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Final Editing by Katherine A Kellock of the project's Washington Office. Bright Blue fabricod with lettering stamped in gilt; 8vo; 8.25 inches tall; 229 pages with an index and list of illustrations. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even age-toning. Minimal shelf handling wear with an address label on the verso of the front-free-endpage and a pencil name and address on the endpage. The Mylar protected dust jacket has no price as issued is lightly handled, with minor extremity loss and a modestly sunned spine. A handsome copy. An account of the pioneer men and women of the medical profession in Kansas and the public institutions. This history was assembled from first-hand diaries, letters, records and unpublished memoirs. Includes a chapter on two different days in a Kansas hospital from December 1, 1892 and 1944. Background Information: During the Great Depression of the 1930s thousands of writers were hired by the Works Project Administration to create hundreds of guidebooks on all of the states in the U.S. These volumes that were produced became known as the American Guide Series. This series has been described as the biggest, fastest and most original research job in the history of the world. Ref: Scharf & Schoyer, #200
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