Irma Stillwell (center) standing next to an oxygen tank assisting an unidentified white male doctor working on a baby in an incubator. An unidentified white female nurse on the right is checking a...
Jack Steadman (right), general manager of the Kansas City Chiefs presenting an autographed football to an African American boy patient. Herman Sutherland, president of the Central Governing Board of...
Jackie Gleason and June Taylor visiting patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. Gleason is signing an autograph while Taylor looks down at him. Boys (white) are sitting on chairs along the hallway and...
Jerry Smith holding a white toddler during an open house for the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. The toddler is reaching out and grasping the hand of a white woman just out of the photo.
John O'Donoghue, Kansas City Athletics pitcher, playing Santa Claus and entertaining patients at the Wendy Ward Party at Children's Mercy Hospital. He's seated on a sofa with a young white girl on his...
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 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...
Kansas City Chiefs football player Reg Carolan visiting a young African American girl patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. Carolan is kneeling and smiling at a girl sitting in a wheelchair. She is...
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson visiting an African American boy patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. Dawson is smiling while looking down at the young boy held by nurse Karen Nelson. The...
Nurse Kathy Lyons doing something with her back turned to the camera next to an incubator with a white newborn in it in the neonatal care unit.
Kathy Lyons talking to an unidentified white man that is only partly seen while standing next to an incubator and other machinery in the neonatal care unit.
Ken Curtis greeting four girls (two African American and two white) and a white woman at Children's Mercy Hospital. Curtis is dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke. He is leaning down to shake...
Ken Curtis talking with a white boy on a hospital bed in Children's Mercy Hospital. Curtis is dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke. He is leaning forward and looking down at the boy in the bed...
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 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 dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke talking to an African American boy patient lying in his hospital bed.
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...
Ken Curtis dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke, hat off, bent over to visit with a white boy toddler in his crib.
Ken Curtis visiting a young white boy patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. Curtis is dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke. He is pointing up while talking to the boy. The child is sitting in a...
Ken Curtis visiting a young boy patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. Curtis is dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke. He is looking down and smiling at the white boy who is in a crib and...
Ken Curtis dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke with his arm around a white toddler boy in a hospital gown while other patients (white girls) and a white female nurse watch.
Keystone Cop style clown (white man) holding a young white boy with Mr. and Mrs. Claus (both white) nearby during the Christmas party. Mrs. Claus has her accordion.
White girl with long hair, lying on a gurney on her stomach but propped up on an elbow and laughing with one hand over her face. Two unidentified adults (African American man, white woman) to the side...
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...
Unidentified white male medical student or resident being observed by a senior white male physician as he listens to the heart of an African American infant lying on an examination table with a...
