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Texas Children's Hospital Pediatrics
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Texas Children's Hospital Historical Archives

  • IC 042
  • Collection
  • 1953-2003

Texas Children's Hospital Historical Archives contains 10 cubic feet of processed material and 79 boxes of unprocessed material. The later is labeled as the TCH Historical Archives and arrived in the HRC in 2008.

Subjects: Hospital, Texas Children's Hospital

Texas Children's Hospital

Children's Nutrition Research Center records

  • IC 066
  • Collection
  • 1981-1996

The Children's Nutrition Research Center records contains annual Reports, Nutrition & Your Child, CNRC news July/August 1996, Nutrition for the Future, Advances in Research 1991, Facility Feasibility Study, and Brochures.

Subjects: Nutrition

Children's Nutrition Research Center

Russell J. Blattner, MD papers

  • MS 016
  • Collection
  • 1936-1985

The Blattner collection contains Dr. Blattner's research work throughout his career in St. Louis and Houston. It contains photographs, research materials, reprints, and publications. It offers a record of Dr. Blattner's professional life and contains no personal or family records. Collection materials date from 1936-1985.

Blattner, Russell J.

Murdina MacFarquhar Desmond, MD papers

  • MS 054
  • Collection
  • 1948-86

The Murdina MacFarquhar Desmond, MD papers contains photographs of Dr. Desmond as a medical student, Naval officer, and a faculty member of Baylor College of Medicine. The main portion of her papers deal with her work at Jefferson Davis Hospital, including grants she received from the John A. Hartford Foundation, and at Texas Children's Hospital.

Some background material and photographs of the illustrations she used in the book, Newborn Medicine and Society: European Background and American Practice (1750-1975), are included. Reprints of her journal articles are also available. She donated many books on the newborn and on pediatrics. These books have been cataloged and are available through the HAM-TMC Library's online catalog.

Desmond, Murdina M., 1916-

Luke William Able, MD papers

  • MS 122
  • Collection
  • 1945-1996

The Luke William Able, MD, (1912 – 2006) collection includes a few photographs and news clippings, the letter from the State Department re: Dr. Able’s receipt of the Silver Star for his service in World War II, and several plaques and desktop awards. The items date from approximately 1945 to 1996.

Subjects: World War II, military medicine.

Able, Luke William

Group photograph of Doctors Taylor, Desmond, Hsu, and McNamara in Blattner Conference Room

Doctors wearing formal attire stand together in front of a framed portrait of Dr. Russell Blattner. Reverse labeled, "Drs Taylor Desmond Hsu & McNamara[,] Blattner Conf. Rm. TCH," referring to Dr. Fred M. Taylor, Dr. Murdina M. Desmond, Dr. Katherine Hsu, and Mr. Dan G. McNamara. Color photograph measures 5" x 6 3/4".

The Middle Class Premature

Transcript of a talk given by Dr. Desmond as Director of the Meyer Developmental Pediatrics Center at Texas Children's Hospital to the Parents of Prematures on February 3, 1978. Includes a question and answer session with attendees.

Dr. Murdina Desmond

The Newborn Section, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine

A fifteen page typed history of the newborn section in the Baylor College of Medicine Pediatrics department, from 1947 to 1969. Written by Dr. Murdina Desmond, it includes some of her personal history and identifies key personnel, such as Dr. Russell Blattner, Dr. Martha Yow, Dr. Arnold Jack Rudolph, Dr. Reba Hill, Dr. Rebecca Pineda, Dr. Geraldine Wilson.

Dr. Murdina Desmond