The following memories and stories about the Maitland Hospital emerged from background research, and from being shared by artists, staff, volunteers, patients and community members.
We’re waiting with you.
Photographs from the Maitland Hospital Collection that capture moments of waiting, watching, helping and lounging around as well as celebratory and commemorative occasions. Prints of the photographs are now on the walls of the Outpatient wait areas in the new Maitland Hospital.
Collected Memory.
An overview of the Collected Memory Project and its outcomes in documenting, sharing and celebrating Maitland Hospital’s long history through art and displays in the new Maitland Hospital, an exhibition, this website and community engagement.
Imaging prints.
Mid-twentieth century images of the hospital printed from old photoengraving blocks, and now hanging in the Imaging wait area of the new Maitland Hospital.
Printing from blocks.
Mid-twentieth century wood and zinc photoengraving blocks in the Maitland Hospital Collection, and the skilled and labour intensive work that was involved in printing from them.
First matron.
Susan O’Doherty’s textile sculpture of Maitland Hospital’s first matron, Elizabeth Morrow, is the core of a display in the new Maitland Hospital about Morrow and what she represents in the history of nursing at the hospital and elsewhere.
Hospital staff.
Adrian Lockhart’s painting ‘Hospital staff’ and a small collection of items are displayed in the new Maitland Hospital in honour of the staff who, in their many and varied roles, have provided health care throughout the history of the hospital.
Openings and public events.
A display in the new Maitland Hospital marking the many public events and openings throughout the hospital’s history.
Distract and play.
An artwork by Anita Johnson and a 1950s photograph as reminders of creative ways to distract and entertain children in the hospital. The items are on display in the new Maitland Hospital.