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AJ Wright
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Interested in medical history, Alabama history & culture & the price of hard-boiled noir in China. Lots of my Alabama history stuff can be found at https://alabamayesterdays.blogspot.com/
Today’s Find: The 1963 black & white film “Police Nurse” with its tag line “Out to Crack the ‘Hush Hush’ Society Doctor Racket” tinyurl.com/y5bh2k8p #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
November 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
November 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Over 1000 works created by #Huntsville #Alabama artist #CarolynShoresWright [1929-2023] available at Fine Art America for prints, greeting cards, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs "Robin"
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Today’s Find: In “Curious George Takes a Job” (1947) by Margret & H.A. Rey, George tests some ether tinyurl.com/yc5ypxv6 #histmed #medicalhistory #childrensbook #curiousgeorge
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Birmingham Photos of the Day (72): Ice Delivery” tinyurl.com/yy6m4az8 #Alabama #BirminghamAlabama
November 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Over 1000 works created by #Huntsville #Alabama artist #CarolynShoresWright [1929-2023] available at Fine Art America for prints, greeting cards, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "Along the Shore"
November 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Today’s Find: James Sawyer’s 1904 book “Insomnia: Its Causes & Cure” tinyurl.com/2uvhm96s #histmed #medicalhistory #insomnia
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “A Visit to Gibson’s Bookstore in Owens Cross Roads” tinyurl.com/y5a253hr #alabama #alabamayesterdays
November 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Today’s Find: New Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Random Alabama (2)” tinyurl.com/4ftrev9n #alabama #alabamayesterdays
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Today’s Find: 1938 drama “Nurse from Brooklyn” The nurse’s younger brother is killed in a shootout between police & criminals tinyurl.com/yc36hneu & tinyurl.com/ytpd5k2w #histmed #medicalhistory #histnursing #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Robert Hunter’s ‘Alabama Getaway’” tinyurl.com/y44po7t8 #alabama #roberthunter #gratefuldead #alabamayesterdays
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Tyrone Power’s Alabama Connection” tinyurl.com/y4a9vyug #Montgomeryalabama #Mobilealabama #tyronepower #alabama #alabamayesterdays
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Today’s Find: “Gunsmoke” episode “Home Surgery” on radio 13 Sept 1952 & TV 8 Oct 1955. Rancher has gangrenous leg & Marshall Dillon has to amputate. Just preop prep shown—boiling water, bandages, horse tail hair to tie off arteries & liquor consumption. Patient dies tinyurl.com/yy8f9y2k #histmed
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
#Alabama Book of the Day: This strange 1998 pamphlet tells the story of a riot that took place at Camp Sibert near #Gadsden during WWII. A number of black soldiers were supposedly killed & their bodies concealed in a cave tinyurl.com/ycxq88ol
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Over 1000 works created by #Huntsville #Alabama artist #CarolynShoresWright [1929-2023] available at Fine Art America for prints, greeting cards, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "Pumpkin Wreath"
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Today’s Find: “Four Girls in White” a 1939 mostly comic film about student nurses in a three-year training course at a large urban hospital tinyurl.com/2p92es4a #histmed #histnursing #medhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm #medicalhistory
November 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Old Grissom High School in Huntsville” tinyurl.com/y5z7utwc #Alabama #alabamayesterdays #huntsvilleal #huntsvillealabama
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Today’s Find: Prolific Alabama author Tom Roan had the cover story in this December 1936 issue of “All Western Magazine” tinyurl.com/ytknvfbt & tinyurl.com/y7t3px7a #tomroan #alabamaauthor #alabamayesterdays #alabama
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Today’s Find: “Internes Can’t Take Money” a 1937 film w/Joel McCrea & Barbara Stanwyck, first film appearance of Dr. James Kildare tinyurl.com/2x7zw6zt #histmed #medhistory #medicalfilm #drkildare #joelmccrea #barbarastanwyck
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Over 1000 works created by #Huntsville #Alabama artist #CarolynShoresWright [1929-2023] available at Fine Art America for prints, greeting cards, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "Flowers in a Pot IV"
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Today's Alabama Book: John William Beverly's "History of Alabama". Published in 1901; first general state history written by a black author, who for many years was president of what became Alabama State University in Montgomery tinyurl.com/yxnorv6a #alabama
November 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Today’s Find: Postcard featuring an 1890 photo of Pennsylvania Hospital’s East Wing 8th & Pine streets. Built in Philadelphia in 1756 tinyurl.com/4pnbwz2p #histmed #medicalhistory #hospitalhistory #postcard
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Over 1000 works created by #Huntsville #Alabama artist #CarolynShoresWright [1929-2023] available at Fine Art America for prints, greeting cards, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "Sleepover"
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Reposted by AJ Wright
I drove around for a while at lunch today, I didn't take a single photo. I think I am burned out. These are good, though. Birmingham, early yesterday morning.
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "Thanksgivings Past in Alabama" tinyurl.com/6b565mzw #thanksgiving #alabama #alabamayesterdays
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM