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Boy lying in his hospital bed

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Young white boy lying in his hospital bed with the middle section of his body wrapped in gauze. He's playing with toys on the hospital tray table. A can of Play-Doh can be recognized in the background...

Date Published
1961
1970

Charities campaign parade float

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Charities Campaign parade float passing by Katz Drug Store. A mock hospital ward is on the back of a truck. Nurses, doctors, and patients (all white) are interacting and pantomiming hospital care...

Date Published
1942-10-10

Child under medical instrument

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White boy patient lying on an examining table with an unidentified domed machine covering middle portion of his body. Looking over at the camera.

Date Published
1941
1950

Children in a hospital classroom

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Young patients (white girls and boys) in a hospital classroom. There's a long table in the foreground with five children seated at it. Other children are seated at individual desks, with an white...

Date Published
1941
1950

Children in a music lesson

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Classroom of students (three African American boys, the rest white girls and boys) who are mostly all in wheelchairs during a music lesson. Most children have a drum or other percussion instrument...

Date Published
1941
1950

Children in wheelchairs in the park

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Row of white children (one girl, the rest boys) in wheelchairs riding on the Blue Bird Walk that encircled the back yard stadium of Children's Mercy Hospital.

Date Published
1941
1950

Children listening to Peter and the Wolf in a classroom

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Patients (white girls and boys) in the hospital classroom receiving a music lesson by listening to Prokofiev's symphonic tale "Peter & the Wolf". A diagram of the orchestra's arrangement is on the...

Date Published
1941
1950

Doctor giving an eye exam

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Doctor (white, male) giving an eye exam at the Children's Mercy Hospital eye clinic. The young white boy patient is sitting and looking at the doctor who has placed a hand on his head. A white female...

Date Published
1941
1950

Doctor with girl patient

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Unidentified white male doctor in suspenders and no jacket standing with his hand on young white girl's arm while she lies on examining table with a domed piece of hospital equipment covering her...

Date Published
1941
1950

Eight boys and girls in a play room

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Eight boys and girls (all white) in a play room at Children's Mercy Hospital. Five are sitting in a mobile hospital cart. One is sitting on a hobby horse and two are sitting on stools in front of cart...

Date Published
1941
1950

Eighteen year old former patient

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Portrait of an eighteen year old boy who was a patient at Children's Mercy Hospital when he was six years old.

Date Published
1950-01-26

Former hospital patient

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White teenage girl, a former Children's Mercy Hospital patient, now 14 years old from Cassville, Mo., posing for a photo wearing a large straw hat and necklace.

Date Published
1940-04-22

Former hospital patient on a pony

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Young white boy riding on a pony in a barnyard. A cart is behind him and an unidentified white man with a cowboy hat is behind the cart. A barn and/or stable is in the background. The boy is a former...

Date Published
1942-01-01
1942-12-31

Former hospital patient with a dog

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Young white boy in shorts in the yard of a house with his dog. The boy is a former patient at Children's Mercy Hospital who had dislocated hips. There's a wooden fence around the house and other...

Date Published
1942-01-01
1942-12-31

Group of children outside in the park

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Group of young patients (all white girls and boys) out on the lawn, in the area of the Children's Mercy Hospital stadium steps. Some patients are seated in hospital carts and some are seated on a...

Date Published
1941
1950

Group photo from the boys' ward

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Group photo of nine white boys of varying ages in the boys' ward. Five are standing and the others are on hospital beds behind them.

Date Published
1947-07-01
1947-07-31

Katherine Wilson instructing young patients

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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...

Date Published
1949-01-01
1949-12-31

Katherine Wilson with a patient

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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...

Date Published
1949-01-01
1949-12-31

Lena Dagley with patients

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Lena Dagley with patients and other women (all white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Dagley is sitting at talking with three other women. A male and female patient are on the right. A photo of the...

Date Published
1941
1950

Lena Dagley, Elmira Collins, and Mary Becker

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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...

Date Published
1948-06-30

Margaret Reeble with young patient

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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...

Date Published
1950-02-06

Members of the Kiwanis Club presenting a check

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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...

Date Published
1941
1950

Nurse outside with toddlers

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Unidentified white female nurse outside with five toddlers (all white boys) in a wagon in the Children's Mercy Hospital playground area. Most of the children have bandages or casts on, including one...

Date Published
1941
1950