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Eeyore visiting young patients

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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...

Date Published
1967-09-08

Emmet Kelly Jr. shaking hands with skeptical boy

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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...

Date Published
1966-12-01
1966-12-31

Emmet Kelly Jr. speaking with children

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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.

Date Published
1966-12-01
1966-12-31

Families in a waiting room

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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...

Date Published
1966-10-01
1966-10-31

Girl during a Christmas party

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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...

Date Published
1965-12-19

Girl petting Tuffie the baby elephant

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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).

Date Published
1967-06-01
1967-06-31

Group photo during an awards dinner

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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...

Date Published
1966-02-01
1966-02-28

Group photo during an awards dinner

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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...

Date Published
1965-07-01
1965-07-31

Group photo with staff award recipients

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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...

Date Published
1965-01-01
1965-12-31

John O'Donoghue playing Santa

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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...

Date Published
1965-12-19

Kanga visiting young patients

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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...

Date Published
1967-09-08

Katharine B. Richardson Elementary School dedication

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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...

Date Published
1964-05-19

Ken Curtis talking with a boy

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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...

Date Published
1967-10-19

Ken Curtis talking with two boys

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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...

Date Published
1967-10-19

Ken Curtis visiting a toddler in a high chair

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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...

Date Published
1967-10-19

Lab technician in the cardiovascular lab

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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...

Date Published
1965-11-09

Lab technicians at work

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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...

Date Published
1961
1970

Laughing nurse and patient

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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...

Date Published
1970-12-17

Louise Hedrick receiving her 15 year pin

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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...

Date Published
1964-02-19

Man in a stocking cap down on his knees

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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...

Date Published
1966-12-01
1966-12-31

Margaret Weaver handing out a certificate

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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...

Date Published
1961
1970

Mario Pagano with Carol Belt and others

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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...

Date Published
1965-01-01
1965-12-31

Members of the Young Americans Choir performing

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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...

Date Published
1966
1968

Mobilized for moving day

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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...

Date Published
1970-12-17