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The industrial arts room provided a space where patients had the opportunity to work and create if they chose.

Many patients were farmers and chose to work on the farms that Bryce Hospital provided. They grew vegetables and raised animals for meat that fed the residents of the hospital.

Photo shows the long hallway where women patients were housed. Circa 1916. Individual bedrooms are located on each side of the hallway. this was on the East section of the hospital looking East. This hallway connected to a cross hall that connected…

Drs. Lawrence and Tarwater are shown in offices at Bryce Hospital.

The original Druid City Hospital opened Mar. 28, 1923, on the University of Alabama campus. Prior to that time, Tuscaloosa had had a number of privately owned and managed hospitals. The movement for this new hospital began in 1919 when a group of…

Dr. Rufus Cornelius Partlow Sr. was born in 1885 in St. Clair County, Partlow and his older brother, W.D. (William Dempsey) Partlow grew up on a farm and left to attend medical school. Both interned at Bryce Hospital and spent their careers treating…

Cabinet card photograph of Dr. Peter Bryce taken in 1859 upon his graduation from the Medical College of the University of New York.

Bryce was superintendent of the Alabama Insane Hospital in Tuscaloosa (later Bryce Hospital) for 31 years.

Dr. Peter Bryce was superintendent of the Alabama Insane Hospital at Tuscaloosa (later to be named Bryce Hospital) for 31 years, beginning in 1860.

Bryce was born in 1834 in Columbia, South Carolina. At the age of 17 he entered the South Carolina…

Dr. Bryce wrote to his "dear Nellie" on the last day of 1879. She was at her family home in Columbia, South Carolina.

Dr. Lewis Davis, the only physician in the small town of Gordo, Alabama, at the time, died in 1960.

“Dr. Lewis,” as he was called, delivered more than 5,000 babies, most in homes, during his 45 years of practicing medicine.

Dr. Lewis was…