Eating cake
Joe Lewis, Washington Director of the Baker's Union sitting between two white girl patients, all eating cake with icing on their faces. The girl on the right is in a wheelchair and the other has her...
Gene Austin playing piano and singing
Gene Austin playing piano and singing for patients (white girls and boys) and other visitors (white women) around Christmas time. A large Christmas tree is next to the piano and cribs are in the...
Gerald L. Maupin dressed as Abraham Lincoln
Gerald L. Maupin, aged 74 dressed in costume portraying Abraham Lincoln, talking to a white boy in a wheelchair and a young white girl sitting at a table in a classroom at Children's Mercy Hospital...
Girl in a mask in a wheelchair
African American girl patient with leg braces seated in a wheelchair and wearing a mask. An African American boy is in the background.
Girl in a wheelchair arriving on moving day
Unidentified white female nurse delivering a girl patient in a wheelchair and dressed in a winter coat to the new Children's Mercy Hospital building on moving day. Dr. Ruth Yohe can be seen standing...
Girls sewing together
White girl patient's in a hand sewing class at the sitting together and sewing. Two girls are in wheelchairs and the rest seated on hospital beds.
Group of boys and one girl in group in a ward
Four boys (one African American, one white) and one white girl gathered together for a photo in one of the wards. The boy at the right of the photo is in a wheelchair.
Halloween hats in the classroom
Group of patients (African American and white) and a white female teacher in a Children's Mercy Hospital classroom wearing goofy homemade Halloween hats. One girl is in a wheelchair.
Icee the Bear with boys and girls
Icee the Bear sitting with several boys and girls (African American and white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. There are two girls sitting on the lap of the mascot for the 7-Eleven company. Another boy...
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...
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...
Kids with plastic Santas
Group of boys (white) and girls (two white and an African American girl in a wheelchair) in a circle around two identical facing plastic Santa statues. One boy is looking directly at the camera and...
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...
Marylane Thorne with students
Marylane Thorne watching as an African American girl student in a wheelchair leans across her to find something on the globe on the desk in front. Other students (two African American girls, an...
Marylane Thorne with students
Marylane Thorne seated with students (three African American girls, one African American teenage (possibly) boy, and two white boys) in a rough circle in the hospital's classroom. One patient is in a...
Music class
Children's Mercy Hospital patients (white and African American girls and boys) seated in a classroom, all in wheelchairs and hospital beds, for music time. Most patients are holding some sort of...
Nurse Deskins with young children on the patio
Nurse Deskins on the patio with children (white girls and boys). One is standing, another in a wheelchair, and Deskins is helping one who has fallen.
Nurse laughing with two patients
Nurse Alice McDonald talking to and laughing with a white sister and brother in wheelchairs.
Nurse with children on the entrance stairs
Young patients (all white girls and boys), one in a wheelchair, with two white female nurses gathered on the hospital's front steps for a group photo.
Nurses preparing to move a patient in a wheelchair
Nurse Barbara Weaver, center, with a white female student nurse from Research hospital, left, preparing a girl patient in a wheelchair to be handed off to a white female transport nurse, left, and...
Parade float from Children's Mercy Hospital
Children's Mercy Hospital parade float featuring a young white girl sitting in a wheelchair holding a balloon while a white female teenaged nurse in uniform with cape is waving to crowd. The float is...
Patient with group of people
Young white girl patient seated in a wheelchair with casts on her legs in front of a table in the Children's Mercy Hospital playground. Three white female nurses and three other people (two white...
Patients at the hospital school
Mrs. Kearney teaching sentence diagramming in the hospital's school room to a group of children (white girls and boy) gathered around her as she writes on a chalkboard. One boy is in a wheelchair and...
Patients in a school classroom
Patients (all white boys and girls) in a school classroom at Children's Mercy Hospital. They are all looking down at their desks and writing. Students are sitting at a long table on the right. Lots of...
Patients in a school classroom
Patients (all white boys and girls) in a school classroom at Children's Mercy Hospital. They are all looking down at their desks and writing. The student in front is in a mobile hospital bed. Several...