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Title: Kansas City Health
Description: Information on the history of health care provision and facilities in Kansas City, including hospitals and doctors, etc.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Swope Community Enterprises
Description: File contains articles, illustrations, and advertisements for the different components of the Swope enterprises: Swope Health Services, First-Guard Health Plan, Swope Community Builders, and the Applied Urban Research Institute.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Alcoholism
Description: File contains a pamplet or booklet (ca. 1968) on the Benjamin Burroughs Ralph Foundation for Medical Research at 529 Highland Avenue in Kansas City, chartered in 1954. Named for Dr. Benjamin Ralph, a pioneer doctor in treating alcoholics as disease-sufferers around 1910.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Sharon Lee, M.D.
Description: This book contains one page personal accounts of the lives of numerous women from the Kansas City metro area, as well as their photograph. Includes Sharon Lee, founder of the Southwest Boulevard Family Health Clinic.
Date: 2002
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Menninger Foundation
Description: Photos and information on Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger, or Karl Menninger, a psychiatrist and co-founder of the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, in 1925 (a nationally top-ranked psychiatric hospital) and author of the 1930 book "The Human Mind."
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Kansas City People
Description: File containing a biographical article about Mamie Hughes Rodgers, or Mamie Rodgers, "a former Jackson County legislator and former chief executive officer of the Black Economic Union." Also "ombudsman-coordinator for the Bruce R. Watkins Drive project" and widow of Dr. Samuel Rodgers, a prominent local black physician and namesake of the Samuel U. Rodgers Community Health Center.
Date: 1989-01-01
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: KC Free Health Clinic Works to Meet Rising Health Care Needs
Description: The Kansas City Free HEalth Clinic was founded in 1971. Although its work has evolved its core mission is still "to promote health and wellness by providing quality services, at no charge, to people without access to basic care". In 2001 it moved from 39th and Main to 3515 Broadway.
Date: 2005-12-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Northeast Medical Office Provides Options
Description: The Northeast Medical Office is located at 4126 St. John Avenue. Patients of the clinic were sent to Trinity Lutheran Hospital which recently closed. It is hoped that Health Midwest will not close this medical health care clinic as a result of the hospital closing. Article includes a photograph of Dr. Sells and the exterior of the clinic.
Date: 2001-12-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Refining Treatments
Description: University Health Sciences clinic tests new drugs before they are made public. This center is one of many testing drugs across the country.
Date: 2002-04-24
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Samuel U. Rodgers: The Legacy Lives On
Description: Although Dr. Samuel U. Rodgers died in 1999, he is still remembered for his dedication to providing good public health. His clinic named after him is located at 825 Euclid Avenue in the Northeast area. Article lists the services given by the clinic.
Date: 2002-08-07
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: May We Present Dorothy Gallagher
Description: Photo and biographical article about Dorothy Gallagher, founder of the Guadalupe Center with a new "Spanish Colonial building" designed by architect E. G. Rainey under construction. Description of her life and career, raised in Kansas City and starting clinic work "in the midst of the Mexican colony which had formed about Our Lady of Guadalupe Church" on West 23rd Street in the 1920s.
Date: 1935-03-22
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Dr. Wilson Myers
Description: Obituary for Dr. Wilson Alexander Myers, or Wilson Myers, a physician and operator of the Myers Clinic, dying in 1967.
Date: 1967-01-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Dr. John Myers
Description: Obituary for Dr. John Myers, a physician and founder of the Myers Clinic, dying at the age of 87 in 1959.
Date: 1959-05-21
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Clinic Waiting Room
Description: View of the Guadalupe Center's clinic waiting room at 907 W. 23rd Street. Miss Helen Burke is sitting at the desk. Mrs. Antonia Christian is standing in the back to the right.
Date: 1925
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Guadalupe Center Baby Clinic
Description: Exam room of the Guadalupe Center baby clinic. Identified in the photograph are Jewell Walters, V.N.A., Dr. Summers, and Antonio Christian. Handwriting on the back on the photo reads, "Weekly Baby Clinic at Guadalupe Center."
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Guadalupe Center Clinic Waiting Room
Description: Handwriting on the back of the photograph reads, "Babies and mothers in the waiting room at Guadalupe Center Baby Clinic."
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Guadalupe Center Clinic
Description: View of several boys lined up in the Guadalupe Center clinic. One of the boys is having his height measured.
Date: 1925
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Guadalupe Center Clinic
Description: A malnourished or sick infant laying on a table in the Guadalupe Center's clinic.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Guadalupe Center Clinic
Description: Exam room of the Guadalupe Center clinic at 907 W. 23rd Street. A doctor is speaking with a woman. Nurse Jewell Walters, V.N.A., is standing to the right of the desk. Handwriting on the back of the photo reads, "Amberg Club."
Date: 1925
Object Type: Photograph

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