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Title
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Good Shepherd Manor
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Description
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Photos and information on the Good Shepherd Manor (operated by the Brothers of the Good Shepherd) opened in 1967 at 3220 East 23rd Street in Kansas City for mentally and physically handicapped young men. Established on the site of the former Queen of the World Hospital, operating from 1955 to 1965 (and from 1899 to 1953 as the Saint Vincent Hospital) and demolished in 1973.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Saint Vincent Hospital
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Description
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Full frontal and partial side view; located at 3210 E. 23rd Street. St. Vincent Hospital was established in 1899; closed in 1953. It reopened in 1955 under the name Queen of the World, which closed in 1965.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City General Hospital No. 2
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Description
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The article starts: "At the turn of the century, public hospitalization for Kansas City, Missouri, non-white population was very limited. There existed on Holmes Street, overlooking the Belt railroad tracks, the Kansas City Municipal Hospital, later to become known as 'Old City Hospital'. This structure built in about 1873, with some later additions, housed for 35 years the indigent sick whites, with a few beds for the non-whites (Negro and Mexican)." Mentioned are Dr.Thomas C. Unthank and Dr. J. Edward Perry. Perry opened the Perry Sanitarium in 1910, Kansas City's first private Negro hospital. The history concerning the building of General Hospital No.2 for African Americans is given with lists of doctors who were on staff. Also discussed are topics as how well other hospitals in the area integrated, integration in the Kansas City Health Department, information concerning Queen of the World Hospital which opened in the mid-1950s, the Kansas City Medical Society, Douglass Hospital, Wheatley-Provident Hospital, the Doctors Clinic, etc. Short biographical information is given at the end of the article for the following article contributors: Samuel U. Rodgers, Walter R. Peterson, James S. Johnson, Harry S. Jonas, Charles B. Wilkinson, Houshang Yaghami, John W. Armstead, and Myron H. Watkins.
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Date
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1962-09-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
