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Title
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Waiting for Archie: The Adventures of a Therapy Dog
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Description
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A close-up look at Archie, a freckle-faced Brittany, and his role as a Therapy Dog with Kansas City organization Pets for Life that was founded in 1984 by husband and wife team William D. and Harriet M. Snyder. The article includes some history of the use of animals in therapy.
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Date
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2004
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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History of the KU School of Nursing, 1906-2006
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Description
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Overview of the development of KU School of Nursing accompanied with short entries called "Remarkable Firsts, Significant Achievements, and Interesting Facts: KU School of Nursing."
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Date
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2007
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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African Americans in Medicine
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Description
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Article about the founding of the Wheatley-Provident Hospital in 1908 by early black physician Dr. J. Edward Perry (or John Perry) with description of its history as an African American institution.
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Date
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1997
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Language of Incorporation of the University of Kansas School of Medicine
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Description
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Short overview of the history of the establishment of KU's medical college including the following paragraph from its incorporating documents dated April 21, 1905. ''Whereas the Chancellor of the University and the committee of the Regents having in charge questions affecting the School of Medicine of the University of Kansas, have made arrangements with the Kansas City Medical College and the Medico-Chirurgical College of Kansas City, Mo., and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Kansas City, Kansas, providing for the discontinuance of such schools and the taking over by the School of Medicine of the University of Kansas of all the students of such colleges on the certificate of their present standing in such colleges, and that the alumni of said colleges upon the certificates of proper authority be incorporated in and become a part of the alumni of the School of Medicine of the University of Kansas.''
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Date
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2001
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Object Type
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Newsletter Article
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Title
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Our Schools Must Be Open to All Classes of Citizens
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Description
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Article about blacks being denied admission to the medical school because of their race and Edward V. Williams's leadership in the cause for desegregation.
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Date
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1996
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Criminal Aspects of the Pendergast Machine
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Description
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Detailed examination of the Kansas City political machine of Tom Pendergast (starting with his older brother James Pendergast), "one of the most powerful city machines in United States history," from "the 1880s until the 1950s," with illustrations.
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Date
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1997-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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"A Brave and Gallant Company," A Kansas City Hospital in France During the First World War
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Description
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Article describes the U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 28 located in Limoges, France, from July 1918 until May 1919. Many of the hospital personnel were associated with the University of Kansas School of Medicine and were considered "competent and cabable far beyond what" was "typically imagined of First World War surgical and medical practitioners."
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Date
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2009
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
