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Boy with leg braces and crutches outside a school

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Young white boy with leg braces and crutches standing next to a car with a smashed bumper in front of the Crippled Children's Nursery School and the Offices of the Jackson County Society for Crippled...

Date Published
1971
1980

Child with crutch lying down

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Young white girl at Children's Mercy Hospital lying on a wooden bench with a pillow under her head and a crutch by her side. Both legs are in braces. One leg is bent at the knee and her right arm is...

Date Published
1925-01-01
1925-12-31

Children in costumes in a ward

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African American girl patient in leg braces seated in a wheelchair wearing a mask and cape with hood. An African American boy in a hospital bed beyond her is also wearing a costume of some sort. A...

Date Published
1966-05-01
1966-05-31

Children in the hospital classroom

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Unidentified white female teacher standing at a piano in the hospital's classroom with children (all white girls and boys) lined up in a semi-circle for the photograph. Some children are in...

Date Published
1952-05-28

Cinderella visiting patients

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Cinderella (white) visiting patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. Young girls and boys (white) are sitting on the left with an unidentified white woman. One girl is wearing orthopedic leg braces...

Date Published
1971
1975

Dr. Thomas Schmidt with patient

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Dr. Thomas Schmidt with Orthopedics helping a white boy fit his leg into a plastic brace around his foot and ankle. The boy is seated in a wheelchair.

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

Girl in a mask in a wheelchair

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African American girl patient with leg braces seated in a wheelchair and wearing a mask. An African American boy is in the background.

Date Published
1966-05-01
1966-05-31

Icee the Bear entertaining boys and girls

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Icee the Bear entertaining young boys and girls (African American and white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. The mascot for the 7-Eleven company is holding up a hand-made birthday card in front of boys...

Date Published
1974-07-17

Infants and young patients eating

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Infants and young patients (all white) eating in the baby ward at Children's Mercy Hospital. Three girls are sitting at a small table in the center. Infants and young children with various infirmities...

Date Published
1931
1940

Lobby Christmas party for the children

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Christmas party in the lobby of Children's Mercy Hospital for the patients (all white boys and girls except for one African American child). Nurse Iris Jensen is standing behind the children, many of...

Date Published
1954-01-01
1954-12-31

Mickey Mouse interacting with young patients

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Mickey Mouse interacting with young patients (African American and white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Mickey is kneeling and holding the hand of a young white boy wearing braces. Other boys and...

Date Published
1974-01-01
1974-12-31

Miller Nichols with a plaque on the Plaza

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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...

Date Published
1961
1970

Nurse with a boy in body and leg braces

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White boy patient seated on an examination table with a white female nurse with one hand on his left foot and smiling at him. He's in a torso brace and leg braces and is either removing one leg from...

Date Published
1951
1960

Reg Carolan with young girl

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Reg Carolan of the Kansas City Chiefs visiting with a young white girl in a wheelchair and leg braces. Both are laughing and the girl has something in her hands.

Date Published
1969-06-01
1969-06-30

Shawsie Branton with young girl

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Shawsie Branton, Children's TLC founder, kneeling beside a young white girl in leg braces and crutches. Both are looking at each other and smiling. Children's TLC is now known as Ability KC.

Date Published
1992-01-01
1992-12-31

Three boys in body braces

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Three young white boys in body braces facing a wall. The boys are shirtless and the buttocks of the boy on the left is exposed. All their backs appear bruised.

Date Published
1921
1930

Unidentified female nurse sitting with two boys

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An unidentified white female nurse sitting on stairs with two young white boys. The boy in the middle has leg braces and is sitting near a walker. The boy on the right is holding a toy car and is...

Date Published
1967-12-01
1967-12-31

Unidentified woman visiting a young male patient

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An unidentified white woman visiting a young white male patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. The woman is wearing a dress with floral designs and a beaded choker necklace. She is kneeling and smiling...

Date Published
1951
1960

Woman speaking to a group of children with presents

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Unidentified white woman with a brace on her right leg speaking in front of a group of patients (African American and white girls and boys), almost all in wheelchairs, during the Children's Mercy...

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

Young boy surrounded by clowns

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Young white boy with leg braces seated on the stairs in the lobby with a row of clowns lined up on either side of him. Nine clowns (all seem to be white men) in all. The boy is smiling and at ease.

Date Published
1951
1960

Young boy walking with crutches and leg braces

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Young white boy walking with crutches and leg braces at Children's Mercy Hospital. The boy is looking to the side and is leaning forward on his crutches. There is rehabilitation equipment scattered...

Date Published
1941
1950