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...
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 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 (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, 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...
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.
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...
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 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 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 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 dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke talking to an African American boy patient lying in his hospital bed.
Smiling young white boy in a striped shirt kneeling on a hospital bed or gurney. He's holding something in his hands.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Miss U.S.A., Bobbi Johnson, delivering Kansas City Athletics megaphoned to a young white girl patient lying in a hospital bed.
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.
