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Advertisement for Chic's 14 Pla-Mors

Image

Photographic print of shamrock-shaped advertisement for "Chic's 14 Pla-Mors" (also known as Chic Scoggin and his Pla-Mor Orchestra) with framed...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection

Agnes Messersmith with her son

Image

Agnes Messersmith holding her son while outside near some trees. She's wearing a heavy coat.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

An unidentified woman and an unidentified man at "The Scout" statue at Penn Valley Park

Image

"The Scout" statue surrounded by fencing; an unidentified woman and an unidentified man stand in foreground at Penn Valley Park, Kansas City, Missouri...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
U.S. Epperson Collection

Bennie and Lizzie in the garden at Marland Estate

Image

Bennie sits on a tacked quarter horse while Lizzie stands to their left with a dog in front of her outside the Marland Estate in the garden or...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Boy pulling on weight equipment

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Young white boy patient sitting on a table holding pulley with no weights attached in the physiotherapy room and is distracted by the photographer.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Brown Chapel A.M.E.

Image

Exterior shot of the Brown Chapel A.M.E. in Parsons, Kansas.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Bundled up woman standing in the snow in the yard in front of a house

Image

An unidentified African American woman bundled up in a plush winter coat with a fur collar, boots, and a hat stands without smiling in the snow in the...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Chevrolet Coupe

Image

An unidentified African American woman behind the wheel of a 1920s Chevrolet Coupe on brick pavement. Trees are behind the car.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Chic Scoggin and his Pla-Mor Orchestra performing

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Chic Scoggin and his Pla-Mor Orchestra performing on stage.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection

Chic Scoggin and ten unidentified members of his band

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Chic Scoggin (middle, right, leaning over phonograph) and ten unidentified members of his band; listening to a record in an unidentified room.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection

Child in a high chair outside

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White toddler girl outside in a high chair with a tray looking up into the sky. Flowers are under the high chair.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Child in the water tank for therapy

Image

Young white patient suspended in a water tank by a harness for physiotherapy. The child's back is to the camera and there's a screen along the side of...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children and nurse in physical therapy

Image

White female nurse with three young patients (two white girls, the third possibly Southeast Asian, sex indeterminate) in the physical therapy unit...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children and nurse in the physical therapy room

Image

Unidentified white female nurse working with young patients in the physiotherapy room. One white girl is lying on a table, a white boy standing with...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children playing in a hospital ward

Image

Three white female nurses in a hospital ward with white girl toddlers engaged in various play activities on the floor between rows of beds. A stained...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children playing in a toy wagon

Image

An unidentified African American child in the front of a toy wagon, likely an "American Coaster" has a big grin as the unidentified African American...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Children playing in the Junior League Playroom

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Children (one African American boy, the rest white boys and girls) playing in the Junior League Playroom at Children's Mercy Hospital supervised by...

Date Published
1921
1925
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Clinic entrance from the west

Image

View of the Children's Mercy Hospital's clinic entrance from the west side and from and elevated spot. Snow is covering the ground.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Cornelia in the garden

Image

Neal [Cornelia Scott], an African American woman, is slightly bent while she is standing in a field of flowers in a casual, sleeveless floral dress...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Cornelia sits on a wall in a garden with a friend

Image

Neal [Cornelia Scott], with her left arm around a dog, sits on a rock wall to the right of an unidentified African American woman standing in an...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Cribs on a porch

Image

Cribs in a row, with infants, on a porch on the third floor baby ward at Children's Mercy Hospital.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Decorative elephant statue and two Pekingese dogs outside Epperson House

Image

Color-tinted photo of decorative elephant statue displayed on outside Epperson House; two Pekingese dogs are on the left and right.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
U.S. Epperson Collection

Decorative elephant statues in Epperson House

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Close-up of decorative elephant statues in the "Elephant Room" of Epperson House.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
U.S. Epperson Collection

Doctors and nurses performing surgery

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Doctors (white, men) and nurses (white, women) performing surgery in an operating room at the Children's Mercy Hospital building at 1710 Independence...

Date Published
1921
1925
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Doctors and nurses with patients in a ward

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Doctors (white men) and nurses (white women) attending to patients (white girls and boys) in a ward of the hospital. Many hospital beds and a wagon...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

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Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (113)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (65)
  • U.S. Epperson Collection (19)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (16)
  • Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection (14)
  • Walt Bodine Collection (3)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (2)
  • Helen Xarhis-DePasco Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (233)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (233)
  • Gelatin silver prints (233)
  • Group portraits (121)
  • Portrait photographs (89)
  • Architectural photographs (13)
  • Cityscape photographs (8)
  • Portraits (3)
  • (-) Snapshots (233)

Time Periods

  • 1921-1930 (215)
  • 1911-1920 (2)
  • 1931-1940 (1)

Subjects

  • Women, White (77)
  • Nurses (66)
  • African American women (56)
  • Children, White (55)
  • Children--Hospital care (54)
  • Hospital patients (53)
  • African American men (40)
  • Girls (30)
  • Hospital buildings (30)
  • Boys (22)
  • Men, White (21)
  • Buildings (18)
  • Physicians (17)
  • African American children (16)
  • Hats (14)
  • Automobiles (13)
  • Toddlers (13)
  • Architecture, Domestic (11)
  • Snow (10)
  • Stairs (10)
  • Dwellings (9)
  • Infants (9)
  • Crutches (8)
  • Shrubs (8)
  • Tricycles (8)
  • Dogs (7)
  • Hospital beds (7)
  • Physical therapy--Equipment and supplies (7)
  • Physical therapy for children (7)
  • Surgical nursing (7)
  • Trees (7)
  • Bathing suits (6)
  • Big bands (5)
  • Church buildings (5)
  • Streets (5)
  • Bandages and bandaging (4)
  • Benches (4)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (4)
  • Dolls (4)
  • Doors (4)
  • Elephants in art (4)
  • Gardens (4)
  • Hospitals--Employees (4)
  • Hydrotherapy for children (4)
  • Signs and signboards (4)
  • Student nurses (4)
  • Toys (4)
  • Wheelchairs (4)
  • Automobile dealers (3)
  • Bodies of water (3)
  • Children (3)
  • Children's furniture (3)
  • Desks (3)
  • Hospital administrators (3)
  • Medical instruments and apparatus (3)
  • Operating rooms (3)
  • Otolaryngologists (3)
  • Playgrounds (3)
  • Playgrounds--Equipment and supplies (3)
  • Roller-skating rinks (3)
  • Surgical plaster casts (3)
  • Tables (3)
  • Umbrellas (3)
  • Uniforms (3)
  • Women household employees (3)
  • Autoclaves (2)
  • Bags (2)
  • Balls (Sporting goods) (2)
  • Beaches (2)
  • Cameras (2)
  • Cigars (2)
  • Couples (2)
  • Dinners and dining (2)
  • Elephants (2)
  • Fezzes (2)
  • Fraternal organizations (2)
  • Fur garments (2)
  • Granddaughters (2)
  • Hospitals (2)
  • Lakes (2)
  • Mirrors (2)
  • Native American men (2)
  • Older men (2)
  • Operating room nurses (2)
  • Organ (Musical instrument) (2)
  • Orthopedic braces (2)
  • Pekingese dog (2)
  • Play (2)
  • Porches (2)
  • Quarter horse (2)
  • Rocking chairs (2)
  • Secretaries (2)
  • Sheep (2)
  • Sidewalks (2)
  • Statues (2)
  • Stone walls (2)
  • Surgeons (2)
  • Surgical instruments and apparatus (2)
  • Trellises (2)
  • Wagons (2)
  • Women's clothing (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • Actresses (1)
  • African American jazz musicians (1)
  • Animal trainers (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Automobiles, Convertible (1)
  • Automobiles--Models (1)
  • Awnings (1)
  • Baby rattles (1)
  • Barrels (1)
  • Battlefield monuments (1)
  • Bowling alleys (1)
  • Bridges (1)
  • Bruises (1)
  • Cake decorating (1)
  • Canning and preserving (1)
  • Canning and preserving--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Canoes and canoeing (1)
  • Carpets (1)
  • Children with disabilities (1)
  • Cigarette smokers (1)
  • Circus animals (1)
  • Cities and towns (1)
  • Clerks (1)
  • Cooks (1)
  • Dermatologists (1)
  • Docks (1)
  • Driveways (1)
  • Electric lamps (1)
  • Exhibit booths (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Fishers (1)
  • Flags (1)
  • Flowering trees (1)
  • Flowers (1)
  • Furniture (1)
  • Grandfathers (1)
  • Grandmothers (1)
  • Hospital libraries (1)
  • Housemothers (1)
  • Industrial chimneys (1)
  • Interns (Medicine) (1)
  • Jazz musicians (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Kissing (1)
  • Lawn chairs (1)
  • Libraries (1)
  • Mansions (1)
  • Mothers and sons (1)
  • Nursing students (1)
  • Office furniture (1)
  • Offices (1)
  • Operating room nursing (1)
  • Pampas grasses (1)
  • Parking lots (1)
  • Parks (1)
  • Physical therapists (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Ponies (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Roofs (1)
  • Sheds (1)
  • Soft drinks (1)
  • Southeast Asians (1)
  • Stained glass windows (1)
  • Sun-baths (1)
  • Surgery (1)
  • Sweaters (1)
  • Swings (1)
  • Tents (1)
  • Windows (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (90)
  • Marland Estate (Ponca City, Okla.) (9)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (4)
  • Ponca City (Okla.) (2)
  • Davenport (Iowa) (1)
  • Gettysburg National Military Park (Pa.) (1)
  • Parsons (Kan.) (1)
  • Paseo Boulevard,Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Scott, Cornelia (7)
  • Burman, Mary (5)
  • Fenner, Anna (5)
  • McAllister, Helen Hill (5)
  • Barse, Harriet E. (4)
  • Rafter, Evelyn (4)
  • Scoggin, Chic (4)
  • West, Harriet (4)
  • Bodine, Walt, 1920- (3)
  • Epperson, Mary E. (3)
  • Epperson, Uriah Spray, 1861-1927 (3)
  • Messersmith, Agnes (3)
  • Anderson, Anna (Administrator) (2)
  • Christensen, Helen (Nurse) (2)
  • Tucker, Thad (2)
  • Dagley, Lena (1)
  • Denny, Charles Clayton (1)
  • Logan, Georgia Xarhis, 1915-2000 (1)
  • Osborn, Martha (1)
  • Pleasonton, Alfred, 1824-1897 (1)
  • Richardson, Katharine, 1858-1933 (1)
  • Roberts, Sam (Otolaryngologist) (1)
  • Walters, Helen (Nurse) (1)
  • Xarhis, Frank (1)

Date Published

  • 1930 (219)
  • 1925 (7)
  • 1911 (1)
  • 1917 (1)
  • (-) 1921 (233)

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