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Adults and child patients at the Wendy Ward Christmas Party

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Adults and child patients (all white execpt an African American girl seated) at the Wendy Ward Christmas Party. A row of young children are sitting in...

Date Published
December-10-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Century Club members with Santa Claus

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Group of white women members of the Century Club gathered together with Santa Claus. Some are sitting, others standing and a few are holding gifts...

Date Published
December-01-1965
December-31-1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children and nurses with Santa Claus

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Children (African American and white) and nurses (African American and white women) with Santa Claus (white) at Jerry Smith's "Christmas Village USA."...

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

Christmas decorations in front of the hospital's entrance

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A large Santa's sleigh and reindeer mounted in front of the hospital's entrance on Independence Avenue. The sleigh is set on a tall platform and the...

Date Published
December-01-1965
December-31-1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Christmas party at Children's Mercy Hospital

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Christmas party at Children's Mercy Hospital held in the children's playroom at the 1710 Independence Avenue building. Santa (white) is standing in...

Date Published
December-01-1934
December-31-1934
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Dr. Drew playing Santa

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Dr. Drew playing Santa Claus and speaking with nurse Betty Wetzel (right) and an unidentified white female nurse (left). Both nurses are laughing.

Date Published
December-01-1965
December-31-1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Eleven women sing during the Posada del Sol Christmas party for retirees

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Eleven Mexican American women and one Mexican American baby stand around a Christmas tree and behind a table with a Santa Claus on it and sing during...

Date Published
1989
Member of
MANA de Kansas City Collection

Elves, Santa, and Mrs. Claus visit a boy

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Santa and Mrs. Claus (both white) along with two elves (both white) visiting a young white boy during the Hallmark Christmas party at Children's Mercy...

Date Published
December-01-1964
December-31-1964
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Frame cover around the photograph in My Visit with Santa

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Inside of the card the frame around the photograph of two young African American boys visiting with a Santa Claus, who is a white man, has a red...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
My Visit with Santa card front and frame cover

Gift is given during a Posada del Sol Christmas party for retirees

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A gift is given to Pauline Mischandes by three Mexican American women as they stand in front of a Christmas tree and behind a table with Santa Claus...

Date Published
1989
Member of
MANA de Kansas City Collection

Jerry Cohen, Charles Wheeler, and Santa Claus

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Jerry Cohen, general manager of the Mayor's Christmas Tree Association; Charles Wheeler, mayor of Kansas City; and Santa Claus (white) standing left...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

John O'Donoghue playing Santa

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John O'Donoghue, Kansas City Athletics pitcher, playing Santa Claus and entertaining patients at the Wendy Ward Party at Children's Mercy Hospital. He...

Date Published
December-19-1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

John O'Donoghue playing Santa

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John O'Donoghue, Kansas City Athletics pitcher, playing Santa Claus and entertaining African American girls in wheelchairs. They are all holding onto...

Date Published
December-19-1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Keystone Cop style clown holding young boy

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Keystone Cop style clown (white man) holding a young white boy with Mr. and Mrs. Claus (both white) nearby during the Christmas party. Mrs. Claus has...

Date Published
December-01-1966
December-31-1966
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Kids with plastic Santas

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Group of boys (white) and girls (two white and an African American girl in a wheelchair) in a circle around two identical facing plastic Santa statues...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Margaret Weaver dancing with Santa

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Margaret Weaver, Board President, wearing a volunteer uniform and dancing with Santa Claus (white male). An African American child in a wheelchair is...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Mazine Alvarez hands a gift to a another during a MANA de Kansas City holiday event

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Three Mexican American women stand in front of a Christmas tree as the woman on the left, Mazine Alvarez, hands a gift to the woman on the right. The...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
MANA de Kansas City Collection

Mazine Alvarez shares a gift to a another during a MANA de Kansas City holiday event

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Four Mexican American women stand in front of a Christmas tree as a woman second from the left, Mazine Alvarez, hands a gift to the woman on the right...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
MANA de Kansas City Collection

Meeting Santa Claus

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Santa Claus (white man) reaching down with his hand out to a white girl toddler in the lobby of Children's Mercy Hospital during the mayor's Christmas...

Date Published
December-01-1974
December-31-1974
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Mexican American women perform during a MANA de Kansas City event

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Many Mexican American women read from sheets of paper as they perform at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City holiday event at Posada del Sol. A...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
MANA de Kansas City Collection

Mr. and Mrs. Claus entertaining patients

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Santa and Mrs. Claus (both white) entertaining patients (African American and white), nurses, and staff (white women seen) in the lobby during a...

Date Published
December-01-1966
December-31-1966
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Mr. and Mrs. Claus visiting patients

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Santa Claus & Mrs. Claus (both white) with accordion visiting a white patient in one of the hospital wards. An unidentified white woman next to Santa...

Date Published
December-01-1966
December-31-1966
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

My visit with Santa

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Two young African American boys visit with Santa Claus, who is played by a white man, has a red poinsettia on the top center and a red and white house...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
My Visit with Santa card front and frame cover

My Visit with Santa card front and frame cover

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Photograph: Two young African American boys visit with a Santa Claus, who is a white man, has a red poinsettia on the top center and a red and white...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Nurse Erma Gutowski kissing Santa Claus

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Dr. Drew as Santa Claus being kissed on the forehead by Erma Gutowski, RN, Children's Mercy Hospital. Santa is looking coyly at the camera.

Date Published
December-19-1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

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Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (64)
  • MANA de Kansas City Collection (10)
  • My Visit with Santa card front and frame cover (2)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (77)

Genres

  • Snapshots (74)
  • Black & white photographs (62)
  • Gelatin silver prints (62)
  • Color photographs (15)
  • Architectural photographs (1)
  • (-) Group portraits (77)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (50)
  • 1951-1960 (7)
  • 1971-1980 (5)
  • 1981-1990 (3)
  • 1931-1940 (2)

Subjects

  • Men, White (58)
  • Women, White (47)
  • Children, White (46)
  • Children--Hospital care (46)
  • Hospital patients (46)
  • Christmas (36)
  • Boys (28)
  • African American children (27)
  • Girls (26)
  • Costume (23)
  • Christmas decorations (22)
  • Gifts (18)
  • Nurses (18)
  • Wheelchairs (15)
  • Hospital beds (13)
  • Bells (12)
  • Hispanic American women (10)
  • Mexican American women (10)
  • African American women (9)
  • Hospitals--Employees (7)
  • Accordionists (5)
  • Older women (5)
  • Accordion (4)
  • Bandages and bandaging (4)
  • Christmas trees (4)
  • Dolls (4)
  • Horses (4)
  • Physicians (4)
  • Toys (4)
  • Clowns (3)
  • Hospital administrators (3)
  • Singing (3)
  • Stairs (3)
  • Toddlers (3)
  • African American men (2)
  • Audiences (2)
  • Buildings (2)
  • Charities (2)
  • Christmas cards (2)
  • Christmas stockings (2)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (2)
  • Infants (2)
  • Mexican Americans (2)
  • Orthopedic traction (2)
  • Parties (2)
  • Pitchers (Baseball) (2)
  • Professional athletes (2)
  • Stained glass windows (2)
  • Statues (2)
  • Amputees (1)
  • Books (1)
  • Businessmen (1)
  • Combs (1)
  • Conversation (1)
  • Crutches (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Elves (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Hispanic American children (1)
  • Hispanic American men (1)
  • Hospital buildings (1)
  • Kissing (1)
  • Lobbies (Rooms) (1)
  • Masks (1)
  • Mayors (1)
  • Men (1)
  • Mothers and daughters (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Older men (1)
  • Philanthropists (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Plates (Tableware) (1)
  • Reindeer (1)
  • Service stations (1)
  • Shopping bags (1)
  • Sleighs (1)
  • Soldiers (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Stuffed animals (Toys) (1)
  • Surgical plaster casts (1)
  • Toy horses (1)
  • Trucks--Models (1)
  • Volunteer workers in hospitals (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Independence Avenue, Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Alvarez, Mazine (6)
  • Galaviz, DaLinda (4)
  • Jaramillo, Mary Lou (4)
  • Weaver, Margaret (3)
  • Castro-Martinez, Dina Rodriguez, 1932-2018 (2)
  • De la Rosa, Doris (2)
  • Mendez, Felicia (2)
  • Cohen, Jerry (Businessman) (1)
  • Gutowski, Erma (1)
  • Hart, Jane (Musician) (1)
  • Miranda, Annalisa (1)
  • Mischandes, Pauline (1)
  • Paxton, Bob (1)
  • Pirtle, Charles Wesley (1)
  • Quiroz, Mary (1)
  • Rodriguez, Beatrice (Of Kansas City, Mo.) (1)
  • Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer (Fictitious character) (1)
  • Wetzel, Betty (Nurse) (1)
  • Wheeler, Charles B. (Charles Bertan), 1926- (1)
  • (-) Santa Claus (Fictitious character) (77)

Date Published

  • 1966-12-01 (12)
  • 1966-12-31 (12)
  • 1967-12-10 (11)
  • 1964-12-01 (7)
  • 1964-12-31 (7)
  • 1981 (7)
  • 1990 (7)
  • 1951 (6)
  • 1960 (6)
  • 1965-12-01 (5)
  • 1965-12-31 (5)
  • 1967-12-22 (5)
  • 1965-12-19 (4)
  • 1967-12-01 (3)
  • 1967-12-31 (3)
  • 1971 (3)
  • 1980 (3)
  • 1987 (3)
  • 1934-12-01 (2)
  • 1934-12-31 (2)
  • 1961 (2)
  • 1965-12-23 (2)
  • 1970 (2)
  • 1974-12-01 (2)
  • 1974-12-31 (2)
  • 1989 (2)
  • 1991 (1)
  • 2000 (1)

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