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Delivering books to the children at Christmas

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One little white girl sitting on a white female nurse's lap and another small African American child in wheelchair receiving presents and books from a...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Dr. Smull and Ilus Davis talking with a mother and child

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Dr. Ned Smull in a lab coat leaning over a table with Kansas City mayor Ilus Davis to talk with a mother and her daughter (both white) in one of the...

Date Published
December-23-1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Dr. Smull showing Ilus Davis a ward of children

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Dr. Ned Smull in a lab coat standing with Kansas City mayor Ilus Davis in one of the hospitals wards. A young white girl is seated across from them in...

Date Published
December-23-1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Governor Hearnes speaking

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Governor Warren Hearnes speaking at a podium during the dedication ceremony for the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. Seated behind Hearnes in...

Date Published
May-09-1968
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Ilus Davis with unidentified doctors and businessmen

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Ilus Davis, mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, standing with unidentified doctors and businessmen (all white men). An older white woman is standing on...

Date Published
December-01-1967
December-31-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Mayor Ilus Davis speaking

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Kansas City mayor Ilus Davis speaking at a podium during the dedication ceremony for the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. Seen behind Davis in...

Date Published
May-09-1968
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Ned Smull and Ilus Davis speaking during a Christmas donation

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Dr. Ned Smull holding a white baby while speaking with Ilus Davis, Mayor (likely) during a donation of gifts and clothing to the hospital at Christmas...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Support Committee for Public Accommodations Act in Kansas City, Mo.

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Support Committee for the Public Accommodations Act in Kansas City, Missouri. Back row: Leon Jordan, unidentified man. Middle row: unidentified man...

Date Published
1963
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Support Committee for Public Accommodations Act in Kansas City, Mo.

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Support Committee for the Public Accommodations Act in Kansas City, Missouri. Back row: Leon Jordan, unidentified man. Middle row: unidentified man...

Date Published
1963
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection
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  • Snapshots
  • Davis, Ilus W., 1917-1996

Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (7)
  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (9)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (9)
  • Gelatin silver prints (9)
  • Group portraits (9)
  • Portrait photographs (2)
  • (-) Snapshots (9)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (9)

Subjects

  • Mayors (7)
  • Men, White (7)
  • Children, White (5)
  • Physicians (5)
  • Women, White (5)
  • Children--Hospital care (4)
  • Hospital patients (4)
  • African American children (3)
  • African American politicians (2)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (2)
  • Gifts (2)
  • Girls (2)
  • Governors (2)
  • Hospital administrators (2)
  • Judges (2)
  • Lectures and lecturing (2)
  • Mothers and daughters (2)
  • Nurses (2)
  • Books (1)
  • Businessmen (1)
  • Charity (1)
  • Children's clothing (1)
  • Christmas decorations (1)
  • Christmas trees (1)
  • Infants (1)
  • Intravenous therapy--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Intravenous therapy for children (1)
  • Medical instruments and apparatus (1)
  • Older women (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (2)

Subjects, People

  • Smull, Ned (3)
  • Hearnes, Warren E. (Warren Eastman), 1923-2009 (2)
  • Holliday, Harold L., Sr., 1918-1985 (2)
  • Holliday, Margaret (2)
  • Jordan, Leon M. (Leon Mercer), 1905-1970 (2)
  • Jordan, Orchid, 1910-1995 (2)
  • Sutherland, Herman R. (2)
  • Swinton, Lee Vertis, 1922-1994 (2)
  • Watkins, Bruce R. (Bruce Riley), 1924-1980 (2)
  • Watkins, Rhae (2)
  • Gregg, Joseph Boon, 1913-1995 (1)
  • Wheeler, Charles B. (Charles Bertan), 1926- (1)
  • (-) Davis, Ilus W., 1917-1996 (9)

Date Published

  • 1961 (2)
  • 1963 (2)
  • 1965-12-23 (2)
  • 1968-05-09 (2)
  • 1970 (2)
  • 1967-12-01 (1)
  • 1967-12-31 (1)

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