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Title: Works Progress Administration Education Group
Description: Adults and children pose in a classroom. The caption reads, "Adult Education O.P. 465 -55-3-116 W.P. 5158 English-Guadalupe Center Kansas City MO. June 9-38 Plate - 1839." A Works Progress Administration (WPA) sign is visible in foreground.
Date: 1938-06-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Works Progress Administration Education Group
Description: Adults and children pose in a classroom. Some of the men are holding guitars. The caption reads, "Adult Education O.P. 465 -55-3-116 W.P. 5158 English - Guadalupe Center Kansas City MO. June-9-38 Okate -1838." A Works Progress Administration (WPA) sign is visible in foreground.
Date: 1938-06-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Works Progress Administration Education Group
Description: Women and girls pose in a workroom with quilts and clothes on display. The caption reads, "Adult Education O.P. 465 -55-3-116 W.P. 5158 Sewing - Guadalupe Center Kansas City MO. June 9-38 Plate - 1837." A Works Progress Administration (WPA) sign is visible in foreground.
Date: 1938-06-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Artist Makes her Mark in Vivid Colors
Description: Artist Anabella Pena, or "Uxmal," has painted Maya-themed murals in places such as Plaza de Ninos and the Ruiz Branch of Kansas City Public Library. She also works with young people, training them in arts and crafts at the Guadalupe Center.
Date: 1985-08-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: SC173 Agnes Ward Amberg Club Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Agnes Ward Amberg Club Collection contains newspaper and magazine clippings, a pamphlet, and two annual reports relating to the organization.
Date: 1919/1944
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: A Case Study of the Agnes Ward Amberg Club of Kansas City, Mo.
Description: A 13-page typewritten paper about the history and organizational structure of the club as well as the service given. Includes mention of Guadalupe Center, Holy Rosary Center, St. Francis Health Center, etc. The Agnes Ward Amberg Club of Kansas City was named after Mrs. Amberg who developed volunteer service among the Italians of Chicago. The constitution stated its object "shall be to acquire a broader knowledge of Catholic Social Problems, and to work toward their solution."
Date: 1929
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: SC20 Guadalupe Center Collection Finding Aid
Description: Established in 1919, the Guadalupe Center originally served as a settlement house and gathering place for the growing community of Mexican immigrants residing on the West Side of Kansas City. The center offered a variety of programs, including medical clinics, classes, music and dance groups, sports teams, and social clubs. The Guadalupe Center Collection contains scrapbooks, photographs, programs, histories, and records that document an early period of the organization’s activities.
Date: 1918/1977
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Guadalupe Center
Description: Four women standing outside working on some kind of project. A child is sitting on the ground in front of them. Duplicate of Photo #74 (10029874).
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Guadalupe Center
Description: Four women standing outside working on some kind of project. A child is sitting on the ground in front of them. The woman on the right is identified as Mary J. Burke. Duplicate of Photo #54 (10029854).
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Guadalupe Center
Description: Photograph of a group of girls working on a project. A woman is helping some of them.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Guadalupe Center
Description: Four men in a field. Several of them have sythes. The caption reads, "First work for play ground, 1926."
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Guadalupe Center
Description: A group of girls and women working on a project outside at a park or camp.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: She's Retired, But Not Resting
Description: Article on former director of social services for Children's Mercy Hospital, Alice Kitchen. Kitchen began volunteering at the Guadalupe Center in the 1950s as a teenager, and the experience prompted her to pursue a career in social work. She spent 20 years at Children's Mercy raising funds and organizing programs to assist both children and their parents. Since retiring in 2009, Kitchen has made two human rights observation trips to Honduras as a member of an international activist organization.
Date: 2012-07-01
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: France After World War II
Description: A church and buildings in what is likely Countances, France. After retiring as director of the Guadalupe Center, Dorothy Gallagher spent a year working for the American Relief for France organization and was based in Countances. The photograph was found loose within Album 3.
Date: 1946~
Object Type: Photograph

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