Children watching a female clown
Children (African American and white) watching a white woman performing in a clown outfit. The woman is dressed in overalls with a plaid shirt. She has a black hat and makeup on the face. The children...
Children watching a puppet show
Children's Mercy Hospital patients (mostly white girls with one African American girl and one white boy) seated in wheelchairs in Ward 2E watching a puppet show presented by Jim Hesse of Creegan...
Children's Mercy building under construction
View of Children's Mercy Hospital while under construction at 24th and Gillham. A crane has been erected on the roof and there's a temporary shed on the side. Two cars and two trucks are parked in...
Children's Mercy Hospital building
View of the newly constructed Children's Mercy Hospital building at 24th & Gillham.
Children's Mercy Hospital Staff watching a performance
Children's Mercy Hospital Staff watching a performance of the Young America Choir. The choir is off-camera. The physicians (white), nurses(white), and other adults (white with two African American men...
Choir entertain at the hospital
Central Junior High School Girl's choir entertaining at Children's Mercy Hospital. All the teenage girls are African American, as is their director. Two unidentified white women are seated behind the...
Christmas at Children's Mercy Hospital
A hospital ward crowded with unidentified people and patients (African American and white, men, women, boys, and girls), some in hospital beds, celebrating Christmas. Christmas decorations are on one...
Christmas at Children's Mercy Hospital
A hospital ward crowded with unidentified people and patients (African American and white, men, women, boys, and girls), some in hospital beds, celebrating Christmas. Paper Christmas trees lay in...
Christmas at Children's Mercy Hospital
A hospital ward crowded with unidentified people and patients (African American and white, men, women, boys, and girls), some in hospital beds, celebrating Christmas. Paper Christmas trees lay in...
Christmas at Children's Mercy Hospital
Large crowd of unidentified people and patients (African American and white) packed into a room for a Christmas celebration at Children's Mercy Hospital. Several patients are in hospital beds and...
Christmas decorations in front of the hospital's entrance
A large Santa's sleigh and reindeer mounted in front of the hospital's entrance on Independence Avenue. The sleigh is set on a tall platform and the reindeer appear to be flying in the air. A wire for...
Christmas display at the Wendy Ward Christmas Party
Christmas display at the Wendy Ward Christmas Party. Christmas lights are strung along the three Wise Men painted onto a window next to a life size Santa figure in front of a doorway.
Christmas tree in the lobby of the new building
Christmas tree in the corner of the lobby of the new Children's Mercy Hospital building in front of a display of British toy soldiers. Two folded wheelchairs are next to the tree.
Class in session
Young students/patients (white boys and girls) in the Children's Mercy Hospital School Room at the beginning of it's 54th term watching instructor Kay Wolfe standing behind a phonics board with words...
Clayton Moore and H. Roe Bartle with a young girl
Clayton Moore and Kansas City mayor H. Roe Bartle with a young white girl at Children's Mercy Hospital. The girl is sitting on the left. She is handing a photo of herself at 3 years old to Moore...
Clayton Moore visiting two boy patients
Clayton Moore visiting two white boy patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. The actor is wearing his costume from the Lone Ranger television show. He is holding both boys in his lap while looking...
Clown entertaining children seated in nurses' laps
Clown (white man) wearing a funny hat crouched down to speak with young patients (African American and white children), some being held by white female nurses, during the Children's Mercy Hospital...
Clown performing on the hospital lawn
Clown (white male) from the Truman Corners Circus performing with a cycle of some sort on the lawn of Children's Mercy Hospital.
Clown performing on the hospital lawn
Clown (white male) from the Truman Corners Circus performing on the lawn of Children's Mercy Hospital.
Clown speaking with young girl
Clown (white male) from the Truman Corners Circus bending down to talk with a young girl with a head scarf holding a crafted bunny, on the lawn of the Children's Mercy Hospital.
Clowns entertaining children
Two clowns (white, indeterminate sex) with backs to the camera kneeling in front of a row of African American and white children and white female nurses entertaining them. A young boy with an eye...
Combing a patient's hair
Unidentified white female nurse combing a white toddler boy's hair as he sits in his hospital crib.
Construction site for the new hospital
Construction site for the new hospital with the event tent for the dedication ceremony next to it. In the distance Our Lady of Sorrows Church can be seen as well as the KCTV-5 Tower.
Coordinating the move
Coordinating the move into the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. M. Lusita Archer, Nursing Director is seen at a board and Dr. Ned Smull is seated at a nearby table speaking into the microphone...
Corporal Ron Leslie and his police dog
Corporal Ron Leslie holding his police dog's leash with the dog seated on a chair. Both looking at the camera.