Eeyore visiting young patients
Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh visiting young patients (African American and white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Eeyore is looking down and holding out one arm to boys sitting in chairs. Most of the...
Emmet Kelly Jr. shaking hands with skeptical boy
Emmet Kelly, Jr. shaking hands with a young African American boy in a coat and hat. The boy is not at all thrilled and looks as if he might start to cry. Another African American boy behind them looks...
Emmet Kelly Jr. speaking with children
Emmet Kelly, Jr. visiting on Clown Day. He's speaking with a group of white girls in a corridor. There are people (African American and white women and men) lined up on both sides of the corridor.
Families in a waiting room
Patients and family (African America and white women and children, one African American man) seated in chairs in a clinic waiting room at Children's Mercy Hospital. A sign (unreadable) is on the wall...
Girl during a Christmas party
Young African American girl dancing during a Wendy Ward Christmas party. She's holding something in her hand. A row of seated African American and white women and white men (one holding a white girl...
Girl petting Tuffie the baby elephant
Tuffie the Baby Elephant, with her white male handler, being petted by a white girl while surrounded by patients (African American boys) and staff (African American and white women).
Group photo during an awards dinner
Group photo (African American women, Filipino American woman, white women, white men) during an awards dinner. People seated in the front have certificates on their laps. M. Luisita Archer is in the...
Group photo during an awards dinner
Group photo during an awards dinner: Seated: unidentified, Grace Vermillion, Mattie Wyatt, Carol Smith ; standing: Jane Shockey, Helen Plumberg, unidentified, unidentified, Art Bales, Charlotte Lass...
Group photo of nursing students on the hospital entrance stairs
Children's Mercy Hospital Nursing Students in a group photo taken on the stairs of the hospital's entrance: Richard Bates; Mary Enslen; Pamela Willis; Wendy Daniels; Charyl Bovos; Pat Stegner; Joan...
Group photo with staff award recipients
Group photo of staff award recipients during the Children's Mercy Hospital Staff Awards Dinner held at Union Station. Pictured are: Art Bales (back row), standing left to right, Jane Shockey, Helen...
John O'Donoghue playing Santa
John O'Donoghue, Kansas City Athletics pitcher, playing Santa Claus and entertaining African American girls in wheelchairs. They are all holding onto his sleigh bells. A group of hospital employees...
Kanga visiting young patients
Kanga from Winnie the Pooh visiting young patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. Kanga has a small plush Roo in the pouch and is looking down at two rows of boys (African American and white). Young...
Katharine B. Richardson Elementary School dedication
An unidentified white man is speaking at a podium on stage during the Katharine B. Richardson Elementary School dedication; Dr. Ned Smull, second from left is among those seated on stage behind the...
Ken Curtis talking with a boy
Ken Curtis signing an autograph for an African American boy patient on a surgical bed. Curtis is dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke. The boy is sitting up and is smiling. Two unidentified...
Ken Curtis talking with two boys
Ken Curtis talking with two white boys at Children's Mercy Hospital. Curtis is dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke. He is leaning down on a table where one boy is sitting. Both boys are...
Ken Curtis visiting a toddler in a high chair
Ken Curtis dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke crouched down and talking to a young white boy patient in a high chair with a tray as African American and white female nurses and another...
Lab technician in the cardiovascular lab
Unidentified African American woman working at a piece of equipment in the cardiovascular lab. She's wearing a lab coat and is mostly turned away from the camera. More instruments and equipment is...
Lab technicians at work
An unidentified African American woman in a nurse's uniform (left) and an unidentified white woman in a lab coat (right) working in Dr. Stanley Hellerstein's laboratory at Children's Mercy Hospital...
Laughing nurse and patient
Nurse Dorothy Wells standing by the bed an African American girl patient is sitting on before moving in the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. Both are laughing and Wells is looking into the...
Louise Hedrick receiving her 15 year pin
Louise Hedrick walking back to her seat after accepting her 15-year service award at the Service Awards dinner. Ned Smull is standing behind the head table and an unidentified African American woman...
Man in a stocking cap down on his knees
Unidentified white man down on his knees wearing a stocking cap and joking with two other unidentified white men. Standing to the left in the photograph are three young white women. An African...
Margaret Weaver handing out a certificate
Margaret Weaver presenting certificate to Mintie Carnahan during the Service Award tea. She is seated to the right of John Stockwell with Ethel Vaughn seated to the right of her at the end of the...
Mario Pagano with Carol Belt and others
Mario Pagano seated with (left to right) Julia Hill, Carol Belt, Dorotheil Galloway, and dieticians Philips and Gibbons standing behind him and each resting a hand on Mario's shoulders during the...
Members of the Young Americans Choir performing
Members of the Young Americans Choir performing in a stairwell of Children's Mercy Hospital. Young men (white with one African American) and women (white with one African American) are standing on the...
Mobilized for moving day
Children's' Mercy Hospital staff mobilized for moving day. At the far left is an unidentified white woman in a lab coat; Dr. Ned Smull seated with microphone in hand with three unidentified white men...