Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

This not-for-profit hospital was founded in Kansas City in 1897 by two sisters, Alice Berry Graham and Katherine Richardson to serve the poor and ill children of the area. This collection features photos of patients, staff, and volunteers all through the hospital's history.

Items in Collection: 3,206

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Advertising & Media

Asian American History & Representation

Indigenous History & Representation

Kansas City History

Women’s History & Representation

One little white girl sitting on a white female nurse's lap and another small African American child in wheelchair receiving presents and books from a white woman and two white men, (man handing book...

Date Published

1961

1970

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...

Date Published

1965-12-23

Ilus Davis, mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, with an unidentified white female nurse in a surgical suite. They are looking up at equipment while standing next to a cabinet. Large lights are hanging...

Date Published

1970-12-01

1970-12-31

UMKC University Libraries Digital Collections

Delivering books to the children at Christmas

Dr. Smull showing Ilus Davis a ward of children

Ilus Davis with a nurse in a surgical suite

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LaBudde Special Collections

Marr Sound Archives

University Archives