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Title: UMKC Dental School
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Western Dental College
Description: Description of the Western Dental College, established in 1890 in Kansas City, highlighting its rapid growth of students.
Date: 1896
Object Type: Book Section

Title: The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
Description: Biographical sketch of Alfred Homer Trego, or Alfred Trego, a dentist of Kansas City. Born in Pennsylvania in 1830 and coming to Kansas City in 1873 as a pioneer dentist.
Date: 1878
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City Dentistry
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Dentistry In Kansas City
Description: File includes the history of the Western Dental College, organized in 1890-1891 under chairman Dr. W. G. Price, in three different locations until consolidated with the Kansas City Dental College in 1919.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: The Best Dentists
Description: Lists of the "best dentists" of each specialty.
Date: 1986-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Inner City Smiling Bright
Description: The Panda Place Wellness Center at McCoy Elementary School is now providing dental care for its students as well as health care. The article states that "McCoy is the only school in Missouri with an inhouse medical and dental facility." The Center works in conjunction with the Samuel U. Rodgers Community Health Center.
Date: 2003-03-12
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Westside Health Center
Description: Interior view of dental office at Westside Health Center. Dentist and children in view. Located at 721 W. 18th Street according to the 1930 Kansas City city directory.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Dr. Hugh G. Tanzey: He Had Been a Dentist and Orthodontist Here 37 Years
Description: Obituary for dentist Hugh Tanzey, a founding dentist and former president of the Western Dental College.
Date: 1948-01-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Western Dental College
Description: Folder contains a reprint of an article giving a historical sketch of dental schools and the Kansas City Western Dental College which appeared in the "Xi Psi Phi Quarterly" for May, 1935. Also included is a pamphlet entitled "The Black Study Club of Kansas City, Mo." which includes the names and photos of the group. It was composed of members of the Western Dental College Alumni Association. The vertical files in this collection were formerly a part of the department's regular vertical files.
Date: 1935/1990
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Local Dentist Elected First Black To Serve On Board of American Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
Description: Dr. Brett Ferguson of Kansas City was recently elected to serve on the Board of American Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. Ferguson was appointed chairman of OMS at the UMKC School of Dentistry in 2006.
Date: 2011-10-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Who Are the Dentists' Dentists in Kansas City?
Description: Article about the "most outstanding local dentists," of each type: oral surgeon, orthodontist, endodontist, periodontist, prosthodontist, pedodontist, and general dentist.
Date: 1980-03
Object Type: Magazine Article