Unused Homer G Phillips Hospital For Colored Vintage Postcard St Louis MO-4 USA

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Unused Homer G Phillips Hospital For Colored Vintage Postcard St Louis MO-4 USA:
$3.99

Unused Homer G Phillips Hospital For Colored Vintage Postcard St Louis MO-4 USAVintage postcard.
Front has color print of hospital building with caption: \"Homer G. Phillips Hospital (For Colored), St. Louis, Mo.-4.\"
Back is divided and contains a paragraph describing the hospital:
The Homer G. Phillips Hospital is devoted exclusively to the treatment of indigent colored sick and injured. Total bed capacity 685. The hosptial consists of five main buildings: Service building, Administration Building, North Ward Building, South Ward Building, Nurses\' Home and Training School, with attached apartments for the Medical Director and Superintendent. Cost $3,100,000; area occupied, about 4-1/2 acres.
Manufacturers marks: \"Pub. by St. Louis Greeting Card Co., St. Louis, Mo.\" and \"Natural Color Post Card Made in U.S.A. by E. C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, Wis.-(LKY).\"
Postage corner contains \"E. C. K. Co.\" Logo.
Research indicates the hospital served African-Americans exclusively from 1937 until desegregation in 1955. It closed as a full-service hospital in 1979, and re-opened as senior-living apartments in 2003. The building is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
The postcard has light stains and scratches, and has light wear on edges. There are numbers written in pencil near the stamp block.
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