UAMS Groundbreaking

Groundbreaking ceremony for the West Markham location of what is now the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock (Pulaski County); 1951. Left to right: Governor Sid McMath, Dr. Lewis Jones, and Dr. Hayden C. Nicholson.

Three white men in suits laughing while using a shovel to break ground with tree and spectators behind them

Courtesy of the UAMS Library’s Historical Research Center