Adults and a young girl in arm and leg braces at the Open House
Adults (all white) and a young white girl at the Open House for the new building at Children's Mercy Hospital. The girl is walking with leg braces and crutches. She is dressed in a winter coat and cap...
Boy with leg braces and crutches outside a school
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...
Child with crutch lying down
White girl at Children's Mercy Hospital lying on a wooden bench with a pillow under her head holding a crutch by her side posing for the photo. Any other context for this shot is not known. Both legs...
Children in costumes in a ward
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...
Children in the hospital classroom
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...
Cinderella visiting patients
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...
Dr. Thomas Schmidt with patient
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.
Girl in a mask in a wheelchair
African American girl patient with leg braces seated in a wheelchair and wearing a mask. An African American boy is in the background.
Icee the Bear entertaining boys and girls
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...
Infants and young patients eating
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...
Lobby Christmas party for the children
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...
Marilyn Maye and Mike Murphy sitting in a classroom with children
Marilyn Maye sitting in a classroom with children (African American and white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Maye is sitting in the center while young boys and girls sit in a circle around her. Radio...
Mickey Mouse interacting with young patients
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...
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...
Nurse with a boy in body and leg braces
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...
Reg Carolan with young girl
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.
Shawsie Branton with young girl
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.
Three boys in body braces
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.
Three young patients looking at a man at Children's Mercy Hospital
Three young white girl patients looking up at a an unidentified white man in a room at Children's Mercy Hospital. The girl on the left is holding crutches and has leg braces. The girl in the middle is...
Unidentified actor and actress sitting with young boys and girls
An unidentified white actor and white actress sitting with young boys and girls (all white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Several of the patients are sitting in wheelchairs and one is on a hospital...
Unidentified female nurse sitting with two boys
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...
Unidentified woman visiting a young male patient
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...
Woman speaking to a group of children with presents
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...
Young boy surrounded by clowns
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.
Young boy walking with crutches and leg braces
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...