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Title: KC @ 150--Lasting Legacies: 135 More
Description: Biographical sketch of Thomas Unthank (1866-1932), founder of hospitals for minorities, including "Douglass Hospital in Kansas City, Kan., the first black hospital west of the Mississippi River" and involved with the founding of General Hospital Number 2.
Date: 2000-05-21
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Highland Cemetery
Description: View of grave marker in Highland Cemetery for Dr. Thomas Unthank (1866-1932). Cemetery is located on the west side of Blue Ridge Boulevard between 19th to 21st streets in Independence, Missouri, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. Several noted African Americans are buried here. Dr. Unthank opened Lange Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and co-founded, with Dr. S. H. Thompson, Douglass Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. Both were African American hospitals.
Date: 2007-04-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Dr. Thomas Conard Unthank
Description: Biography and photo of physician Thomas C. Unthank, "The 'Father' of Kansas City's Negro Hospital". In addition to the Colored Division of General Hospital, he was involved in the founding of the Douglas Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, Lange and Wheatley Provident Hospitals.
Date: 1932-10-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: African-Americans in Medicine: Thomas C. Unthank, M. D.--A Flood, a Dream, a Hospital
Description: Biographical article about Dr. Thomas Unthank (1866-1932), a black physician "known as the 'father of Kansas City's Negro hospitals.'" Native of North Carolina coming to Kansas City in 1898 as the founder of the Douglass Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas and later founding the General Hospital Number 2 during the 1903 flood.
Date: 1996
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City General Hospital No. 2
Description: Article about black people being denied hospitalization because of their race.
Date: 1997
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: History of Kansas City General Hospital Colored Division
Description: Article contains a history and chronology of General Hospital #2, the City's first separate facility for African-Americans. It was established in 1908 after the "Old Building" of General Hospital was vacated. Numerous photographs of interior and exterior are included.
Date: 1932-10-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Early African American Physicians in Kansas City
Description: Prominent African American physicians listed under the heading of "Medical Leadership: Protecting the Race" in Chapter 3 include: Thomas C. Unthank, John E. Perry, D. Madison Miller, and Howard Smith. Biographical information is given on them as well as their importance to the African American community.
Date: 2006
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Kansas City General Hospital No. 2
Description: 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.
Date: 1962-09-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

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