Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection

Promotional booklet published by the Willows Maternity Home. From the inside cover: "A sociological analysis of the patients cared for by the Willows Maternity Sanitarium covering the ten-year period, 1927 t0 1936 inclusive.

Books (Historical KC Texts), Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection

Promotional booklet for the Willows Maternity Home directed at physicians. The front cover reads: "Explaining to our physician patrons some of the refinements in our plans for the protecting of their unfortunate patients."

Books (Historical KC Texts), Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection

Portrait of Willows Maternity Home nurse Florence Beal Bolter holding a baby.

Promotional booklet for the Willows Maternity Home. From the inside cover: "Facts brought to life through a sociological analysis of the patients seeking seclusion at the Willows Maternity Sanitarium."

Books (Historical KC Texts), Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection

Promotional booklet for the Willows Maternity Home, once located at 2929 Main Street. The booklet features a text introduction to the hospital and its operations and photographs of workspaces, nurses, staff, and children born at the Willows.

Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection, Books (Historical KC Texts)

Promotional booklet published by the Willows Maternity Home explaining their services and fees for patients.

Books (Historical KC Texts), Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection

Copy of the May-June 1916 issue of The Willows Magazine published by the Willows Maternity Home. Descriptions of the hospital's mission, staff, operations, activities, and tips for adoptive parents are included. The magazine includes articles titled: A Short Description of the Services Offered by the Willows Maternity Sanitarium, Be Careful What You Say, Our Obligation to Childhood, Bad Habits Innocently Formed, Our Adopted Baby, Don'ts for Baby, Some Questions and Answers, New Grace Hospital, Nursey Maid Training Course, The Abortionist, News Items, Some Stories, Specialized Obstetric Training Course, Specialists in Obstetric and Infant Nursing, Want Ad Department, Strictly Ethical, and Preparing Baby's Food.

Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection, Books (Historical KC Texts)

Catalogue booklet providing an overview of the services offered at the Willows Maternity Home.

Books (Historical KC Texts), Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection

Promotional booklet published by the Willows Maternity Home. The cover page notes "As told by a mother - only a mother could have writ this. This is the first time we have had the case of an unfortunate girl presented from the angle of her mother. Good fortune gives us the presentation by an unusual and interesting mother. Very few people ever visualize a case as it comes from this woman's pen until it appears as a member of their own family. In fact, few people are even then so philosophic and reasoning, and yet withal so charitably loving to their erring daughters. Read this mother's story."

Books (Historical KC Texts), Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection

Promotional booklet published for the Willows Maternity Home. From the inside cover: "This booklet is a study of the resources of an unfortunate girl. The great questions that arise in more than ninety-five per cent of the cases are: To whom may she appeal to get the funds needed for getting her out of her trouble? What excuse shall she give for asking for money? (This if she has to get help from someone who does not and should not know of her trouble.) Under what pretext may she be absent from home and friends? These questions are answered in the light of almost a quarter century's experience and the care of five thousand higher grade unfortunates. Its suggestions should meet the needs of practically any better grade case that presents itself to the profession."

Books (Historical KC Texts), Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection

Two snapshots of a baby and a child born at the Willows Maternity Home. The two are standing on a bed near windows. From left to right, the names recorded beneath the left photograph are: Elsie and Billy.

Group of unidentified individuals, possibly staff members, posed at the Willows Maternity Home.

Two snapshots of a baby born at the Willows Maternity Home. The child is posed on a porch. A note recorded beneath the photograph reads: Clarence.

Two snapshots of an baby being weighed on a scale at the Willows Maternity Home. The scale is on a brick balcony. A note recorded beneath the photograph reads: Happy little Neal.

Snapshot of an baby born at the Willows Maternity Home. The baby is crawling near a highchair on a porch.

Snapshot of a baby being weighed on a scale at the Willows Maternity Home. The infant is posed on a porch. A note recorded above the photograph reads: Beth.

Portrait of a baby born at the Willows Maternity Hospital. Notes recorded around the photograph read: Born - Oct. 3 - 1917 - Harriet Ruth Eggelston.

Portrait of a baby born at the Willows Maternity Home. Notes recorded around the photograph read: Born - Mar. 6th - 1918 - Arlene Minerva Brown.

Two portraits of babies born at the Willows Maternity Home. The page is labeled with the date September 09, 1915, and the names Sheldon on the left and Ophia on the right.

An baby's stocking cap from the Willows Maternity Home.

Snapshot of two babies born at the Willows Maternity Home. The two are posed on a porch. A note recorded above the photograph reads: Billy and Elsie.

Two snapshots of a nurse and babies born at the Willows Maternity Home. In the left snapshot, a baby is posed near a floral arrangement. In the right snapshot a seated nurse holds a baby on a brick balcony. A note recorded beneath the right photograph reads: Melba.

Two snapshots of an unidentified mother holding a baby born at the Willows Maternity Home. The mother is seated on a brick balcony.

Snapshot of a nurse holding a baby born at the Willows Maternity Home. The two are posed outside a structure. A note recorded above the photograph reads: Miss Ashby and Royce.

Two snapshots of a nurse weighing a baby on a scale at the Willows Maternity Home. The two are on a brick balcony. A note recorded above the photograph reads: Mandelko and Neal. A note recorded beneath the photographs reads: [illegible] the scales - Ready for his bath.