| Description | File contains a set of black and white photographs of the various departments, wards, corridors, and staff members at work in the Mater Hospital and external views of the buildings on the hospital grounds (excluding the buildings on Eccles Street) and the surrounding Dublin area, with typed titles. Images include the X-Ray Department; Electrocardiograph (E.C.G.) rooms and equipment; external views of the Laboratory from the centre courtyard; the Pathology Department including internal corridors, Histology, Biochemistry and Sluice Room; internal shots of Child Guidance Clinic; the former staff car park; Pharmacy including office, stores and entryway; Cardiac Records; Phlebotomy; St Elizabeth’s, Our Lady’s, St Vincent’s, St Cecilia’s, and St Mel’s wards including staff and patients; internal corridors outside St Catherine’s, St John’s, St Monica’s, St Gabriel’s, St Joseph’s, St Anne’s and St Camillus’s wards as well as corridors outside St Anthony’s operating theatre; hospital main entrance internal; St John’s ward toilets; 1954 College of Nursing external building and interiors including sitting rooms, bedrooms, classrooms, corridors, waiting room, library, dummy wards, and nurses changing rooms; external views of the surrounding Dublin area taken from the roof of the College of Nursing looking towards Mountjoy, Glengarriff Parade, North Circular Road, Leo Street, and Dorset Street; external shots of the Child Guidance clinic, staff cafeteria and temporary G.I. (Gastro-Intestinal) Unit; hospital tennis court; St Anthony’s theatre and prep-room; Ophthalmology theatre including staff; St Monica’s theatre, scrub-up area and external corridors; Orthopaedic theatre including staff; Minor operating theatre; Theatre Number 1 and scrub-up area including staff; Theatre Number 2 including staff; internal main corridor Theatre; Cardiac Theatre including staff; Perfusionists’ workroom; operating theatre including staff; Theatre office including Sr Gerard and Sr Monica; internal stairway at auditorium; and images of a scale model of the proposed new M.M.H. hospital development c1980. Some photographs were used in Sr Eugene Nolan’s publication ‘Caring for the Nation: A History of the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital’. |