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Title
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Mrs. Lorinda Harris, Nursing Head, Dies
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Description
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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.
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Miss Frances E. Kitchen, R.N., Named Twentieth Woman of the Week
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1949-07-01
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Luevilla Perkins Retires after 42 Years of Nursing
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Description
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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."
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Date
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1975-02-07
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Mrs. Princess Crouch Chooses Nursing Career at Age of Nine
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Description
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Vertical file with photo and biographical article about Mrs. Princess Crouch, "superintendent of nurses at Wheatley Provident hospital" for more than 20 years in 1949. Crouch was a native of Texas and "the first Negro woman to apply for and pass the Texas State Board of Nurse Examiners" there before coming to Kansas City in 1930, "where she began as dietician and buyer at Wheatley."
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Date
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1949-05-20
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Object Type
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Vertical File
