Eating a formal dinner in a hospital room
Unidentified African American couple (woman and man) are dressed up and seated at a formally set table for four in a hospital room or ward with tablecloth, centerpiece, etc. Salads are before them...
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...
Ethel Moore and Carol (Graves) Smith talking together
Ethel Moore (left) talking with Carol (Graves) Smith in a corridor during an open house event at Old Children's Mercy on Independence Avenue. In the background can be seen Vivian Brown, and Patty...
Examining a model heart
Nurse Betty Lynch (standing) instructing nurses' aides Sheila Sante (left) and Lillian Reeves (right) on the heart using a model heart donated by the Kaw Valley Heart Association. There are booklets...
First annual Awards Tea
Attendees (white men, white and African American women) of the First Annual Awards Tea. Female nurses and other hospital employees are seated at several tables with a row of people standing in the...
Gene Austin playing piano and singing
Gene Austin playing piano and singing for patients (white girls and boys) and other visitors (African American and white women and a white man) around Christmas time. A large bird cage is on top of...
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 at a staff recognition lunch
Unidentified people (one African American man, one African American woman, the rest white women and a white man) gathered around a table, holding up certificates at what appears to be a staff...
Group of adolescent girls at Easter
Group photo of nine white teenage girls; three sitting in the foreground wearing dresses and holding Easter baskets and a decorated egg (perhaps); six girls sitting on or around the hospital bed in...
Group of visitors in a corridor during an open house
Group of women (African American and white) and an unidentified white male photographer in a hallway during an open house event at Old Children's Mercy on Independence Avenue. The women seen are Erma...
Group of visitors looking into a room during an open house
Group of five women (African American and white) with their backs to the camera as they crowd together to look into a room during an open house event at Old Children's Mercy on Independence Avenue...
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 Katharine Berry Richardson, Dr. Robert Schauffler and others
Group photo with Katharine Berry Richardson (standing, center, top step) and Dr. Robert Schauffler (seated on ledge, right) with two unidentified female nurses (one African American, one white) and...
Helping a Junior Volunteer
Seated unidentified white female Junior Volunteer receiving instructions from nurse Debra Riley on some sort of data entry form. Various people in the background.
Junior Volunteer Johnny Marx working in the supply room
Children's Mercy Hospital Junior Volunteer Johnny Marx working with an African American female nurse in the hospital's supply room. He seems to be assembling something for future use. Shelves of...
Junior Volunteer Johnny Marx working in the supply room
Children's Mercy Hospital Junior Volunteer Johnny Marx working with an African American female nurse in the supply room. He seems to be assembling something for future use. Shelves of supplies are all...
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...
Kathy Williams and Martha Molina during an open house event
Kathy Williams (left) speaking with Martha Molina (right) during an open house event at Old Children's Mercy on Independence Avenue. Both are seen from the side. Behind them are seen Hazelee Fowler...
Kathy Williams and Martha Molina during an open house event
Kathy Williams (right) speaking with Martha Molina (left with back to camera) during an open house event at Old Children's Mercy on Independence Avenue.
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 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...