University of Texas Medical Branch
The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) is a public academic health science center in Galveston, Texas, United States. It is part of the University of Texas System. UTMB includes the oldest medical school in Texas, and has about 11,000 employees. As of February 2019, it had an endowment of $560 million.
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"Old Red", the medical school's original building
The First John Sealy Hospital
Galveston is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas. The community of 211.31 square miles (547.3 km2), with a population of 53,695 at the 2020 census, is the county seat of surrounding Galveston County and second-largest municipality in the county. It is also within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area at its southern end on the northwestern coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Plan of the City of Galveston (c. 1845)
The Beach Hotel catered to vacationers until a fire in 1898.
Sunset Route, Seawall, Galveston, Texas (postcard, c. 1907)
Damage after Hurricane Carla, 1961