Dr. Katharine Richardson

Folder contains an oversize card suitable for mailing. One was sent honoring the birthday of Dr. Richardson and the other was in loving remembrance of her. Her photograph is included on each card as well as some of her writings. Also included are poems and excerpts concerning her from various publications. The vertical files in this collection were formerly a part of the department's regular vertical files.

1933/1934

Vertical Files
Children's Mercy Hospital
Richardson, Katharine B.

Dr. Richardson was born around 1860 and died in 1933. She was a medical doctor and her sister Alice Berry Graham was a dentist. Both of these women were instrumental in starting Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., in 1897.

Archival Material

SC63, Memorials and Death Notices, 1881-1939

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