Audience for the Katherine B. Richardson Elementary School dedication
View of the audience (African American and white men and women) for the Katherine B. Richardson Elementary School dedication. Second row includes John Stockwell, Mrs. Koerper, and Margaret Weaver.
Awarding door prizes
Door prizes being given out at the Maywood Mercy Club Annual Bazaar at the Jewish Community Center. Mrs. Max Doehlerm Jr., club president, is in front of a microphone with another unidentified white...
Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Anna Allen
Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Anna Allen [Anderson] with a group of young patients (all white). Babe Ruth is standing on the right and is shaking hands with Allen [Anderson]. He is wearing a suit and tie...
Balladiers performing at the Service Awards dinner
Three young white men, The Balladiers, performing at the Service Awards dinner. One is playing the guitar while all sing. The audience (African American man, white women and men) is seen all around...
Ballerina dancing for the Christmas party
White ballerina dancing on her toes with hands above her head for the audience (African American and white children, white women and men, African American women) during the Christmas party.
Bandaged patient with nurse
African American boy patient lying in his hospital bed on his side with the middle portion of his body wrapped in bandages, playing with toy truck. An unidentified older white woman is beside his bed...
Bandaged patient with nurse
Bandaged white boy patient with stitches in his leg with nurse Barbara Toombs-Tyson during the United Way Campaign.
Barrett Hedden and Dr. Ned Smull
Barrett Hedden shaking hands with Dr. Ned Smull during an open house for the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. A plaque is on the wall behind Dr. Smull.
Baseman during a softball game
Unidentified white male baseman and three other players, including an African American woman and a white woman, standing in the field during a softball game.
Batter up during a softball game
Unidentified white male batter at home plate ready to swing with a female catcher behind him during a softball game. She seems to be wearing a baby's bonnet and dark mask of some sort, for some reason...
Bendix employees at the hospital's entrance
Group of unidentified white male and female Bendix employees at the entrance of Children's Mercy Hospital Clinic and Emergency Room preparing for a United Campaign tour of the hospital.
Bendix employees visiting a boy in traction
Two unidentified white women with the Bendix Corporation visiting with a white boy patient with his leg in traction. They are there as part of a United Campaign tour of the hospital.
Bendix employees visiting a patient eating lunch
Two unidentified white men with the Bendix Corporation visiting with an African American boy patient eating lunch in his hospital bed. They are there as part of a United Campaign tour of the hospital.
Bill Kersten with boy patient
Bill Kersten, wrestling announcer, holding a white boy patient in one arm. The boy is smiling shyly.
Blind girls playing with a doll
Two young blind girls, both white, at Children's Mercy Hospital's Lucerne Ward. One is seated in a chair holding out her hands and another has her eyes wrapped and is sitting on the floor holding out...
Board members, nurses, physicians, and a patient
Board members, nurses, physicians, and a patient (all white) with KMBC radio journalists at Children's Mercy Hospital. They are sitting in a circle talking into a microphone. The young boy is sitting...
Board of Trustees from November 1960
Group photo of the Children's Mercy Hospital Board of Trustees seated around a table and looking forward at the camera. Shown left to right are: Richard B. Fowler, Perry E. Faeth, George L. Gordon...
Boarding the bus to the circus
Nurses (white women) getting onto a Kansas City Transit Bus after the children have been seated for a trip to the Shrine Circus. The African American male bus driver is standing to one side of the...
Bob Random signing autographs
Bob Random signing autographs for a white female nurse and two girl patients (one African American, the other white) The Iron Horse actor is standing on the left and looking down next to nurse Diane...
Bob Random talking with Christopher Johnston
Bob Random, actor on The Iron Horse, talking with Christopher Johnston, Associate Director for Administrative Affairs, next to a large founder's plaque in Children's Mercy Hospital.
Bob Random visiting a young patient
Bob Random visiting a young white boy patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. The Iron Horse actor is looking down at the boy in bed who is holding a prop long barreled pistol at Random. Nurse Pat Wyatt...
Bob Random visiting a young patient
Bob Random visiting a young white boy patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. The Iron Horse actor is holding a pistol and smiling while talking with nurse Pat Wyatt (African American) and the boy...
Bob Random visiting two young patients
Bob Random visiting two young patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. The Iron Horse actor is standing between the two boys (African American and white). The white boy on the left is standing with...
Bob Random visiting young patients
Bob Random visiting with young patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. The Iron Horse actor is standing on the right and looking down at patient Yolanda Montgomery (African American) who is holding a...
Bobbi Johnson and Charles O. Finley visiting a patient
Bobbi Johnson, Miss USA, and Kansas City Athletics owner Charles O. Finley delivering a souvenir megaphone to white boy patient with bandages on his torso lying down in a hospital bed. They are...