File containing photos and information on Dr. Samuel Rodgers (1917-1999), an African American "Kansas City doctor and community health leader." Native of Alabama coming here about 1946 as…

File containing a pamphlet on health maintenance by Dr. R. A. Richardson, a physician and publisher in the Shukert Building.

Brief biographical sketch of physician Dr. Jacob Block, "formerly professor of genito-urinary diseases at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, Rosedale [part of Kansas City, Kansas]; at…

File containis an issue of the "Masters in Dermatology" journal devoted to Dr. Richard Lightburn Sutton, Jr., or Richard Sutton, Jr., a dermatological physician and writer. Born in Kansas…

File contains copies of a 9-page, typed history of African American doctors in Kansas City, written by Dr. T. C. Unthank in 1935. A note on the first page lists Dr. J. M. Brown as Kansas City's…

Illustration and information on Dr. Katharine Berry Richardson, or Katharine Richardson (1858-1933), an early local woman physician and co-founder of Children's Hospital with her sister with…

File containing a photo and information on Dr. John Edward Perry, or J. Edward Perry (1870-1962), a pioneer African American physician in Kansas City. Native of Texas coming here in 1903 as builder…

Photos and information on the 1955 anti-trust suit against the Kansas City Star newspaper.

Information on the history of health care provision and facilities in Kansas City, including hospitals and doctors, etc.

Brief biographical sketch of physician "George William Bock [or Dr. George Bock], St. Louis; St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1886; aged 84; died July 22, in the Lutheran Hospital…

History of the Kansas City Star newspaper.

Vertical file containing multiple articles from The Call about Dr. A. Porter Davis, an African American physician in Kansas City, Kansas. Davis was elected president of the National Medical…

Biographical materials about fashion designer and illustrator Edna Marie Dunn who worked for the Kansas City Star from 1914 to 1965.

Facsimile of the Star Copy Style, "one of the most often-requested pieces of memoribilia relating to the history of the Kansas City Star." This style sheet is credited with shapig the…

Vertical file with photo and caption about Dr. L.S. Daigle, an African American physician "selected as the Paseo Y.M.C.A. 'Father of the Year.'" Dr. Daigle was father of two sons…

File containing a pamphlet (reprinted from the Jackson County Medical Journal of December 5, 1931) with photo and information on Dr. Caleb Ritter, a physician and medical school teacher coming to…

File containing a photocopy of the family chart of Dr. William Warren Harris, or William Harris.

Photos and information on Dr. Katharine Berry Richardson, or Katharine Richardson (ca. 1860-1933), a native of Kentucky and co-founder of Mercy Hospital (later called Children's Mercy Hospital)…

File containing a photo and obituary for Dr. Martin Brookins, an African American eye, ear, nose, and throat physician in Kansas City for 40 years, dying in 1949. He was a native of Macon, Missouri…

Excerpt of a brief biographical sketch of Dr. A. L. Berger, a professor of obstetrics and secretary of faculty at "University Medical College, Kansas City, Mo.," dying on July 8, 1897.

Information on Jotham Meeker (1804-1855), a missionary and printer native to Ohio and moving to the Shawnee Mission in Kansas Territory in 1833 as an Indian linguist. Also a duplicate of the…

File containing a pamphlet or booklet about Dr. Flavel Tiffany (1846-1918), a physician, medical author, native of New York, and founder of "one of Kansas City's pioneer medical schools,…

Information on Dr. Benoist Troost (1786-1859), the first physician in Kansas City (or one of the first without a medical degree). Native of The Netherlands, emigrating to Westport in 1847 and…

Description of Dr. Robert Schauffler as "an orthopedic doctor" and one of the first local physicians to work at Children's Mercy Hospital.