Santa Claus with child patients
Santa Claus (white) leaning down to speak with child patients (all white) at the Mayor's Christmas Tree Party. Santa is holding a cup and sleigh bells. The children are sitting in wheelchairs. Other...
Santa handing out gifts
Santa Claus (white man) visiting patients and passing out Christmas presents to a group (African American girls and boys) seated before him. Other adults (African American women, African American man...
Sarah Wright with toddler
Sarah Wright, nurse, holding a young, crying, African American girl toddler up.
Selected award tea participants
Doris Clark Graddy, Margaret Weaver, John Stockwell, Mintie Carnahan, and Ethel Vaughn all posing together for a photo from behind a table during the Service Awards Tea. All the women have corsages.
Service award pin recipients
Employees receiving Children's Mercy Hospital Service award pins. Left to right are Geraldine Mathis, Sarah Wright, Edna Russel, Dr. Ruth Yohe, and Grace Barr.
Service award pin recipients
Employees receiving Children's Mercy Hospital Service award pins. Left to right are Ray Wilson, Ella Woods, Grace Barr, and Betty Sherman. The African American woman at the far right is unidentified.
Service award pin recipients
Employees receiving Children's Mercy Hospital Service award pins. Left to right are Fred Atkisson, Essie Grant, Leota Willet, Geraldine Mathis, and Hester Kienzie.
Service award recipients at Nurse Hall
Alice Walker, seated and pouring tea at a table with her back to the camera during a service award ceremony in Nurse Hall. Award recipients (African American and white women and men) are standing in a...
Snoopy dressed as the Red Baron with child patients
Snoopy dressed as his Red Baron character interacting with child patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. The white boy in the center is wearing a body brace and football helmet while being held by a...
Tap dancer entertaining at the Christmas party
Unidentified white woman tap dancer in a fake beard entertaining the audience (African American and white children and women) at the Christmas party for the patients.
Team captains of winning United Way drive teams
Team Captains of the winning teams in the 1965 United Campaign drive at Children's Mercy Hospital holding banners. Left to right are Daisy Caldwell, Marie Bridgewater, and Beatrice Hedge. Bridgewater...
Tex Chambers performing with his trained dog
Tex Chambers performing with his trained dog Zest. Chambers is standing next to a platform with his dog. Zest is bowing his head forward. They are in front of a group of boy and girl patients at...
Three women at a reception table
Two unidentified African American women standing at a reception table serving refreshments. An unidentified white woman with her back to the camera is on the other side of the table.
Tuffie the baby elephant
Tuffie the baby elephant and her white male handler visiting Children's Mercy Hospital. An unidentified white female nurse is watching as a white man hands a photo to someone seated and out of the...
Two women in a testing lab
Two unidentified female lab technicians (one white, one African American) working in a hospital testing lab. The white woman at the left is seen from the side working with lab equipment. The African...
Unknown man examining a woman's foot
Unidentified white man in old fashioned clothing (left) bent over the outstretched leg of an unidentified African American woman (nurse or doctor) and examining her foot. Medical equipment is all...
Unloading a crib from an ambulance
White male photographer seen taking a close-up photo of a crib with medical equipment in it being unloaded from a Red Cross ambulance by an African American woman nurse and three white men outside the...
Unloading children and equipment
Nurses (African American and white women) and white male doctors help unload patients, wheelchairs, linens, and oxygen tanks from the hospital van during the move to the new hospital on Gillham Road.
View of attendees of a hospital Christmas party
Children's Mercy Hospital main lobby filled with patients and various adults and decorated with streamers on the ceiling and other Christmas decorations being entertained by an unidentified white...
View of attendees of a hospital Christmas party
Children's Mercy Hospital ward decorated with streamers on the ceiling and filled with patients, nurses, and other adults participating in a Christmas party. One white boy in striped pants is seated...
Volunteers and adults by a hospital information desk
Group of white female Junior Volunteers hanging around a hospital Information desk with refreshments. An African American woman is standing by the desk next to two of the volunteers and two other...
Volunteers during the Hospital Hill Run
Volunteers working various water stations during the Hospital Hill Run. In the foreground is a group of five volunteers (two white women, a white girl, an African American woman, and a partially seen...
Walking toward the entrance of the Katherine B. Richardson Elementary School
African American woman holding young African American child's hand as they walk toward the entrance of the Katherine B. Richardson Elementary School for the dedication ceremony. Seen from behind.
Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore entertaining a group of children
Winnie the Pooh, with his back to the camera and a Hunny pot on his head, and Eeyore entertaining patients and adults in a ward at Children's Mercy Hospital. A white man (partially seen) at the back...
Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore entertaining a group of children
Winnie the Pooh, with his back to the camera and a Hunny pot on his head, and Eeyore entertaining patients and adults in a ward at Children's Mercy Hospital. A white man at the back of the room in a...