The newspaper item below turned up recently when my brother Richard and I were going through some papers at mom's house in Huntsville. I...

Over the years many hospitals have come and gone in Alabama. Just in the past eight years thirteen  hospitals have shuttered , all but one...

In 1890 Hale Infirmary opened in Montgomery as one of the state's earliest hospitals for blacks. The facility was largely the work of on...

Back in February my mother, artist Carolyn Shores Wright , had a brief stay at Crestwood Medical Center in Huntsville. My brother and I mad...

I recently looked at a couple of old issues of the Southern Medical Journal from  1911 and 1919 and found several advertisements for Alabam...

Two recent posts in this series here and here  have offered photos related to some hospitals in the city. These four images are also relate...

In the previous post in this series I covered the Holy Family Hospital in Ensley. Here are photos of three other Birmingham that have exper...

In February 1941 four nurses---three of them nuns---from Nazareth, Kentucky, arrived in Ensley to open a clinic to serve poor blacks in the...

Despite all the construction at UAB in recent decades, Jefferson Tower remains one of the most distinctive buildings on campus. The sixteen-...

This photo continues our series from the 1908 book Views of Birmingham .  Today the St. Vincent's Health System operates in several l...

Between 1902 and 1912 four of the tallest buildings in the Southeast at that time were constructed at the corner of 20th Street and 1st Ave...