Extensive holdings of the LSU Health Sciences Center Medical Library were used to document the significant events in our history presented in this chronology. Materials depicted in this virtual archive include photographs, correspondence, documents, newspaper articles, artifacts and audio and video clips. These unique archival resources provide a fascinating glimpse into our past. For assistance in accessing these resources, please click here.

The Aesculpian 1931 [Shreveport, Louisiana]: Shreveport Charity Hospital, 1931.

Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana Nashville and Chicago: The Southern Publishing Company, facsimile of the 1890 edition published in 1976.
[History of Medicine Stacks F 369 B615 1976]

The Blacker the Berry…A Black History of Shreveport by Willie Burton. Shreveport: The Shreveport Times, 2002.

Caddo: 1,000: A History of the Shreveport Area from the Time of the Caddo Indians to the 1970s by Viola Carruth. Shreveport: Shreveport Magazine, 1970.
[F 379 S4 C319c 1970]

Chronicles of Shreveport by Maude Hearn-O’Pry. Shreveport: s.n., 1928.

Eric Brock’s Shreveport by Eric J. Brock. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 2001.

Glimpses of Shreveport edited by Ann M. McLaurin. Natchitoches, Louisiana: Northwestern State University Press, 1985.

The Historical Development of the LouisianaStateUniversityMedicalCenter in Shreveport by Joe E. Holoubek. [Shreveport, Louisiana: J.E. Holoubek, 2001]
[WZ 23 L888h 2001]

A History of Louisiana: Wilderness – Colony – Province – Territory – State – People by Henry E. Chambers. 3 vols. Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1925.
[F 369 C444h 1925]

History of Shreveport and Shreveport Builders, 1935 – 1950 by Mary Lilla McLure and J. Ed Howe. 2 vols. Shreveport, Louisiana: [Journal Print. Co.], 1937-1951.

LouisianaStateUniversityMedicalCenterSchool of Medicine in Shreveport 1950-1970 edited and compiled by the Medical Library Staff. Shreveport, Louisiana: 1970.
[History of Medicine Stacks WZ 70 AL6 L888s 1970]

On the Black Side of Shreveport: A History by Willie Burton. [Shreveport, Louisiana: s.n.], 1983.

Private Papers of the Founders of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport compiled by Mayo Drake, Charles D. Wood, Joseph E. Holoubek. Shreveport, Louisiana: LSU Medical Center in Shreveport, 1982.
[History of Medicine Stacks WZ 23 L888d 1982]

Public Welfare Administration in Louisianaby Elizabeth Wisner. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1930. (Chapter 7: “History of the Shreveport Charity Hospital”)  
[History of Medicine HV 98 W815p 1930]

Roots of the LouisianaStateUniversitySchool of Medicine in Shreveport 1950-1970 by Joe E. Holoubek. Shreveport, Louisiana: J.E. Holoubek, 2004. Print and Video.
[History of Medicine Stacks WZ 23 L888ho 2004]

Rudolph Matas History of Medicine in Louisiana edited by John Duffy. 2 vols. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1958-1962.
[ History of Medicine Stacks WZ 70 AL6 D8r]

Shreveport: A Photographic Remembrance, 1873-1949 by Bailey Thomson and Patricia L. Meador. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987.

Shreveport: Faces of the Past (Images of America) by Eric J. Brock. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia, 2001.

Shreveport (Images of America) by Eric J. Brock. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia, 1998.

Shreveport in Vintage Postcards (Postcard History series) by Eric J. Brock. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia, 2005.

“Child Health Care and Pediatrics” by Clarence Webb, M.D. North Louisiana Historical Association Journal Spring/Summer 1986; 17(2-3): 97-102.

“Early ‘Pest Houses’ Gave Way to a Modern Hospital System” by Lois Norder. Shreveport Journal Sesquicentennial Edition. September 16, 1985: 8E-9E.

“History of Medicine in Shreveport: The Black Experience” by J.C. Brierre, M.D. North Louisiana Historical Association Journal Spring/Summer 1986; 17(2-3): 91-96.

“The Hospital’s History Offers Glimpses of the Past” by Ike Muslow, M.D. Progress Notes… May 1979; 2(5): 1-3.

“Louis Andrew Breffeilh, M.D. 1913-1999” Bulletin of the Shreveport Medical Society September 1999; 50(9): 17.

“LSU School of Medicine: A 25-Year Fight” by Harry Taylor. Shreveport Magazine November 1975; 30(11): 17-18, 35-36.

“Medicine in Early North Louisiana by J. Woodfin Wilson, Jr., M.D. North Louisiana Historical Association Journal Spring/Summer 1986; 17(2-3): 49-57.

“New Medical Center is Formally Dedicated Here” Shreveport Times June 4, 1953: 1, 2A.

“New Mission of the LSU Medical Center” Shreveport Magazine May 1979; 34(5): 17-18, 36, 38, 40.

“100th Anniversary: Thursday, June 3, 1976 Confederate Memorial Medical Center” Shreveport Journal June 1, 1976: 1D-12D.

“100th Anniversary: Thursday, June 3, 1976 Confederate Memorial Medical Center” Shreveport Times June 1, 1976: 1D-12D.

“The Role of the LSU Medical Library in the Medical Community” by Mayo Drake. Bulletin of the Shreveport Medical Society March 1971; 22(3): 10-11.

“The Roots of the LSU School of Medicine in Shreveport” by Joe E. Holoubek, M.D. North Louisiana Historical Association Journal Spring/Summer 1986; 17(2-3): 111-128.

“Shreveport Gets a Medical School: Medical Education and Political Reality in Louisiana, 1950-1969” by Brady M. Banta. Louisiana History Fall 1996; 37(4): 435-53.

“VA and Its ‘Teaching Hospital’” by Orland Dodson. Shreveport Magazine November 1970; 25(11): 17, 18, 30, 32.

“A Brief History of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – Shreveport” a Commencement Address by John C. McDonald, June 2001.
[unpublished typescript of address in LSUHSC-S Medical Library Archives, John C. McDonald, M.D. Archive]