Landmarks Commission

Title: Operating Room Facilities
Description: Interior view, believed to be an operating room at General Hospital No. 1. View includes unidentified operating room personnel performing surgery. Research and Budget Department stamp is located on the back of the photograph.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Medical Personnel
Description: Interior view of male medical personnel playing musical instruments in an unidentified lounge area presumably at General Hospital. No identification on individuals.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Hospital Adult Patient Care
Description: Interior view of two health care personnel assisting an unidentified female patient with a medical procedure. Probably taken at General Hospital.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nursing Students
Description: Exterior view of unidentified young men and women in and by a Chevrolet automobile parked outside of General Hospital. A 24th Street street sign is in view. Believed to be nursing students and other medical students.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Tuberculosis Hospital
Description: Exterior view of Kansas City Tuberculosis Hospital built by prisoners of the Municipal Farm in Leeds "under the supervision of the architect and necessary foremen." Prior to the completion of the hospital, patients were cared for in a tent colony on a hill just east of the building beginning in 1913. The hospital opened Christmas Day 1915 with 18 patients from the tent colony. ("Jackson County Medical Journal," Vol. 26, No. 39, pp. 7-11) The building was razed in 1971 ("Kansas City Star," October 8, 1995, page 4). Address in 1916 city directory simply says Leeds, Mo. In 1932, it was listed as being at 1410 Raytown Road, and in 1942 and 1955 at 4210 Raytown Road.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nursing Students
Description: Interior view, two unidentified nursing students, believed to be at General Hospital. Girls are holding Coca-Cola bottles.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nursing Students
Description: Interior view believed to be in a nursing student lounge area in General Hospital No. 1. Individuals are not identified. Included in the scene is a record player cabinet and 78 rpm records.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nutrition/Food Services in Hospital
Description: Interior view, unidentified nurse with two nursing students with a hospital patient's food tray located on a table. Probably taken at General Hospital No. 1.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Laboratory Employees
Description: Interior view with an unidentified man and woman viewing laboratory items. Location not given, probably taken at the city laboratory in General Hospital.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: X-Ray Department
Description: Interior view of two unidentified medical personnel looking at a chest x-ray. Location not given.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Instruction on Medical Diagnosis
Description: Interior view of classroom, location not given. Teacher is identified as Dr. Cofer. Class title is not given, but a patient in a hospital bed is positioned up front and a series of x-rays is visible and being used by the teacher.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambulance Service
Description: View of two ambulance attendants working on a man laying on the ground. Probably a drill situation or staged photograph. Ambulance has "Kansas City Health Department" on the side. Exact location not given.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nutrition/Food Service in Hospital
Description: Interior view with a group of unidentified young women, probably nursing students, seated and eating at a table in a room along with others. Probably taken at General Hospital No. 1.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Hospital Adult Patient Care
Description: Interior view of patient lying in a hospital bed being attended to by three unidentified health care providers, including two nurses or nursing students. Location is probably General Hospital.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pediatric Care
Description: Interior view, pediatric ward presumably at General Hospital No. 1. Medical personnel shown feeding with a spoon a small child seated on her lap. No identification of people. Picture appeared in the City Manager's annual report, 1947-48, p. 32, MVSC Q 092.52 K16, 1940-48.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nutrition/Food Services in Hospital
Description: Interior view, cafeteria counter at General Hospital No. 1. Appears to be nursing students in serving line. No identification of individuals in the photograph.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nurses in Training
Description: Interior view of three young women in what appears to be their living quarters. Presumed to be nurses in training, probably at General Hospital.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Medical Personnel
Description: Interior view of unidentified male medical student or personnel, believed to have been taken at General Hospital.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nursing Students Swimming
Description: Interior view, unidentified swimming pool with eight young women, believed to be nursing students at General Hospital.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Unidentified Building
Description: Exterior view of building with no identification. Assumed associated with the city's health care services.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

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