Young African American girl receiving an eye exam from an unidentified white male optometrist. She's wearing a measuring device and is seated next to a cabinet of various lenses. Her coin purse is in...
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...
Unidentified pre-teen white girl with unidentified older white woman in glasses standing behind her to the left. Possibly the girl's mother.
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.
Head table during a luncheon given by the Mercy Hospital Governing Board in honor of Mercy connected Women's Clubs. Seated left to right: Mrs. H.R. Barrow, Charles D. Swint, Mrs. I.D. Pearce, Herman...
Governor Hearnes standing just outside of a tent and about to shake hands with an unidentified white man. Another unidentified white man is standing beside Hearnes with his hand out as well. A large...
Governor Hearnes standing with his back to the camera and standing beside a car with an open door near a tent at the dedication ceremony for the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. Hearnes is...
Governor Hearnes standing with his back to the camera and standing beside a car near a tent at the dedication ceremony for the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. Hearnes is shaking hands with an...
Governor Warren Hearnes speaking at a podium during the dedication ceremony for the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. Seated behind Hearnes in the first row, left side, are Herman Sutherland...
Governor Warren Hearnes speaking at a podium during the dedication ceremony for the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. Seated behind Hearnes on the left side of podium are (right to left), Herman...
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...
Herman Sutherland (left) speaking with Governor Warren Hearnes during the Governor's visit to the hospital. Medical files are stored along one wall and the Governor is holding a coffee cup with a...
Governor Warren Hearnes (second from left) speaking with Herman Sutherland (left) and Dr. Ned Smull (right) during the Governor's visit to the hospital. Behind the group is an unidentified white...
Nurse McGoffin seated outside the X-Ray department holding a young African American patient and chatting with Governor Warren Hearnes (standing) during a visit by the Governor to Children's Mercy...
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...
Grand Champion Steer of the American Royal, Boxer, being led by Lyle Miller. At the far left behind the steer is Judge Phillips with Mrs. Miller (center). The steer is black and has his ribbons on his...
Ten people (white men and women) lined up with shovels as part of the groundbreaking ceremony for the new hospital building. Included are Herman Sutherland far left, and Dr. Ned Smull, fifth from the...
Unidentified people (one African American man, one African American woman, the rest white women and a white man) gathered around a table, holding up certificates at what appears to be a staff...
Group luncheon attended by hospital staff and administration (all white women and men). People are seated at several tables and all are looking up and over at the photographer. A uniformed nurse is...
Endocrinology learning or support group seated around a table. Left to right, Norman Scott and his son; Kathy Scott; Becky Flurry and her son; Pam Reichardt and her daughter; Stephanie; and Joyce at...
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...
Four boys (one African American, one white) and one white girl gathered together for a photo in one of the wards. The boy at the right of the photo is in a wheelchair.
Group photo of white boys, some sitting, some standing, all centered around a boy lying on a cot on the ground on the edge of a depressed slum-like area of the city.
Group of boys (two are African America, the rest white) and one white girl standing around in the back of a tenement area with laundry hanging from various buildings in the background.
Group of young patients (all white girls and boys) out on the lawn, in the area of the Children's Mercy Hospital stadium steps. Some patients are seated in hospital carts and some are seated on a...
