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Laughing girl on a gurney

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White girl with long hair, lying on a gurney on her stomach but propped up on an elbow and laughing with one hand over her face. Two unidentified adults (African American man, white woman) to the side...

Date Published
1966-10-01
1966-10-31

Laughing nurse and patient

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Nurse Dorothy Wells standing by the bed an African American girl patient is sitting on before moving in the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. Both are laughing and Wells is looking into the...

Date Published
1970-12-17

Lena Dagley, Elmira Collins, and Mary Becker

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Lena Dagley, Executive Secretary of Children's Mercy Hospital; Elmira Collins, President of the Women's Chamber of Commerce; and Mary Becker, Chairman of the Women's Chamber of Commerce Birthday Fund...

Date Published
1948-06-30

Margaret Reeble with young patient

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Margaret Reeble, a female white nurse at Children's Mercy Hospital, looking over a young white male patient laying on a bed. A heart monitoring device is attached to the child's chest. Reeble is...

Date Published
1950-02-06

Marylane Thorne helping students study

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Teacher Marylane Thorne standing between two hospital beds helping the boys in them to do their lessons. The boy in front of Thorne is African American, and the boy behind is white with eyeglasses...

Date Published
1961
1970

Members of the Kansas City Athletics visiting a patient

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Members of the Kansas City Athletics baseball team (all white men) visiting a white boy patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. Gus Nichols, Jim Walker, Dan Pfister, Jim Archer, and Wayne Causey are...

Date Published
1962-08-01
1962-08-31

Members of the Kiwanis Club presenting a check

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Eight members (all white) of the Kiwanis Club from Clinton, Missouri, presenting a check to Lena Dagley at Children's Mercy Hospital. They are standing in a room on the fourth floor with two young...

Date Published
1941
1950

Members of the Young Americans Choir

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Members of the Young Americans Choir singing in a hospital room at Children's Mercy Hospital. The choir members (men and women, all white except for one African American man leaning against the end of...

Date Published
1966
1968

Members of the Young Americans Choir

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Members of the Young Americans Choir singing in a hospital room at Children's Mercy Hospital. The choir members (men and women, all white except for one African American man) are standing around a...

Date Published
1966
1968

Members of the Young Americans Choir

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Members of the Young Americans Choir singing in a hospital room at Children's Mercy Hospital. The choir members (men and women, all white except for one African American man) are standing around a...

Date Published
1966
1968

Miss U.S.A visits a patient

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Miss U.S.A., Bobbi Johnson, delivering Kansas City Athletics megaphoned to a young white girl patient lying in a hospital bed.

Date Published
1965-01-01
1965-12-31

Miss U.S.A visits a patient

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Miss U.S.A., Bobbi Johnson, delivering Kansas City Athletics megaphones to a young white boy in sitting up in a hospital bed with leg and arm injuries. Both looking over at the camera and smiling.

Date Published
1965-01-01
1965-12-31

Miss U.S.A visits a patient

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Miss U.S.A., Bobbi Johnson, delivering Kansas City Athletics megaphones to patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. She's stopped at the bed of a white teenage boy who is smiling up at her. She's...

Date Published
1965-01-01
1965-12-31

Moving a patient in a gurney

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A white male doctor and two white male ambulance drivers moving a covered up patient on a gurney into an elevator as others (white women) watch from the side. Patient is being moved into the new...

Date Published
1970-12-17

Moving in a child in a wheelchair

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Two white female nurses moving an African American girl cardiac patient in a wheelchair out of the old building to be brought to the new Children's Mercy Hospital building on moving day. Two white...

Date Published
1970-12-17

Mr. and Mrs. Claus visiting patients

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Santa Claus & Mrs. Claus (both white) with accordion visiting a white patient in one of the hospital wards. An unidentified white woman next to Santa and an unidentified white male clown next to Mrs...

Date Published
1966-12-01
1966-12-31

Music class

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Children's Mercy Hospital patients (white and African American girls and boys) seated in a classroom, all in wheelchairs and hospital beds, for music time. Most patients are holding some sort of...

Date Published
1951
1960

Nate Williams with a young male patient

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Nate Williams, basketball player for the KC Kings, interacting with a young white boy patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. Williams is holding the boy's hand and is looking down while smiling. The...

Date Published
1974-03-01
1974-03-31

Nurse and boy with an Easter basket

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White female student nurse standing next to the hospital bed of a small white boy holding an Easter Basket. The boy is looking up at the camera.

Date Published
1967-03-01
1967-03-31

Nurse checking on a patient

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Young white boy patient sitting up in a hospital bed shirtless and wearing an oxygen mask and one arm bandaged. Unidentified white female nurse is standing by his bed with one hand on the respiratory...

Date Published
1981
1990

Nurse playing with baby on the floor

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Young white woman with hospital name tag (likely a nurse) lying on the floor playing with a white girl toddler. They're playing with some sort of interlocking objects and the girl is holding a pair of...

Date Published
1989-06-26

Nurse playing with baby on the floor

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Young white woman with hospital name tag (likely a nurse) lying on the floor playing with a white girl toddler. They're playing with some sort of interlocking objects. A bed is in the background.

Date Published
1989-06-26

Nurse putting a child's legs into traction

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Young white toddler lying in a hospital bed with its legs straight up in the air while a white female nurse puts them into traction. The child is looking over at the camera.

Date Published
1941
1950