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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 1h

Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post on the "Alabama Medical Journal for 1907" tinyurl.com/yc6cthjz #histmed #medicalhistory #alabama

AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 17h

Over 1000 works created by #Huntsville #Alabama artist #CarolynShoresWright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, greeting cards, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. This image is "Grape Jelly"

AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 21h

Today’s Find: 1953 “Battle Circus” film with Humphry Bogart as a MASH surgeon in the Korean War & June Allyson as a newly arrived nurse tinyurl.com/yfe8rv5k #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 1d

Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post on "Pelham in the 1880s" bit.ly/QjkgfO #pelhamal #pelhamalabama #alabama #alabamayesterdays

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 1d

Over 1000 works created by #Huntsville #Alabama artist #CarolynShoresWright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, greeting cards, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. This image is "Pumpkin Wreath"

AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s Find: Clark Cable is an army surgeon! Lana Turner is an army nurse! In WW II! in this 1948 film “Homecoming” tinyurl.com/n469wc9 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 2d

Today's Find: Graefenberg Medical Institute in Dadeville tinyurl.com/4hs9wbks First operating medical school in Alabama Graduate Louisa Shepard was first female MD in the U.S. South. Closed by the Civil War #histmed #medicalhistory

AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 2d

Over 1000 works created by #Huntsville #Alabama artist #CarolynShoresWright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, greeting cards, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. Images licensed for many objects, incl. this book

AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s Find: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's short story "Zerviah Hope" in “Scribner’s Monthly” Nov 1880 abt a heroic woman doctor attending victims of a yellow fever epidemic in the US tinyurl.com/r3ldqem & tinyurl.com/uead22n #histmed #medicalhistory 1882 novel "Doctor Zay" also abt a female doctor

AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 3d

"Jack and Jill" Sept 1966. This "better magazine for boys & girls" began in 1938 & continues today tinyurl.com/bdzz89rf I've written a couple of Alabama Yesterday blog posts on a childhood subscription tinyurl.com/3xvzyar7 & tinyurl.com/yvfxkdwf #alabamayesterdays

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 3d

Over 1000 works created by #Huntsville #Alabama artist #CarolynShoresWright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, greeting cards, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. Images licensed for many objects, incl. these from Amia

AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 3d

Today’s Find: “Quarantined” is a TV film that first aired 24 Feb 1970 as the ABC “Movie of the Week” & is set in a clinic in the midst of a cholera epidemic tinyurl.com/s5hymg5 & tinyurl.com/vkmf7zd Gary Collins, John Dehner & Susan Howard were among the stars #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 4d

Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "Birmingham Photo of the Day (2): Downtown, 1921" tinyurl.com/pe8pp88 #birminghamal #birminghamalabama #Alabama #alabamayesterdays

AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 4d

Over 1000 works created by #Huntsville #Alabama artist #CarolynShoresWright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, greeting cards, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. Images licensed for many objects, incl. these from Amia

AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 4d

Today’s Find: “Born to Love” is a 1931 film starring Constance Bennett as an American nurse working in London during World War I tinyurl.com/3f69fhv4 #histmed #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #histnursing

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 5d

"Jack and Jill" Sept 1960. This "better magazine for boys & girls" began in 1938 & continues today tinyurl.com/bdzz89rf I've written a couple of Alabama Yesterday blog posts on a childhood subscription tinyurl.com/3xvzyar7 & tinyurl.com/yvfxkdwf #alabamayesterdays #childrensmagazine

AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 5d

Over 1000 works created by #Huntsville #Alabama artist #CarolynShoresWright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, greeting cards, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. Images licensed for many objects, incl. this one from Amia

AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 5d

Today’s Find: This biography of American actor Edwin Forrest describes his encounter at a laughing gas demonstration as a 14 yo in San Francisco in 1820
tinyurl.com/yxlxvkzu & tinyurl.com/y5m9b64v The portrait of Forrest was taken by Mathew Brady #histmed

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 6d

Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "Birmingham Photo of the Day (1): Downtown, 1939" tinyurl.com/qc586z6 #birminghamal #birminghamalabama #Alabama

AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 6d

Today's Find: Early black physician in Birmingham, Alabama Dr. Arthur McKinnon Brown tinyurl.com/pzg8s43 Born Nov 9, 1867, died Dec 4, 1939 #histmed #medicalhistory #birminghamal #birminghamalabama #alabama

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 6d

Today’s Find: Charles W. Chesnutt’s 1901 novel “The Marrow of Tradition” One of the main characters is a black physician who returns to Wilmington, NC to set up practice tinyurl.com/bdzxf94j Racial unrest is heightened by the murder of a white woman for which a black servant is accused #histmed

AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 7d

Over 1000 works created by #Huntsville #Alabama artist #CarolynShoresWright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, greeting cards, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. Images licensed for many objects, including these from Amia

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 7d

Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "Alice McNeal, MD: Alabama's First Female Anesthesiologist"
tinyurl.com/mp7a3ov #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory #Alabama #Birminghamal #birminghamalabama

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 7d

Today’s Find: 1925 novel “Professor Dowell’s Head” by Russian novelist Alexander Belyaev involves an assistant who keeps Dowell’s head alive & such as that tinyurl.com/565evfxu This translation published 2021 #histmed #medicalhistory

AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 8d

Over 1000 images created by #Huntsville #Alabama artist #CarolynShoresWright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, greeting cards, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. One of many cross-stitch books licensed from her work