Stark General Hospital
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Description:
Black and white photograph of the officer in charge cutting a large block of butter in the kitchen at Stark General Hospital. Notation on reverse reads, "Chopping Butter in the Stark Hospital Kitchen."
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: 2010.2.20
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