Plastic number sign from the door to Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital
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Plastic number sign from the door to Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital
Small black plastic sign marked with the number 1 from the door to Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital.
Plastic number sign from the door to Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital
circa 1960
Plastic
2 x 3 3/16 x 1/16 in. (5.1 x 8.1 x 0.2 cm)
Timothy Stiles Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2010.003.0001
This door marker closely resembles the sign on the door in a photograph from the Don Pyeatt Collection (see 2000.049.020). The door to Trauma Room One is also visible in a photograph from the Claire Campbell Collection (see 1995.034.0006) but the number sign on the door is obscured by a floral arrangement. - Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections
In a 2009 oral history with The Sixth Floor Museum, donor Timothy Stiles explains that he took this plastic door marker "kind of on a dare" during Emergency medical technician (EMT) training at Parkland Memorial Hospital in the early 1970s. While working as a jail guard and ambulance driver in the 1970s, Stiles interacted with a number of individuals involved in the assassination story and developed an interest in the subject. Shortly after this door marker was removed, in 1973, Trauma Room One as a whole was dismantled and its contents sold to the U.S. Government. Today, that material is stored in an underground government storage facility in Kansas. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator
Plastic number sign from the door to Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital
Small black plastic sign marked with the number 1 from the door to Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital.
Plastic number sign from the door to Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital
circa 1960
Trauma Room One
Sign
Parkland Hospital
Dallas
Plastic
2 x 3 3/16 x 1/16 in. (5.1 x 8.1 x 0.2 cm)
Timothy Stiles Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2010.003.0001
This door marker closely resembles the sign on the door in a photograph from the Don Pyeatt Collection (see 2000.049.020). The door to Trauma Room One is also visible in a photograph from the Claire Campbell Collection (see 1995.034.0006) but the number sign on the door is obscured by a floral arrangement. - Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections
In a 2009 oral history with The Sixth Floor Museum, donor Timothy Stiles explains that he took this plastic door marker "kind of on a dare" during Emergency medical technician (EMT) training at Parkland Memorial Hospital in the early 1970s. While working as a jail guard and ambulance driver in the 1970s, Stiles interacted with a number of individuals involved in the assassination story and developed an interest in the subject. Shortly after this door marker was removed, in 1973, Trauma Room One as a whole was dismantled and its contents sold to the U.S. Government. Today, that material is stored in an underground government storage facility in Kansas. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator
Related objects
Letter concerning the disposition of Trauma Room I at Parkland Hospital
8/13/1973
Color photograph of the door to Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital
1973
Color photo of flowers on the door to Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital
11/22/1965
"Parkland Hospital: Trauma Room One Reunion" Program
09/24/2013
