Attaching a monitor to an infant
An African American mother is seated and holding her infant child in her lap as a white female doctor attaches a monitor to the child's chest. Dr. Frost is seated nearby watching and smiling.
Doctor examining an infant
Unidentified white male doctor examining a white baby with a stethoscope on a bed while two unidentified white women watch. The woman in red in the center has a hospital name tag, role unknown.
Doctor in the neonatal care unit
Unidentified white male doctor checking on a white infant in an incubator in the neonatal care unit. Monitors and various other instruments are all around.
Doctor leaning over to treat an infant
Bearded white male doctor leaning over to treat an African American infant lying in a crib as part of the Genetic Counseling Unit in room 116B of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
Doctor with baby on the floor
Unidentified white man (likely a physician) seated on the floor with an African American baby on a blanket and handing the baby plastic shapes to put in ball sorter. The child has one of the shapes in...
Dr. George M. Polk holding an infant
Dr. George M. Polk holding his infant son while sitting on a porch ledge while an intern at Children's Mercy Hospital.
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...
Emaciated infant patient
Emaciated white infant patient laying on the lap of a white woman, likely either Dr. Katharine Richardson or her sister Dr. Alice Berry Graham. She is looking down while leaning on a side table. There...
Healthy infant patient
Healthy white infant patient depicted in a previous photograph after ten months of recovery. The child is laying in the lap of a white woman, likely either Dr. Katharine Richardson or her sister Dr...
Ilus Davis with unidentified doctors and businessmen
Ilus Davis, mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, standing with unidentified doctors and businessmen (all white men). An older white woman is standing on the left holding a white baby. Davis is standing...
Irma Stillwell and two others in the neonatal care unit
Irma Stillwell (center) standing next to an oxygen tank assisting an unidentified white male doctor working on a baby in an incubator. An unidentified white female nurse on the right is checking a...
Listening to an infant's heart
Unidentified white male medical student or resident being observed by a senior white male physician as he listens to the heart of an African American infant lying on an examination table with a...
Moving infants into the new building
Staff (white women), white female nurses, a white male doctor, medical equipment and two infants in the elevator of the new Children's Mercy Hospital building on moving day.
Moving infants into the new building
Two white female nurses, each holding an infant wrapped in blankets, a white male doctor holding a large coat, and a white woman on the far right operating the elevator during the moving day into the...
Ned Smull giving a tour for Carolyn Reid Bond
Dr. Ned Smull with Carolyn Reid Bond and Mrs. Hugh Sprague standing next to incubators in the neo-natal unit during a tour. One incubator is occupied by an African American infant who is crying.
Ned Smull giving a tour for Carolyn Reid Bond
Dr. Ned Smull and Carolyn Reid Bond standing by an incubator occupied by an African American infant in the neo-natal unit during a tour. Other people (white women) can be seen in the background.
Ned Smull giving a tour for Carolyn Reid Bond
Dr. Ned Smull and Carolyn Reid Bond stopped in front of an incubator in the neo-natal unit during a tour. An African American infant's head is seen in the incubator and an unidentified white female...
Ned Smull giving a tour for Carolyn Reid Bond
Dr. Ned Smull showing Carolyn Reid Bond an African American infant in an incubator during a tour of the hospital. Another, unidentified, white woman is standing with the group. Mrs. Bond is holding a...
Nurse (or doctor) attaching electrodes to infant
White female nurse or doctor attaching electrodes to a white infant boy's back as he's lying in a small station of the neonatal care unit. Patient's last name and initials on label on the station and...
Nurse (or doctor) listening to an infant's heart
Infant white boy being treated by a white female nurse or doctor at an infant station in the neonatal care unit. She's listening to his chest with a stethoscope and there's medical equipment all...
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.
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...
Nurses around a model infant during a mass casualty drill
Nurses (African American woman and white woman) and a white female physician gathered around a model infant lying on a gurney during a mass casualty drill. The white female nurse has her back to the...
Pediatric resident holding a baby boy
Pediatric resident Kathleen Shaffer sitting in a chair holding a tiny African American baby boy. She has one hand on his chin as if examining him. Medical devices seen in the background.
Physician examining an infant lying on a table
Unidentified white male doctor examining white infant patient on an examining table with a stethoscope.