(MEDICINE) Fundraising prospectus for the New Union Hospital

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(MEDICINE.) Fundraising prospectus for the New Union Hospital in Houston. [4] pages, 8½ x 5¼ inches, on one folding sheet; horizontal mailing folds, light toning. Houston, TX: Yates Printing, 1 June 1923

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"The colored doctors saw the imperative need for a hospital five years ago . . . . The need for enlarged hospital facilities was so apparent that the people in mass meeting unanimously assembled decided and authorized the purchase . . . in the title and right of the colored citizens of Houston. . . . It has not been that the hospital facilities for the sick and suffering of our group could always be had. . . . We all see it as the nucleus of a great institution that can adequately meet the charitable needs of our people."

This prospectus features an exterior view of the hospital on the first page, and a three-page message to prospective donors including a financial summary. It was printed by the Yates Printing Company, the first Black-owned press in Houston, in the year after it was established.

This copy is inscribed on the front page with the name of Isaiah Milligan Terrell, who became the hospital's superintendent in 1923. The New Union Hospital served the people of Houston for five years, but was superceded by Houston Negro Hospital (now Riverside) in 1927.