204 results for: Medicine and Health Care
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U.S. Quarantine Station, 1905
The United States Public Health Service inspected all ships entering American waters from foreign ports. This was to make sure that no one on board was sick with smallpox, yellow fever, or any other contagious diseases. If sickness was found, the ship and its crew had to stay at a quarantine station until they were given a clean bill of…
ID Number:1983.10.7345
Date:1905
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George Yates Dog and Cat Hospital ambulance, Seattle, circa 1910
Dr. Yates had a veterinary business at 1322 Aloha Street. In this photo, he is accompanied by a dog while making his rounds in the Eastlake neighborhood. Lettering on ambulance: Dr. Geo. H. Yates Dog - Cat Hospital. Ambulance. 1322 Aloha St., 8 Eastlake Ave.Webster & Stevens number: 4906
ID Number:1983.10.7558
Date:Circa 1910
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Providence Hospital, circa 1904
Three Sisters of Providence arrived in Seattle from Vancouver, Washington in May 1877 to manage the King County Poor Farm on the Duwamish River. In May 1878, the sisters purchased and remodeled a house at Fifth Avenue and Madison, and established the first Providence Hospital. The group built a second, larger hospital in several phases, beginning in 1882. This photo,…
ID Number:1983.10.8713
Date:Circa 1904
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First Hill neighborhood, Seattle, circa 1912
Providence Hospital, shown in the upper right of this view, was located at 18th Avenue and East Cherry Street. Handwritten on sleeve: Eastside of First Hill Panorama.Webster & Stevens number: 20604
ID Number:1983.10.9381.3
Date:Circa 1912
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King County Hospital showing addition, circa 1915
In 1893-1894, King County built a hospital at the County Poor Farm, on the Duwamish River. At this facility, doctors and nurses cared for those sick and injured county residents who could not afford to pay. By 1915, the hospital had expanded into a new brick addition. The King County Hospital remained at this site until the 1930s, when Harborview…
ID Number:1983.10.9935
Date:Circa 1915
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Cobb Building and White-Henry-Stuart Building, Seattle, circa 1915
The Cobb Building (left), on the northwest corner of 4th Avenue and University Street, is still largely occupied by medical and dental practicioners. Its architectural companion, the White-Henry-Stuart Building, was razed in the 1970s for Rainier Tower and Square. Handwritten on sleeve: Cobb Bldg., WHS Bldg., City View Skyline.Webster & Stevens number: 43315
ID Number:1983.10.9962
Date:Circa 1915
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Providence Hospital, 1915
Between 1907 and 1912, Seattle's Providence Hospital built a large new brick building, at a cost of one million dollars. Designed by Somervell & Cote, it was a full-service hospital with six operating rooms and a nursing school. Patients were moved into the new building in September 1911.This 1915 photo shows Providence Hospital, now Providence Seattle Medical Center, at Seventeenth…
ID Number:1983.10.10006
Date:1915
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Aerial view of Marine Hospital, Seattle, 1937
The Marine Hospital in Seattle was completed in 1932, and opened in 1933, serving veterans, merchant seamen, the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Light House Service, and "federal compensation cases" (the poor and indigent). Now the Pacific Tower, and previously the Pacific Medical Center, the 16-story building is located on Beacon Hill in Seattle, at 1200 12th Avenue South. Designed by…
ID Number:1983.10.17640
Date:1937
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Mary Mahoney Professional Nurses Organization founders posing, Seattle, circa 1949
In 1949 the Mary Mahoney Professional Nurses Organization was begun by 13 African-American nurses in Seattle to support each other and to help young women who wanted to become nurses. Inspired by Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1926), the first African-American woman to earn a nursing degree in the U. S., the organization has helped African American women and men in their…
ID Number:1985.62.1
Date:Circa 1949
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Oral history interview with Erroll Rawson, April 28, 1985
Erroll Rawson was a Seattle doctor who volunteered his skills on the wartime homefront (including creating an emergency medicine system) and maintained a private practice as World War II began. In this April 28, 1985, interview conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project, Rawson speaks about medical care in wartime Seattle area and racial…
ID Number:1985.134.18
Date:1985