Girl receiving a sweater at Christmas
Teenaged white girl sitting up in a hospital bed and opening a gift of a sweater on Christmas morning. She's looking forward at the unseen person who gave it to her. Two dolls are on the empty bed...
Girl seated with a doll
Young white girl sitting, dressed, in a hospital bed with her legs crossed and holding a large doll. Directly facing the camera.
Girl swinging a sock monkey around
Young white girl patient standing up in a playpen and swinging a sock monkey around. The arm and hand of an unidentified white woman is seen reaching toward the girl from the right of the photo. An...
Girl with a piggy bank
Young white girl sitting up in her hospital bed wearing a hospital gown and holding a handmade piggy bank fashioned from an old bleach bottle.
Girl with doll in bed
Young African American girl lying in a hospital bed with her arm around her doll.
Girls sewing together
White girl patient's in a hand sewing class at the sitting together and sewing. Two girls are in wheelchairs and the rest seated on hospital beds.
Governor Hearnes visiting a young patient
Governor Warren Hearnes visiting a young white male patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. Hearnes is reading from a book called Bedtime Stories and is smiling. The boy is laying on a bed and is...
Governor Warren Hearnes visiting a patient in bed
Governor Warren Hearnes leaning over the hospital bed of a young white boy patient while visiting the hospital. The boy has his hand raised and touching the governor's head. Patient's back is mostly...
Group of adolescent girls at Easter
Group photo of nine white teenage girls; three sitting in the foreground wearing dresses and holding Easter baskets and a decorated egg (perhaps); six girls sitting on or around the hospital bed in...
Group of women and children in a ward
Group of nine children (African American and white girls and boys) and three adults and one nurse (all white women) in a hospital ward. Three children are sitting in a bed, two are standing, and three...
Group photo from the boys' ward
Group photo of nine white boys of varying ages in the boys' ward. Five are standing and the others are on hospital beds behind them.
Helping with a menu request
Nurse Christy Rochester, R.N., helping a four year old African American boy patient, seated on his hospital bed, to fill out his menu request form in the Hematology/Oncology Unit. They boy has the...
Helping with homework
Red Cross volunteer (older white woman) helping a white teenaged boy in a hospital bed with his homework. He's using the bed tray for a table.
Hospital beds and other equipment ready to be moved
Hospital beds stripped of linens with a wheelchair and other items folded on bed in preparation for the move to new Children's Mercy Hospital building.
Jack Steadman visiting a patient with Herman Sutherland
Jack Steadman (right), general manager of the Kansas City Chiefs presenting an autographed football to an African American boy patient. Herman Sutherland, president of the Central Governing Board of...
Jeanette Rafinder talking to a mother and physician
Jeanette Rafinder, Red Cross Volunteer-Patient Representative, with a clipboard making her rounds as she talks with a white patient's mother on the right, and a white male doctor on the left. All are...
Junior League volunteer reading to a patient
Linda Kline, Junior League Volunteer, reading "New at the Zoo" to an African American boy patient in his hospital bed. His leg is in a cast and in traction. He appears to be enjoying the book.
Junior League volunteer reading to a patient
Linda Kline, Junior League Volunteer, reading "New at the Zoo" to an African American boy patient in his hospital bed. His leg is in a cast and in traction. He appears to be enjoying the book. More...
Junior Volunteer working on a craft project
Unidentified white female Junior Volunteer bending over a table where she is gluing some sort of craft project while an unidentified white woman and young white boy (presumably her son) watch. A group...
Katherine Wilson instructing young patients
Katherine Wilson instructing young patients (all white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Wilson, the principal of the hospital school, is working with patients unable to travel to the classroom. She is...
Katherine Wilson with a patient
Katherine Wilson working with a young white boy patient. Wilson, the principal of the hospital school, is holding a book above a boy laying on a bed. They are both smiling and he appears to be reading...
Ken Curtis talking with a boy
Ken Curtis talking with a white boy on a hospital bed in Children's Mercy Hospital. Curtis is dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke. He is leaning forward and looking down at the boy in the bed...
Ken Curtis talking with a boy
Ken Curtis signing an autograph for an African American boy patient on a surgical bed. Curtis is dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke. The boy is sitting up and is smiling. Two unidentified...
Ken Curtis visiting a child at his hospital bed
Ken Curtis dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke talking to an African American boy patient lying in his hospital bed.
Laughing boy on a hospital bed
Smiling young white boy in a striped shirt kneeling on a hospital bed or gurney. He's holding something in his hands.