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The record room at Bryce Hospital circa 1914.

These items belonged to the late Ola Belle Mullenix Smith who graduated from the Bryce Hospital School of Nursing in 1940 after three years of study at the institution. Smith spent most of her nursing career as a nurse at Bryce Hospital, retiring in…

Bryce Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1930

Front row: Posey Hicks, Nursing Instructor; Ruby Lowley, R.N. Graduate; Iva Strickland, Nursing Instructor; Betty Finch, Nursing Instructor; Zena Cranford, R.N. Graduate; Ara Williams, R.N.…

Nursing students at Bryce Hospital circa 1919.

The superintendents of the hospital resided in a lovely home on Bryce Hospital Drive.

The large water tank was located in the dome of the Bryce Hospital building. Water was pumped to the tank and then distributed to areas of need in the building. The water was not potable, but was used in the toilets and sinks.

The building built for the Alabama Insane Hospital, later named Bryce Hospital, was designed by psychiatrist Thomas Kirkbride and architect Samuel Sloan, famed architect of the time. With three wings set in echelon formation, the hospital was an…

Dr. Peter Bryce, the first superintendent of Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and his wife Ellen Peter Bryce are buried on the lawn of the hospital. The monument reads:

Peter Bryce, M.D.
March 5, 1834
August 14, 1892
For 32 years…

In 1963, Miss Florence Lutz was the chief dietitian at Druid City Hospital (now DCH Regional Medical Center). She is shown here inspecting trays and food while giving directions to Jessie Stallworth, dietary maid, for the serving of a noon meal. …

Daniel Otis McClusky Jr. was born July 23, 1916, in Birmingham, Ala., and died Oct. 12, 2008, at DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, at the age of 92. He served for over three decades as administrator of the hospital.

When McClusky…