Admiring a new heart-lung machine
Marion Kreamer (left) with young white girl cardiac patient and two unidentified white women standing with Doctor Thomas Holder (right) around a new heart-lung machine on the floor.
Around a portrait of Katharine Richardson
Mr. Stockwell holding a young unidentified white girl patient; Dr. Herbert Miller; Mrs. Marshall; Mrs. Dietz; Mrs. Hoover. All are standing or seated around a portrait of hospital founder Dr...
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...
Boy feeding another boy at the table
African American toddler boy being fed by a white toddler boy while seated at a table. Photo is part of the United Way Effort at Children's Mercy Hospital.
Boy getting his teeth x-rayed
Young white boy seated in a chair while an unidentified white male orderly places an x-ray machine by his jaw as another white male orderly looks on. Other equipment is seen around the room.
Boys in physical therapy
Three young physical therapy patients (all white boys) working on the parallel bars at the same time. Each child is a bit older than the last.
Boys working with string in the ward
Three white boys working at occupational therapy with string. Two are seated on hospital beds and the boy in the middle is on a chair.
Century Club members
Century Club members with young patient (all white), the adopted daughter of Ruth Roy, Children's Mercy Hospital's payroll clerk. The woman on the left of Patty Roy holding the donation can is...
Check giving ceremony
Mrs. Nourse receiving a check from an unnamed organization from Clinton, Missouri in the southwest corner of the lobby. Two white men are on the right of the photo, one in a winter coat, and three...
Children and nurses outside on the sun porch
Group of patients (white girls and boys) out on the third floor sun porch with four white female nurses. Some of the children are sitting on a hospital bed and others are in wheelchairs or with...
Children in the hospital classroom
Unidentified white female teacher standing at a piano in the hospital's classroom with children (all white girls and boys) lined up in a semi-circle for the photograph. Some children are in...
Children outside on the sun porch
Group of patients (white girls and boys) out on the third floor sun porch. Some of the children are sitting on a hospital bed and others are in wheelchairs or with crutches. One boy is looking down...
Children outside on the sun porch
Group of patients (white girls and boys) out on the third floor sun porch. Some of the children are sitting on a hospital bed and others are in wheelchairs or with crutches.
Children receiving dental care
Children (white) receiving dental care at the hospital's Dental Clinic. Left to right, dental student Crutchfield; back view of Dr. Sosnet, Dr. Padgham with patient in the chair, Phyllis Henderson...
Christmas party at Children's Mercy Hospital
Children (all white girls and boys), some in wheelchairs, at a Hallmark Christmas party for Children's Mercy Hospital patients. Christmas decorations are on display on the table at the left with a...
Classroom arts and crafts time
The Musettes (Mrs. Morton Jones and Mrs. Walter McCardy) handing out art supplies and other items to student patients (all white girls and boys) in the classroom at Children's Mercy Hospital...
Counting pennies
Five white boys and one white girl around a table counting pennies from a penny bank sitting on the table. Additional children (white) in the background.
Crowded outpatient clinic
Large group of African American and white women and children waiting in the outpatient clinic. Pay phone and vending machine seen at the back of the room.
David Morgan's children at Christmas
Children of David Morgan (two girls and two boys) sitting and standing at the foot of a stairwell. The oldest girl is holding a book called "The Animals' Merry Christmas" open as if reading to the...
Dinner event in Nurse Hall
Margaret Weaver (left) standing up from her table during a dinner event being held in Nurse Hall. Projection screen behind the attendees (all white women and men), many of whom are looking over at the...
Dinner event in Nurse Hall
Children's Mercy Hospital dinner event being held in Nurse Hall Lounge. An unidentified white male doctor is speaking the attendees (all white women and men). Tables are covered in dishes with half...
Dinner event in Nurse Hall
Children's Mercy Hospital dinner event being held in Nurse Hall Lounge. Dr. Harsh is standing to the left of a projection screen in the right side of the photo in front of the diners (all white women...
Doctors and nurses in a cafeteria line
Doctors (white men) and nurses (white women) in line at the cafeteria during a staff conference.
Dolores Turnage with patients
Dolores Turnage, RN, standing in a ward of hospital beds with three white children. Two of the children are on the bed in front of her. One is seated and holding a toy, the other is standing and being...