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Agnes Messersmith with her son

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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

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

Charlie Parker and his half-brother John (Ikey) sitting in a field

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Charlie Parker as a toddler with his half-brother John, known as Ikey, sitting side by side in a grassy field; Ikey is wearing a tie; Parker is...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Jay McShann 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

Harriet West helping young child on a tricycle

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Nurse Harriet West (likely) crouching down to help young African American boy riding a tricycle on the outdoor patio.

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

Harriet West with two boys

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Nurse Harriet West crouching on the patio speaking with two toddler boys. The white boy is standing and the African American boy is on a tricycle.

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

Harriet West with two boys

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Nurse Harriet West on the patio with two toddler boys. The white boy is standing and the African American boy is on a tricycle. West is crouched down...

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

Nurse and boy outside near windows

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Unidentified white female nurse sitting on a window ledge between two windows outside of Children's Mercy Hospital. A young white boy patient is...

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

Nurse Andy with boy

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Nurse Andy with a little white boy wearing a beanie cap and a cast on both hands on the lawn of the hospital. Andy is seated and the boy is holding on...

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

Nurse Deskins with young children on the patio

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Nurse Deskins bent over to help two toddlers (African American and white boys) trying to ride a tricycle on the outdoor patio. Two other white...

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

Nurse Deskins with young children on the patio

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Nurse Deskins on an outdoor patio with young children. Two white boys are standing and an African American boy is on a tricycle.

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

Nurse Deskins with young children on the patio

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Nurse Deskins on the patio with children (white girls and boys). One is standing, another in a wheelchair, and Deskins is helping one who has fallen.

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

Nurse Deskins with young children on the patio

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Nurse Deskins with young patients (one African American boy, the rest white girls and boys) on the patio of Children's Mercy Hospital. The child in...

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

Nurse with boy at the door

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Young white boy with white hat, coat, and using crutches standing outside a door talking to the white female nurse that's just opened the door.

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

Nurse with children

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Nurse Deskins crouching down with arms around two unidentified white boys in an outside courtyard. One child's face is turned away from the camera.

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

Nurse with children

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Nurse Deskins crouching down with arms around two unidentified white boys in an outside courtyard.

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

Nurse with children on the entrance stairs

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Young patients (all white girls and boys), one in a wheelchair, with two white female nurses gathered on the hospital's front steps for a group photo.

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

Peeking in the windows

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Young white boy with white hat and coat and using crutches standing outside the window of a hospital door, peeking in using his hands as shade.

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

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...

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

Three children with an older man

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An unidentified older African American man sits outside of a home with awnings in a patio chair holding a baby and flanked by two other kids in short...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Women and children at a display of canning

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Unidentified Women's Auxiliary holding a sale of home canned goods with ten white women standing under a striped canopy, three white women sitting in...

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

Young boy ringing the hospital doorbell

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Young white boy on crutches wearing knickers, a sweater, and a cap ringing the doorbell of Children's Mercy Hospital.

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

Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (20)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (1)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (22)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (22)
  • Gelatin silver prints (22)
  • Snapshots (21)
  • Group portraits (19)
  • Portrait photographs (3)

Time Periods

  • 1921-1930 (21)
  • 1931-1940 (1)

Subjects

  • Children, White (19)
  • Children--Hospital care (18)
  • Hospital patients (18)
  • Women, White (16)
  • Nurses (15)
  • African American children (8)
  • Tricycles (6)
  • Toddlers (5)
  • Girls (4)
  • Crutches (3)
  • Doors (3)
  • Hospital buildings (3)
  • Wheelchairs (2)
  • African American men (1)
  • Awnings (1)
  • Bandages and bandaging (1)
  • Barrels (1)
  • Brothers (1)
  • Bruises (1)
  • Canning and preserving (1)
  • Canning and preserving--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Children with disabilities (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Hospital beds (1)
  • Infants (1)
  • Men, White (1)
  • Mothers and sons (1)
  • Older men (1)
  • Orthopedic braces (1)
  • Physical therapy--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Physical therapy for children (1)
  • Physicians (1)
  • Racially mixed children (1)
  • Stairs (1)
  • Surgical plaster casts (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • Wagons (1)
  • Windows (1)
  • (-) Boys (22)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (14)

Subjects, People

  • West, Harriet (3)
  • Messersmith, Agnes (1)
  • Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955 (1)
  • Parker, John Anthony (Ikey) (1)

Date Published

  • 1921 (22)
  • (-) 1930 (22)

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