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Title: Ambulance Service
Description: Exterior view of two Kansas City ambulances parked by garage doors at the ambulance division of General Hospital No.1. Two unidentified attendants are lifting a stretcher into the back of one of the ambulances. The other is parked beside it with two attendants inside the vehicle. The ambulances are Ford V-8 models, one identified as 5-581 with the city logo visible on the door.
Date: 1952
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Hospital Adult Patient Care
Description: Interior view of a health care provider giving an eye test to a seated unidentified female. Location not given, presumed to be at General Hospital.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Instruction on Medical Procedures
Description: Interior view of what may be a class on first aid instruction. Given to a group of women including two African American women. Location may be General Hospital. No one is identified.
Date: 1945~/1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: P34-1 Kansas City Health Care Photograph Collection Finding Aid
Description: This photograph collection contains 198 black and white photographs taken in the 1940s-1950s. The images are of health care facilities and services maintained by the Kansas City Health Department. Includes General Hospital Nos. 1 and 2, the TB Hospital in the Leeds area, nursing program, etc. The collection was acquired from the Kansas City Landmarks Commission.
Date: 1940~/1959~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Neglected History Sought
Description: Article announces that documentary filmmaker Kevin Wilmott and historians Deborah Dandridge and Tanya Hart are beginning work on a film focusing upon healthcare provided to African Americans living in Kansas City during the Jim Crow era. Wilmott is interviewed and provides a brief history of the city's General Hospitals No. 1 and No. 2. Former employees and patients of the city's segregated hospital are interviewed and describe their unequal treatment and conditions of the facility.
Date: 2013-03-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: History in the Mending
Description: Article describes the evolution of health care in the Kansas City region, from the earliest hospitals to the establishment of large medical schools and research institutions. A decade-by-decade description of the system's growth and development is provided, as well as a timeline of hospital openings and closings from 1864 to 2007. Over time, suburbanization has led to several hospital closings in Kansas City's urban core.
Date: 2014-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Hospital Adult Patient Care
Description: Interior view of two health care personnel assisting an unidentified female patient with a medical procedure. Probably taken at General Hospital.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Truman Medical Centers History
Description: Book contains a short history of the Truman Medical Centers located on Hospital Hill in Kansas City, Missouri and in Lakewood in southeastern Kansas City. It is also the primary teaching hospital for the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Medicine. In the early days, TMC Hospital Hill was known as Kansas City General Hospital and TMC East as the Jackson County Hospital. The book also states, "In 1976 Kansas City General Hospital and the Jackson County Hospital merged to form Truman Medical Center."
Date: 2002
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Instruction to Adult Hospital Patients
Description: Interior view, nurses giving instruction to women hospital patients. Probably taken in the obstetrics ward at General Hospital. No identification of individuals.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Hospital Adult Patient Care
Description: Interior view of two female health care providers assisting an older unidentified woman with the use of crutches. Taken perhaps in a therapy room at the hospital.
Date: 1945~/1950~
Object Type: Photograph

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