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Title: About Town
Description: Biographical article about Audrey Holt, "honored with a retirement luncheon" for "[m]ore than 30 years of public service in the nursing profession." Description of her life and career, born in Oklahoma and raised in Olathe before coming to Kansas City in 1932 as a nurse, then going to Europe with the Red Cross in 1945 and returning here in the 1950s.
Date: 1964-11-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Mrs. Lorinda Harris, Nursing Head, Dies
Description: Vertical file contains a photo and obituary for Mrs. Lorinda Harris, "superintendent of Nurses at General hospital No. 2 for 21 years." Prior to starting with General Hospital Number 2 in Kansas City in 1926, she was a graduate of and professional nurse at nursing programs and hospitals around the country, including being superintendent of nurses at Wheatley Hospital in Kansas City just before going to General. Her age and address are not given in the obituary.
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Thera Doll Ramos
Description: Obituary for Thera Doll Ramos, wife of Dr. John F. Ramos, Jr. As a former nurse, Ramos worked at Queen of the World Hospital and Wheatley Hospital in Kansas City. She married Dr. John Ramos, Jr. After his death in 1970, she moved to Highland Park, Illinois, and became director of Lake County Head Start. She died March 23, 2010.
Date: 2010-03-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Mrs. John Ramos, Sr.
Description: Obituary for Mrs. John Ramos, Sr., an army nurse in World War I, wife of John Ramos, Sr. (and mother of Dr. John Ramos, Jr.), and a career public health nurse in Newark, New Jersey, dying on October 22, 1969.
Date: 1969-10-23
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Miss Frances E. Kitchen, R.N., Named Twentieth Woman of the Week
Description: Vertical file containing a photo and biographical article about Miss Frances Kitchen, "superintendent of Douglass hospital" and nurse at that institution in Kansas City, Kansas. She was active in the local African Methodist Episcopal Church and started with the hospital in 1920 as a nurse when it was located at 312 Washington Boulevard. She remained at the hospital through its relocations to 336 Quindaro Boulevard and then 3400 North 27th Street in 1945.
Date: 1949-07-01
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Event for 26 Nurses
Description: Isabelle Brandon was the first student to be graduated from the General Hospital School of Nursing.
Date: 1955-05-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Klassen Turns Emotion to Color
Description: Photo and biographical article about "registered nurse Kathy Klassen" starting out as an artist about 1996 with one of her paintings "featured in this year's Cultures Without Borders exhibit, currently on display at UMB Bank on Independence Avenue."
Date: 2001-05-23
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Industry Outlook: Health Care
Description: This issue of Ingrams contains "Industry Outlook", v.3, number 3 which deals with the issue of health care. It includes the top area nursing programs ranked by total enrollment for Spring, 2003, the report of the Healthcare Industry Outlook group meeting, article about expansion plans at North Kansas City Hospital, and other articles on health care.
Date: 2003-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Pioneer in Nursing Dies
Description: Obituary article about Jennie Lund, "76, of 1511 West Walnut, Independence, a pioneer in the profession of licensed practical nursing." Description of her life and career, born in in San Francisco in 1900 and surviving the earthquake and fire there in 1906 before moving to Independence, Missouri, in 1908 as "a participant in the program of the Kansas City school of practical nursing at Research hospital." Namesake of the "Jennie Lund School of Practical nursing at 101 North Forest avenue, Independence," established in 1966.
Date: 1970-11-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Heroes in Healthcare
Description: Section of the magazine which gives brief professional information on various persons involved in different aspects of the health care field including administration, professional services, registered nurses, auxiliary staff, volunteers, and lifetime services. It includes 21 people with their pictures. Also includes a list of the top area nursing programs ranked by total enrollment, Spring, 2004 and a list of life sciences research institutes and organizations for Missouri and Kansas.
Date: 2004-02-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Luevilla Perkins Retires after 42 Years of Nursing
Description: File containing a photo and biographical article about Luevilla Perkins, "65, retired from the General hospital nursing staff." Born in Louisiana in 1909 and coming to Kansas City around the early 1930s as a student at "the old General Hospital No. 2 School of Nursing."
Date: 1975-02-07
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Obituary for Ethlyn Cockrell
Description: Obituary for Ethlyn Cockrell, dying at the age of 87, a pioneer nurse of Princeton, Missouri.
Date: 1963-10-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Nursing School Changes Location But Not Principles
Description: Brief article reporting the move of the Research College of Nursing from a location at 2300 E. Meyer Boulevard to a renovated former doctor's building at 2525 E. Meyer Boulevard. The Research College of Nursing celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2005, having been founded in 1905 as the German Hospital Training School for Nurses (the German Hospital was the forerunner of Research Hospital).
Date: 2005-12-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Red Cross Station
Description: Red Cross aid station in the aftermath of the 1951 Flood. City Ice Co. Building pictured in background; also shown is a nurse and several unidentified men, one lying on a cot.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nursing Student
Description: Exterior view of an unidentified nursing student standing with what appears to be her diploma, wearing a nurse's uniform and what looks like a nursing pin. Identified on the back of the photograph as: "1942 class of 54. One of the graduates of Gen. Hosp. Nursing Schools." The photographs appeared in the City Manager's annual report for 1941-42, p. 25, Q 092.52 K16 1940-48. The caption reads: "One of class of 54 graduates of General Hospital nursing schools."
Date: 1942
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nurse and Hospital Exhibit
Description: Interior view of an exhibit which features hospitals and nursing and includes a mannequin in a nurse's uniform. Sign located in back reads: "Emery Bird's Proudly Presents" and poster by nurse reads: "Kansas City Pays Tribute to it's Hospitals & Nurses, May 12, 1946, National Hospital Day." Smaller placard in exhibit reads: "This exhibit prepared by the nurses at the General Hospital, No.1."
Date: 1946
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nursing Class
Description: Exterior view of women nursing students, along with five men, lined up on steps. Identified on the back of the photographs as the 1959 General Hospital class of student nurses. Individuals are not identified. Probably taken at General Hospital. Includes African American students.
Date: 1959
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nursing Students Event
Description: Interior view, Kansas City General Hospital No. 1, unidentified formal social event presumably for nursing students. Includes a young woman being crowned, and holding a bouquet of flowers with a ribbon that has "Gen. No. 1, 1952" on it. No one is identified.
Date: 1952
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Saint Luke's Hospital
Description: Exterior view of nurse Fern Miller and patient Sylva Davis; located at 44th and Mill Creek Parkway.
Date: 1938-05-28
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Saint Anthony's Hospital
Description: Interior view of unidentified nurses and cribs.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Photograph

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