Stark General Hospital
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Description:
Black and white photograph of three soldiers posing for the photographer as they shake hands in an office at Stark General Hospital. Notation on reverse identifies the officer to the far right as "Colonel Vaughn."
Stark General Hospital was located on Dorchester Road, Rural Delivery 2 and was officially named in honor of Colonel Alexander N. Stark on February 11, 1941. It accommodated 2,400 beds and was ready for patients on May 18, 1941 specializing in general and orthopedic surgery. As the war progressed it became a fully-functional debarkation hospital for casualties and sick personnel arriving at the Port of Charleston.
- Title: Stark General Hospital
- Photographer: Unattributed
- Date: c. 1944
- Collection: Photograph Collection
- Object Name: World War II
- Object Id: 2010.2.1
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