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The following advertisement is from the March 5, 1909 Louisville News and includes a claim of an X -ray <br />machine along with the statement that the hospital has "the best operating room in Boulder Co ": <br />THE LOUISVILLE HOSPITAL <br />Louisville, 13ak,. <br />Nire`yrvate rooms, reasoaabh <br />rates. Good medical ant <br />surgical servire. The hes° <br />operating room In Boulder Co <br />Special Mohan paid h <br />Rheumatism, Cancer, Drops: <br />and Surgical Diseases. <br />X•RAY APPARATUS FREE <br />MRS. MAGGIE LEJA, <br />MFlTR011 <br />All three of these photos of the hospital were taken in 1909, and the Louisville directory for 1910 lists <br />the hospital as a "Miners Hospital" with Dr. "Solominski" as superintendent. <br />The two doctors in the three photos above have been identified as Dr. Slominski and Dr. Ingram, and the <br />three nurses have been identified as Louisville residents Sarah Hoffmire Sullivan, Mima Hilton, and Nora <br />Moffitt. The identities of the others are unknown. Warsaw -born Dr. Ladislaus Slominski (1852- 1926), <br />shown in the photos, was the founder and chief of the Union Labor Hospital Association. This was a <br />national association with the stated goal of building hospitals for members of labor unions. Records <br />indicate that at the time, he was based in Denver, which he had chosen for the national headquarters of <br />the Union Labor Hospital Association. According to the March 18, 1908 Denver Rocky Mountain News, <br />this association was formed as a not - for - profit corporation in Denver that year. According to the March <br />11, 1908 issue of the same newspaper, the plan was for the hospital association to serve union members <br />and to also provide training for nurses "who are to be, as far as possible, daughters of union men." <br />Conclusive information as to exactly when the hospital was located in the building has not been found. <br />Nelle Wolfer Willis described it as "a short time." Author Carolyn Conarroe, in her book The Louisville <br />Story, noted that the building was moved and indicated that it was a hospital from "from about 1905 <br />5 <br />