Historic Photographs

Do you have a historic health-care-related photograph you would like to share with your fellow CMA members? If so, please e-mail a high-resolution (300dpi minimum) scan to kgallia@cmanet.org. We will post them here and possibly use them in our 150th Anniversary Book.

Benjamin Franklin Keene, M.D., of El Dorado County
was CMA's first president in 1856.

Thomas Logan, M.D., of Sacramento became CMA president in 1870. He later went on to become president of the American Medical Association.

Old Pioneer Hall on J Street in Old Town Sacramento was the site of CMA's first meeting in 1856. Photo provided courtesy of the City of Sacramento, Convention, Culture, and Leisure Department.

Old Pioneer Hall on J Street in Old Town Sacramento was the site of CMA's first meeting in 1856. Photo, taken February 23, 1940, is provided courtesy of the City of Sacramento, Convention, Culture, and Leisure Department.

12th and J Street, photographed in 1925. CMA's current headquarters stands on the corner previously occupied by the Orpheum Theater. Photo courtesy of the City of Sacramento, Convention, Culture, and Leisure Department.

Nurses pose on steps of White Hospital. Photo courtesy of the City of Sacramento, Convention, Culture, and Leisure Department.

Children and parents line up to receive the Salk polio vaccine outside the Santa Clara County Health Department in 1955. Photo courtesy of the Santa Clara County Medical Association.

Dr. George Barnett, second from left, and Dr. Leo Eloesser, in the dark suit, who was a leading CMA physician in the fight on tuberculosis, treat a patient. Photo courtesy of Palo Alto Medical Group Foundation.