First annual Awards Tea
Attendees (white men, white and African American women) of the First Annual Awards Tea. Female nurses and other hospital employees are seated at several tables with a row of people standing in the...
Gail Davis talking with patients
Gail Davis talking with patients (African American and white) and female nurses (white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Davis is dressed as the Annie Oakley character, wearing a bandana and cowboy hat...
Gene Austin playing piano and singing
Gene Austin playing piano and singing for patients (white girls and boys) and other visitors (African American and white women and a white man) around Christmas time. A large bird cage is on top of...
Gene Austin playing piano and singing
Gene Austin playing piano and singing for patients (white girls and boys) and other visitors (white women) around Christmas time. A large Christmas tree is next to the piano and cribs are in the...
Gene Autry and Gail Davis with a young patient
Gene Autry and Gail Davis with a young white male patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. Autry is standing to the left of the child while shaking a hand. Davis is dressed as the character Annie Oakley...
Gene Autry standing with young patients
Gene Autry standing with young patients (white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. A young boy is standing in front of Autry, who is holding a cowboy hat at his side. Two other children are sitting in a...
Girl in a crib with a nurse and Standard Oil visitors all around her
White toddler seated in a crib with a white female nurse and thirteen white men visiting from Standard Oil Company standing all around.
Girl in bed with toys
White girl sitting up in a hospital bed holding a stuffed dog with gifts and a decorative paper Santa on the bed beside her. The two gifts are a "Stylofil threadwriter" and a game of "Chinese Checkers...
Girl in robe with a doll
Young white girl in a quilted robe holding a doll. She's looking over at the camera.
Girl receiving a sweater at Christmas
Teenaged white girl sitting up in a hospital bed and opening a gift of a sweater on Christmas morning. She's looking forward at the unseen person who gave it to her. Two dolls are on the empty bed...
Girl receiving an eye exam
Young African American girl receiving an eye exam from an unidentified white male optometrist. She's wearing a measuring device and is seated next to a cabinet of various lenses. Her coin purse is in...
Girl with a piggy bank
Young white girl sitting up in her hospital bed wearing a hospital gown and holding a handmade piggy bank fashioned from an old bleach bottle.
Girl with older woman
Unidentified pre-teen white girl with unidentified older white woman in glasses standing behind her to the left. Possibly the girl's mother.
Girls sewing together
White girl patient's in a hand sewing class at the sitting together and sewing. Two girls are in wheelchairs and the rest seated on hospital beds.
Group at a staff recognition lunch
Unidentified people (one African American man, one African American woman, the rest white women and a white man) gathered around a table, holding up certificates at what appears to be a staff...
Group luncheon
Group luncheon attended by hospital staff and administration (all white women and men). People are seated at several tables and all are looking up and over at the photographer. A uniformed nurse is...
Group of adolescent girls at Easter
Group photo of nine white teenage girls; three sitting in the foreground wearing dresses and holding Easter baskets and a decorated egg (perhaps); six girls sitting on or around the hospital bed in...
Group of boys and one girl in group in a ward
Four boys (one African American, one white) and one white girl gathered together for a photo in one of the wards. The boy at the right of the photo is in a wheelchair.
Group of ten girls
Group of ten white girls gathered for a group photo as participants in an unidentified show. Two girls are wearing sleeveless gowns.
Group photo of student nurses
Student nurses (all white women) posing in a group on the staircase in the lobby of Children's Mercy Hospital. Dr. Wayne Hart is standing in the middle of the group.
High school teen girl
Portrait of eighteen year old white girl adopted along with her twin sister while babies at Children's Mercy Hospital.
High school teen girl
Portrait of a sixteen year old white girl who was adopted along with her twin sister while babies at Children's Mercy Hospital.
High school teen girl
Portrait of an eighteen year old white girl who was adopted along with her twin sister while babies at Children's Mercy Hospital.
Home economics class presenting handmade gifts
Marylane Thorne, teacher at the hospital's school, accepting donated items handmade by a home economics class (white girls) of the Kansas City Public School System. Another white woman is watching...
Hospital administrators with certificates
Children's Mercy Hospital, left to right: Dr. Daniel Darrow; Mr. John Mosher; Mr. Ed McDaniel holding an award certificate and check; Mrs. Margaret Weaver; Mr. John Stockwell; Ethel Howard holding an...