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Title
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SC198 Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection contains items relating to the Willows Maternity Home, which operated at 2929 Main in Kansas City, Missouri from 1905 to 1969. Also known as the Willows Maternity Sanitarium or the Willows Maternity Hospital, the institution served as an adoption service and private, temporary home for unwed mothers.
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Date
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1915/1930
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Sumer Views in the Willows Maternity Sanitarium
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Description
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Promotional booklet for the Willows Maternity Home, once located at 2929 Main Street. The booklet features a text introduction to the hospital and its operations and photographs of workspaces, nurses, staff, and children born at the Willows.
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Date
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1926~
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Willows Magazine
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Description
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Copy of the May-June 1916 issue of The Willows Magazine published by the Willows Maternity Home. Descriptions of the hospital's mission, staff, operations, activities, and tips for adoptive parents are included. The magazine includes articles titled: A Short Description of the Services Offered by the Willows Maternity Sanitarium, Be Careful What You Say, Our Obligation to Childhood, Bad Habits Innocently Formed, Our Adopted Baby, Don'ts for Baby, Some Questions and Answers, New Grace Hospital, Nursey Maid Training Course, The Abortionist, News Items, Some Stories, Specialized Obstetric Training Course, Specialists in Obstetric and Infant Nursing, Want Ad Department, Strictly Ethical, and Preparing Baby's Food.
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Date
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1916-05
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Finesse of Service
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Description
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Promotional booklet for the Willows Maternity Home directed at physicians. The front cover reads: "Explaining to our physician patrons some of the refinements in our plans for the protecting of their unfortunate patients."
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Date
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1924~
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Willows: The Door to a New Life
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Description
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Promotional booklet published by the Willows Maternity Home. The cover page notes "As told by a mother - only a mother could have writ this. This is the first time we have had the case of an unfortunate girl presented from the angle of her mother. Good fortune gives us the presentation by an unusual and interesting mother. Very few people ever visualize a case as it comes from this woman's pen until it appears as a member of their own family. In fact, few people are even then so philosophic and reasoning, and yet withal so charitably loving to their erring daughters. Read this mother's story."
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Date
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1926~
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Who Will Help, How to Get Help
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Description
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Promotional booklet published for the Willows Maternity Home. From the inside cover: "This booklet is a study of the resources of an unfortunate girl. The great questions that arise in more than ninety-five per cent of the cases are: To whom may she appeal to get the funds needed for getting her out of her trouble? What excuse shall she give for asking for money? (This if she has to get help from someone who does not and should not know of her trouble.) Under what pretext may she be absent from home and friends? These questions are answered in the light of almost a quarter century's experience and the care of five thousand higher grade unfortunates. Its suggestions should meet the needs of practically any better grade case that presents itself to the profession."
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Date
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1927~
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Interesting Willows Statistics
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Description
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Promotional booklet for the Willows Maternity Home. From the inside cover: "Facts brought to life through a sociological analysis of the patients seeking seclusion at the Willows Maternity Sanitarium."
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Date
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1921
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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A Ten Years' Survey of Seclusion Maternity Service
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Description
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Promotional booklet published by the Willows Maternity Home. From the inside cover: "A sociological analysis of the patients cared for by the Willows Maternity Sanitarium covering the ten-year period, 1927 t0 1936 inclusive.
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Date
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1936
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Object Type
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Book
