seattle’s leading cause of death. Firland was located north of Seattle, on land donated by railroad magnate Horace C. Henry (1844-1928), whose son Walter had died of TB. The hospital served there until its move in 1947 to a former Naval…
ID Number:1986.5.9391.3
Date:1954
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Nurse reading to boys in wheelchairs at Harborview Hospital, Seattle, 1933
Handwritten on image: Harborview Hosp.Handwritten on sleeve: SEATTLE, Hospitals, Harborview.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): May 6, 1933.
ID Number:1986.5.9399.2
Date:1933
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Veteran's Hospital dedication ceremony, Seattle, 1948
Handwritten on sleeve: SEATTLE, Hospitals, Veterans. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): November 29, 1948.
ID Number:1986.5.9547.4
Date:1948
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Veteran's Administration hospital, Seattle, April 1951
After World War II, a hospital was needed in metropolitan Seattle to serve the many veterans returning to the area. The City of Seattle deeded 44 acres of land, originally part of Jefferson Park in Beacon Hill, to the U.S. government for the project. Constructed from 1949 to 1951, the 325-bed Seattle Division Veterans' Hospital sits high on a hill…
ID Number:1986.5.9555.1
Date:1951
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Teacher reading to young girl at Firland Sanitarium, Seattle, November 8, 1955
Firland Sanatorium, Seattle’s municipal tuberculosis hospital, opened on May 2, 1911, to help combat what was at the time Seattle’s leading cause of death. Firland was located north of Seattle, on land donated by railroad magnate Horace C. Henry (1844-1928), whose son Walter had died of TB. The hospital served there until its move in 1947 to a former Naval…
ID Number:1986.5.9564.1
Date:1955
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Teacher reading to students at Firland Sanitarium, Seattle, November 8, 1955
Firland Sanatorium, Seattle’s municipal tuberculosis hospital, opened on May 2, 1911, to help combat what was at the time Seattle’s leading cause of death. Firland was located north of Seattle, on land donated by railroad magnate Horace C. Henry (1844-1928), whose son Walter had died of TB. The hospital served there until its move in 1947 to a former Naval…
ID Number:1986.5.9564.2
Date:1955
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Child receiving tuberculosis test, Seattle, December 2, 1957
In December 1957, the Seattle and Highline school districts offered free tuberculosis screening tests to first-grade students, sponsored by the Anti-Tuberculosis League. Children with parental permission were given the Mantoux tuberculin test, a skin test which reveals the presence of tuberculosis bateria in the body.In this image White Center Heights Elementary School student Carlton J. York, center, receives a tuberculin…
ID Number:1986.5.15131.1
Date:1957
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Aerial view of U.W. School of Medicine under construction, looking northeast, Seattle, 1948
The University of Washington, founded in 1861 is one of the oldest public universities in the western United States. This view shows Union Bay and Husky Stadium at the top of the photo and the Health Sciences Building under construction on the shores of Portage Bay. The U.W. School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, and School of Pharmacy would eventually…
ID Number:1986.5.15719.1
Date:1948
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Hen Sen Chin, Seattle, July 1965
Hen Sen Chin (1923-2006) was an internationlly known traditional Chinese herbalist who saw patients for 53 years at his office in the Chinatown International District, and later Beacon Hill. Arriving in Seattle at age 9 from Canton, China, he worked at restaurants and his uncle's laundry before following his passion to become a doctor. He graduated from Lingnan Herb School…
ID Number:1986.5.21460.1
Date:1965
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Morrison family at Stampede Pass Hospital, circa 1888
In February 1886, work began on the Northern Pacific Railroad's Stampede Pass Tunnel through the Cascade Mountains. At the east portal worksite, workers built barracks, supply buildings, the engineers' headquarters and a hospital. The hospital was staffed by a Dr. Morrison, who lived there with his family during the building of the tunnel.In this photo, taken sometime after 1886, Dr.…
ID Number:1986.17.1
Date:Circa 1888