1920s

  • Jimmie Ethel Montgomery, circa 1925

    Yearbook photo of Jimmie Ethel Montgomery
    May 2012 Image of the Month

    On May 26, 1925, Montgomery received a bachelor's degree in medicine from the two-year basic sciences program at the University of Alabama becoming the first female graduate of the medical school. In 1928 Montgomery received the M.D. from the University of Minnesota. She was a general practitioner in Bibb County, Alabama, and died in 1982.

    Image: The Corolla yearbook

  • Hillman Hospital, circa 1928

    Outside of Hillman Hospital
    July 2006 Image of the Month

    Hillman Hospital, circa 1928. The Hillman Hospital was dedicated on July 15, 1903, but the history of the hospital itself reaches back to 1888 when a charity hospital was established in the young city of Birmingham. Ground was broken at the corner of South 20th Street and 6th Avenue South for the "new" Hillman Hospital in May of 1902. The Hillman Hospital building remains as part of the UAB Hospital complex.

    Image ID: MC51, #127g