Jerry Smith with toddler
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 playing Santa
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 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...
Kansas City Chiefs football player Reg Carolan visiting a patient
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 a patient
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...
Kathy Lyons in the neonatal care unit
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 speaking with unidentified man
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
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 boy
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 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 child at his hospital bed
Ken Curtis dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke talking to an African American boy patient lying in his hospital bed.
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...
Ken Curtis visiting a toddler in his crib
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 patients
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 holding young boy
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.
Laughing girl on a gurney
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...
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...
Little girl with the Easter Bunny
White girl toddler with a short dress holding the hand of a tall white man in an Easter Bunny costume. Both are carrying Easter baskets and there's a trashcan behind them.
Loading a patient into an ambulance
Two white female nurses looking on as a white male ambulance driver loads a patient on a gurney into the back of the ambulance to be moved to the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. They're under...
Man helping small child on the seesaw
Unidentified white male Junior Volunteer assisting a young white child on the seesaw on the playground.
Mary Massey holding young girl in her arms with burn scars
Nurse Mary Massey holding in her arms a young African American girl with burn scarring on her face. The girl is looking at something off camera and to the right of the photo.
Marylane Thorne helping students study
Teacher Marylane Thorne standing between two hospital beds helping the boys in them to do their lessons. The boy in front of Thorne is African American, and the boy behind is white with eyeglasses...
Medical staff examining a patient during a disaster preparedness drill
Emergency medical personnel (white men and women and one man who is possibly Latino) standing around the litter of a young boy with paperwork and envelope laying on his stomach during a disaster...
Member of the Young American Choir performing
A white female member of the Young American Choir performing for patients and staff at Children's Mercy Hospital. The woman is holding one arm up to her chest while singing. Children (white and...