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Arriving at the new building

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A young boy (possibly Latino) in a wheelchair holding a large blanket and wearing slippers coming through the doors of the new Children's Mercy Hospital building with the help of an unidentified white...

Date Published
1970-01-01
1970-12-31

Audience during a children's Christmas show

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Audience of children (African American and white girls and boys), staff, and nurses (African American and white women) during a Christmas show. Some children are in wheelchairs.

Date Published
1966-12-01
1966-12-31

Ballerina dancing for the Christmas party

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White ballerina dancing on her toes with hands above her head for the audience (African American and white children, white women and men, African American women) during the Christmas party.

Date Published
1966-12-01
1966-12-31

Dancers at a Christmas show for the children

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White female dancer with checked shirt and striped socks dancing with someone who's striped socks only are seen, entertaining at a Christmas show for patients (African American and white children)...

Date Published
1966-12-01
1966-12-31

Girl in a wheelchair arriving on moving day

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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...

Date Published
1970-12-17

Hospital employees at a staff recognition event

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Crowd of Children's Mercy Hospital employees (white women and men) gathered in the Century Ballroom, Crown Center with a refreshment table for staff recognition awards. One white man is in a...

Date Published
1989-01-01
1989-12-31

John O'Donoghue playing Santa

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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...

Date Published
1965-12-19

People lined up outside the hospital

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Group of people (African American women and men and white men and a white woman) lined up on a sidewalk outside of Mercy Hospital, including several doctors in lab coats, nurses in uniform, a woman in...

Date Published
1961
1970

Preparing for the move

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View of a corridor in the old hospital building with a group of white female nurses and other staff (white women and men) at the far end and two unidentified white men in the foreground along with...

Date Published
1970-12-17

Santa and others handing out gifts or candy

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Santa Claus (white man) passing out either small gifts or candy to young patients with nurses and other adults in attendance during a Christmas party in the lobby.

Date Published
1964-12-01
1964-12-31

Santa speaking with boy in a wheelchair

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Santa Claus visiting with a young boy in a wheelchair being pushed by an unidentified white man who is leaning over him from behind. A white man dressed as an elf is partially seen standing on the far...

Date Published
1964-12-01
1964-12-31

Speaker at fountain dedication

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Unidentified white male speaker in front of a microphone at the third dedication of the bronze boar fountain for Children's Mercy Hospital on the Country Club Plaza. John Stockwell is seen in the...

Date Published
1964-05-18

Unloading children and equipment

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Nurses (African American and white women) and white male doctors help unload patients, wheelchairs, linens, and oxygen tanks from the hospital van during the move to the new hospital on Gillham Road.

Date Published
1970-01-01
1970-12-31

Woman in front of an audience during the Christmas party

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White woman standing in front of an audience of patients (African American and white children), staff, and nurses (African American and white women) during the Christmas party. She's holding a sheet...

Date Published
1966-12-01
1966-12-31