Actor George Lindsey visiting a patient
Actor George Lindsey visiting a patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. He and a white female nurse are standing over a white infant in a crib. Lindsey is talking while the nurse is smiling. Medical...
African American couple standing next to magazine article exhibit
Unidentified African American man with his arm around an unidentified African American woman while they're standing next to an exhibit board of a Star Magazine article during an unidentified event...
Agnes Messersmith with her son
Agnes Messersmith holding her son while outside near some trees. She's wearing a heavy coat.
Attaching a monitor to an infant
An African American mother is seated and holding her infant child in her lap as a white female doctor attaches a monitor to the child's chest. Dr. Frost is seated nearby watching and smiling.
Boy patient held by a nurse
African American boy patient, seven months old, sitting on and African American female nurse's lap at Children's Mercy Hospital. The nurse is only partly seen. The boy is looking forward at the camera...
Boy patient held by a nurse
African American boy patient, seven months old, sitting on and African American female nurse's lap at Children's Mercy Hospital. The nurse is only partly seen. The boy is looking forward at the camera...
Carol Belt holding a baby girl
Carol Belt, volunteer and former nurse with the hospital, holding baby white girl while seated with doors or windows to the outside behind them during the Hall Family Outpatient Center open house...
Cassandra Campbell holding an infant in her arms
Hospital volunteer Cassandra Campbell holding a white baby wrapped in a blanket in her arms while seated. Facing the camera and smiling.
Cathy Burkes holding an infant
Nurse Cathy Burkes holding a white baby to her with a patch on its cheek and tubes connected to the patch in the neonatal care unit of Children's Mercy Hospital.
Children and nurses with Santa Claus
Children (African American and white) and nurses (African American and white women) with Santa Claus (white) at Jerry Smith's "Christmas Village USA." Babies and toddlers are sitting on the nurses'...
Children playing in a hospital ward
Three white female nurses in a hospital ward with white girl toddlers engaged in various play activities on the floor between rows of beds. A stained glass window is on the far wall on the right. The...
Cribs on a porch
Cribs in a row, with infants, on a porch on the third floor baby ward at Children's Mercy Hospital.
Doctor examining an infant
Unidentified white male doctor examining a white baby with a stethoscope on a bed while two unidentified white women watch. The woman in red in the center has a hospital name tag, role unknown.
Doctor in the neonatal care unit
Unidentified white male doctor checking on a white infant in an incubator in the neonatal care unit. Monitors and various other instruments are all around.
Doctor leaning over to treat an infant
Bearded white male doctor leaning over to treat an African American infant lying in a crib as part of the Genetic Counseling Unit in room 116B of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
Doctor with baby on the floor
Unidentified white man (likely a physician) seated on the floor with an African American baby on a blanket and handing the baby plastic shapes to put in ball sorter. The child has one of the shapes in...
Dr. George M. Polk holding an infant
Dr. George M. Polk holding his infant son while sitting on a porch ledge while an intern at Children's Mercy Hospital.
Eating a formal dinner in a hospital room
Unidentified African American couple (woman and man) are dressed up and seated at a formally set table for four in a hospital room or ward with tablecloth, centerpiece, etc. Salads are before them...
Emaciated infant patient
Emaciated white infant patient laying on the lap of a white woman, likely either Dr. Katharine Richardson or her sister Dr. Alice Berry Graham. She is looking down while leaning on a side table. There...
Group photo for families of children that underwent ECMO
Parents (African American woman, white women and men) with their children who were helped by Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) therapy at Children's Mercy Hospital. One father is wearing a...
Group photo for families of children that underwent ECMO
Families gathered for a group photo together at the Wonderscope Children's Museum during the 1995 Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Reunion. One boy in the front has his face painted. Children range...
Head Nurse Pat Erwin with infant
Children's Mercy Hospital Employee of the Month, Pat Erwin RN, Head Nurse with the Newborn Intensive Care Unit, seated and holding a newborn white infant.
Healthy infant patient
Healthy white infant patient depicted in a previous photograph after ten months of recovery. The child is laying in the lap of a white woman, likely either Dr. Katharine Richardson or her sister Dr...
Ilus Davis with unidentified doctors and businessmen
Ilus Davis, mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, standing with unidentified doctors and businessmen (all white men). An older white woman is standing on the left holding a white baby. Davis is standing...
In home safety assessment for new parents
Unidentified white man and woman couple with the woman holding their baby. They're standing in the child's nursery as an unidentified white woman at the left of the photo holds a tape measure to...