Ken Curtis visiting a toddler in a high chair
Ken Curtis dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke crouched down and talking to a young white boy patient in a high chair with a tray as African American and white female nurses and another...
Ken Curtis visiting a toddler in his crib
Ken Curtis dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke, hat off, bent over to visit with a white boy toddler in his crib.
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.
Keystone Cop style clown holding young boy
Keystone Cop style clown (white man) holding a young white boy with Mr. and Mrs. Claus (both white) nearby during the Christmas party. Mrs. Claus has her accordion.
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 boy on a hospital bed
Smiling young white boy in a striped shirt kneeling on a hospital bed or gurney. He's holding something in his hands.
Laying the corner stone
Left to right are Katharine B. Richardson, Anna Allen, and Dr. C.B. Francisco gathered together with young patients and former patients (white girls and boys) to lay the cornerstone for the new...
Lena Dagley with patients
Lena Dagley with patients and other women (all white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Dagley is sitting at talking with three other women. A male and female patient are on the right. A photo of the...
Lena Dagley, Elmira Collins, and Mary Becker
Lena Dagley, Executive Secretary of Children's Mercy Hospital; Elmira Collins, President of the Women's Chamber of Commerce; and Mary Becker, Chairman of the Women's Chamber of Commerce Birthday Fund...
Lily Tomlin signing a book for a child
Lily Tomlin in a Children's Mercy Hospital Ward signing a book for young white boy patient seated at a table and looking over at Tomlin.
Lily Tomlin signing a book for a child playing a game
Lily Tomlin in a Children's Mercy Hospital Ward signing a book for a young boy patient hooked up to medical monitors. An unidentified white man is sitting in a nearby chair holding game money in his...
Listening to his heart
White male doctor, intern, or nurse listening to an African American boy's chest with a stethoscope. The boy is shirtless and seated on an examination table in front of a window with the man seated...
Margaret Reeble with young patient
Margaret Reeble, a female white nurse at Children's Mercy Hospital, looking over a young white male patient laying on a bed. A heart monitoring device is attached to the child's chest. Reeble is...
Marylane Thorne helping students study
Teacher Marylane Thorne standing between two hospital beds helping the boys in them to do their lessons. The boy in front of Thorne is African American, and the boy behind is white with eyeglasses...
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...
Marylane Thorne with students
Marylane Thorne speaking with an African American boy student in the hospital's classroom. Five students (Two African American boys, one African American girl, two white boys) are shown seated at...
Medical staff examining a patient during a disaster preparedness drill
Emergency medical personnel (white men and women and one man who is possibly Latino) standing around the litter of a young boy with paperwork and envelope laying on his stomach during a disaster...
Members of the Kansas City Athletics visiting a patient
Members of the Kansas City Athletics baseball team (all white men) visiting a white boy patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. Gus Nichols, Jim Walker, Dan Pfister, Jim Archer, and Wayne Causey are...
Members of the Kiwanis Club presenting a check
Eight members (all white) of the Kiwanis Club from Clinton, Missouri, presenting a check to Lena Dagley at Children's Mercy Hospital. They are standing in a room on the fourth floor with two young...
Members of the Young Americans Choir
Members of the Young Americans Choir singing in a hospital room at Children's Mercy Hospital. The choir members (men and women, all white except for one African American man leaning against the end of...
Members of the Young Americans Choir
Members of the Young Americans Choir singing in a hospital room at Children's Mercy Hospital. The choir members (men and women, all white except for one African American man) are standing around a...
Miller Nichols with a plaque on the Plaza
From left, Mary Panzero (President of the Century Club), young white boy patient with leg braces, Laurie Seidlitz, Junior Volunteer, another young white boy patient, an unidentified white man and...
Miss Fenner with child
Nurse Fenner standing next to a small white boy standing on a low concrete wall. He's trying to hide his face in her skirts.
Miss U.S.A visits a patient
Miss U.S.A., Bobbi Johnson, delivering Kansas City Athletics megaphones to a young white boy in sitting up in a hospital bed with leg and arm injuries. Both looking over at the camera and smiling.