Children at lessons
Children (all white girls and boys) of varying ages seated at desks in the hospital's classroom reading or doing other work. The white female teacher is seated at a desk behind an upright piano. A...
Crowd around the boar statue on the Plaza
Crowd of men, women, boys, and girls (all white) around the Children's Mercy Hospital boar statue on the Country Club Plaza. Many appear to be wearing Sunday clothes, including the boys. Three women...
Dedication of the bronze boar fountain
Officials and children (all white) gathered around the bronze boar fountain on the Country Club Plaza during its third dedication for Children's Mercy Hospital, including Miller Nichols (2nd from left...
Dr. Katharine Richardson and Lena Dagley
Dr. Katharine Richardson and Lena Dagley working in an office at 121 Clinton Place at Children's Mercy Hospital. Richardson is sitting at a desk in the back while her secretary, Dagley, stands looking...
Eric Jones with Elizabeth Martin
Eric Jones (left) seated with Elizabeth Martin (right) in front of a desk during the open house for the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. A replica of the Children's Mercy Hospital's Boar...
Group of children visiting the hospital
Mrs. Margaret Pierce and a group of children (all white girls and boys) from the Independence Boulevard Christian Church visiting the hospital. The children are looking at, and two touching, a statue...
Kids with plastic Santas
Group of boys (white) and girls (two white and an African American girl in a wheelchair) in a circle around two identical facing plastic Santa statues. One boy is looking directly at the camera and...
Miller Nichols in front of the bronze boar fountain
Miller Nichols standing in front of a microphone in facing the bronze boar fountain on the Country Club Plaza. Photo taken from beside the fountain and other buildings and cars in the street can be...
Miller Nichols, Herman Sutherland, and Ned Smull with boar statue replica
Miller Nichols (left), Herman Sutherland (center), and Ned Smull (right) standing behind a replica of the boar statue that's on the Country Club Plaza during a WDAF sponsored event. A glittering sign...
Nurses and children in front of the bronze boar fountain
Six white female nurses with five children (three white girls, one white boy, one African American boy) gathered in front of the bronze boar statue on the Country Club Plaza. One nurse is holding a...
Santa Claus handing out presents to children
Large group of patients (African American and white) sitting on the steps in the lobby area of Children's Mercy Hospital while Santa (white) hands out presents. The girl standing on right has on a...
Teen boy playing miniature golf
Unidentified white teenaged boy in a novelty t-shirt holding a miniature golf club during a hospital event honoring their teen volunteers. He's standing next to a statue of a boy in cap and jacket...
Terry McGovern, Harry McCray, and Lawrence McAndrews
Terry McGovern (left), Harry McCray (center) of the governing board, and Lawrence McAndrews (right), Children's Mercy Hospital President, standing in front of the Boar Statue at Children's Mercy...
Three children on a sofa in the hospital
Three young African American Junior Volunteers (two girls, one boy) sitting on a sofa, each holding a can of soda. An African American man is squatting next to the sofa and a white man in a yellow...
With Miller and Jeanette Nichols on the Plaza
Dr. Richard Dreher, Children's Mercy Hospital physician accepting check from Jeanette Nichols with her husband Miller Nichols behind her with his hand on the nose of the boar statue on the Country...
Young male patient in the Junior League Playroom
Young white boy patient in the Junior League Playroom at Children's Mercy Hospital. The boy is watering a play garden next to a house. There are statues of Disney's dwarves Sneezy and Doc. The boy has...