Boys and girls in hospital beds outside on the fourth floor porch
Young patients (white boys and girls) lying in a row of hospital beds taking in some sun on the fourth floor porch. A few cribs are the end of the row and a white female nurse is seen at the last bed...
Changing an infant's diaper
White mother changing her infant's diaper on a bed with help from a white female caregiver standing next to her. A crib is behind them. In the Parent Care Unit of Children's Mercy Hospital.
Combing a patient's hair
Unidentified white female nurse combing a white toddler boy's hair as he sits in his hospital crib.
Dolores Turnage with patients
Dolores Turnage, RN, standing in a ward of hospital beds with three white children. Two of the children are on the bed in front of her. One is seated and holding a toy, the other is standing and being...
Dr. Smull showing Ilus Davis a ward of children
Dr. Ned Smull in a lab coat standing with Kansas City mayor Ilus Davis in one of the hospitals wards. A young white girl is seated across from them in her mother's lap with a table between them and...
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...
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...
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...
Getting a patient ready for the move
Nurse Diane Galardi getting a white girl patient in a crib ready to move to the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. Galardi is wearing a winter coat.
Girl in a crib with a nurse and Standard Oil visitors all around her
White toddler seated in a crib with a white female nurse and thirteen white men visiting from Standard Oil Company standing all around.
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.
Neonatal care unit
White female doctor and white female nurses at work in the neonatal care unit. Several cribs in a row are pictured along with medical equipment.
Nurse and child in burn care
Unidentified white female nurse wearing mask, gown, and cap caring for a white toddler lying in a crib in the Burn Unit of Children's Mercy Hospital. The child is in a diaper and has bandages on the...
Nurse Andy holding a toddler
Nurse Andy holding a white toddler patient while standing between two hospital cribs on the outside roof terrace of Children's Mercy Hospital.
Nurse Anna Fenner with baby
Nurse Anna Fenner and son Jack outside on a sun roof of Children's Mercy Hospital. Jack is standing up in his crib, being supported by Fenner.
Nurse applying a toddler's bandages
Nurse Bertha Clifton gently applying bandages on the arm of an eight-month old African American girl patient in the burn unit. The girl is sitting up in a crib with a Mylar balloon tied to the end of...
Nurse attending an infant on the baby ward
Unidentified white female nurse leaning over a crib in the baby ward. Photo taken from inside an office looking out into the ward.
Nurse checking on an infant under an oxygen tent
Unidentified white female nurse with something in her hand standing next to the crib of an infant under an oxygen tent. A standing scale is next to the crib.
Nurse feeding an infant
Unidentified white female nurse seated in a rocking chair and bottle feeding a white infant. A crib with stuffed animals is beside them.
Nurse holding crack-exposed infant with visitors looking on
Nurse Pat Erwin is seated by a crib and holding a crack-exposed infant girl while Senator John Danforth, and Dr. Howard Kilbride with the Neonatal look on as part of a tour being given to the Senator.
Nurse making notes in a chart
Unidentified white female nurse checking on a white infant lying on its stomach in a crib and making notes to the patient's chart in the neonatal unit. She's in scrubs with a stethoscope around her...
Nurse treating infant in the neonatal unit
Unidentified white female nurse attending to a white infant in a crib in the neonatal unit of the hospital. Patient charts are on top of the crib along with a Styrofoam cup.
Nurse updating a chart
Unidentified white female nurse updating a chart on a clipboard at the side of an white infant patient's bed. The baby is attached to monitoring equipment.
Nurses about to move a young patient
Nurses Debbie Collier (left) and Betty Lynch (right) in overcoats standing bedside a crib with a young African American girl patient to be moved into the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. Lynch...
Nurses and doctors interacting with infants
Nurses (white, women) and doctors (white, men) interacting with infants in the baby ward at Children's Mercy Hospital. A doctor and nurse are standing over an African American (possibly) infant on the...