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Title
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P34-1 Kansas City Health Care Photograph Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This photograph collection contains 198 black and white photographs taken in the 1940s-1950s. The images are of health care facilities and services maintained by the Kansas City Health Department. Includes General Hospital Nos. 1 and 2, the TB Hospital in the Leeds area, nursing program, etc. The collection was acquired from the Kansas City Landmarks Commission.
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Date
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1940~/1959~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Neglected History Sought
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Description
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Article announces that documentary filmmaker Kevin Wilmott and historians Deborah Dandridge and Tanya Hart are beginning work on a film focusing upon healthcare provided to African Americans living in Kansas City during the Jim Crow era. Wilmott is interviewed and provides a brief history of the city's General Hospitals No. 1 and No. 2. Former employees and patients of the city's segregated hospital are interviewed and describe their unequal treatment and conditions of the facility.
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Date
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2013-03-10
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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African American Care Givers
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Description
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Interior view, appears to be a hospital room. Includes two unidentified, adult African American care givers tending to an African American child in a crib. Location probably General Hospital No.2, the city hospital located near downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Photograph
