The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives
PHOTOS FROM THE ALFRED BLALOCK PAPERS
Updated: March 5, 1999 mwk
Portraits in the Alfred Blalock portrait file
1) Blalock, early years, family and friend
Young Blalock (around 6 years old) with his brother Edgar; Blalock the young collegian, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia; young doctor Blalock on a hunting expedition with T. Cook Smith in 1922; photo of his father George Z. Blalock, in yard; photo of his mother, Martha Davis Blalock, in her garden; early portrait taken in Nashville by A. J. Thoms (sp?)
2) Portrait by Bacharach, Blalock as a young man
3) Portrait by Harris & Ewing, and other unidentified portraits made during his middle years
4) Portraits by Yousuf Karsh
1) Blalock standing wearing suit and tie, smoking a cigarette exhaling
2) in lab coat standing adjusting photo on wall of blue baby patient
3) in lab coat standing looking down wearing his glasses
4) in lab coat with his elbow on his bent leg and his chin in hand
5) in lab coat, no glasses, seated hands clasped looking down
6) in lab coat seated, wearing glasses, looking at patient chart
5) Award presentations, honors; also Blalock at other events
Blalock and Helen Taussig, Gardner awards, 1959; Advertising Club Man of the Year, 1961; Blalock at dinner in his honor, at the Southern Hotel in Baltimore, accepting award from trustee, Walter Perkins, 1961; negative of Alfred Blalock sitting in audience of Pithotomy Club; negative of Blalock at reception with Rene Leriche
6) Blalock at his desk; studying images; in academic gown
In his office seated at his desk; in lab coat wearing glasses looking up at images on the wall; negative, in his cap and gown, has inscription "Fond regards to Alex Haller from Alfred Blalock"
7) Blalock operating, lecturing.
Blalock operating with Vivien Thomas (recently added from the Elizabeth Sherwood Papers) Visiting Guy's Hospital in London, Blalock on the steps of the medical school (recently added, gift of P.G. Hobhouse) Other views of Blalock lecturing at Hopkins
NOTE: For other photos of Blalock operating see: "People at Work, Surgery", series.
8) Photographs of Portrait paintings; Bethune mural; cartoon sketch
I. Hunner Parsons portrait; and portrait in academic robes; detail of angel mural by Norman Bethune from cottage in Saranac Lake; cartoon sketch of Blalock, by Jesse F. Scott, M.D. when he was at Vanderbilt, 1940
Box 233 Portraits in the Alfred Blalock Collection of his friends and colleagues
1 Broylis, Edwin N.
2 Crile, George
3 Ford, Jimmy (former patient)
4 Johnson, Alfred W. (reproduction of painting)
5 Lewis, Dean
6 McClure, Roy D. (reproduction of painting)
7 Thayer, William S.
8 Welch, William H.
9 unidentified group, n.d.
10 child (former patient ?)
11 unidentified
Alfred Blalock Papers
Box Contents
Circulatory Diagrams Tetralogy of Fallot, mounted drawings for teaching presentations, showing "Before Anastomosis and After Anastomosis"; probably used by Blalock and Taussig, (Fig. XI and XII, JAMA) no date
Johns Hopkins Hospital Distinguished Service Award, 1960 (2 copies)
Republique Francaise - Ordre National de la Legion D'Honneur, (Chevalier) 1947
Individual portraits of Blalock's friends and colleagues, inscribed to him:
Coller, Fred
McClure, Roy D.
Ravitch, Mark?
Rienhoff, William "Bill"
View The Blue
Baby Exhibit
The archives online exhibit about the Blalock -Taussig Shunt.