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.

Object Details
Object title:

Plastic number sign from the door to Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital

Date:

circa 1960

Medium:

Plastic

Dimensions:

2 x 3 3/16 x 1/16 in. (5.1 x 8.1 x 0.2 cm)

Credit line:

Timothy Stiles Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2010.003.0001

Curatorial Note:

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.

Object Details
Object title:

Plastic number sign from the door to Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital

Date:

circa 1960

Terms:

Trauma Room One

Sign

Parkland Hospital

Dallas

Medium:

Plastic

Dimensions:

2 x 3 3/16 x 1/16 in. (5.1 x 8.1 x 0.2 cm)

Credit line:

Timothy Stiles Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2010.003.0001

Curatorial Note:

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