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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

Christmas window display

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View of a Christmas window display from behind during the Children's Mercy Hospital KCAHA Volunteer Recognition Dinner. Pine cones, angels, and a...

Date Published
December-01-1987
December-31-1987
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Christmas window display from behind

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View of a Christmas window display from behind during the Children's Mercy Hospital KCAHA Volunteer Recognition Dinner. Pine cones, a Santa figurine...

Date Published
December-01-1987
December-31-1987
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

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

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

Large Santa statue

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Life sized Santa statue next to a Christmas tree with wrapped presents at his feet at the Children's Mercy Hospital Annual Christmas Party.

Date Published
December-18-1997
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

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

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

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

Nurse Gutowski in the Christmas spirit

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Erma Gutowski, RN, wearing a Santa hat and standing next to a large Santa Claus statue. Alphabet posters are on the doors behind them.

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

People standing outdoors around Santa Claus

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People (all white) standing outdoors around Santa Claus at the Wendy Ward Christmas Party. The crowd of adults and children are looking at Santa Claus...

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

Santa and a Christmas Tree visiting a patient

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Santa Claus (white man) and someone wearing an elaborate Christmas Tree costume visiting a white patient in their hospital bed.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Santa and his helpers giving out presents

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Santa Claus (white) handing out presents to children (white and African American) at Children's Mercy Hospital with the help of Charles Wesley Pirtle...

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

Santa and Mrs. Claus in the lobby

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Santa Claus (white man) holding his sleigh bells and Mrs. Santa (white woman) with her accordion entertaining people off camera in the lobby of...

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

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  • (-) Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (72)

Types

  • photographs (72)

Genres

  • Snapshots (72)
  • Group portraits (64)
  • Black & white photographs (60)
  • Gelatin silver prints (60)
  • Color photographs (12)
  • Portrait photographs (5)
  • Architectural photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (50)
  • 1951-1960 (5)
  • 1971-1980 (5)
  • 1981-1990 (5)
  • 1991-2000 (5)
  • 1931-1940 (2)

Subjects

  • Men, White (58)
  • Women, White (52)
  • Children, White (46)
  • Children--Hospital care (46)
  • Hospital patients (46)
  • Christmas decorations (30)
  • Christmas (28)
  • Boys (25)
  • Girls (25)
  • African American children (24)
  • Costume (23)
  • Nurses (19)
  • Gifts (15)
  • Wheelchairs (15)
  • Hospital beds (13)
  • Bells (12)
  • African American women (9)
  • Christmas trees (8)
  • Statues (8)
  • Hospitals--Employees (7)
  • Older women (6)
  • Accordionists (5)
  • Volunteer workers in hospitals (5)
  • Accordion (4)
  • Bandages and bandaging (4)
  • Dolls (4)
  • Horses (4)
  • Physicians (4)
  • Toys (4)
  • Clowns (3)
  • Hospital administrators (3)
  • Stairs (3)
  • Toddlers (3)
  • African American men (2)
  • Audiences (2)
  • Buildings (2)
  • Charities (2)
  • Christmas stockings (2)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (2)
  • Infants (2)
  • Name tags (2)
  • Orthopedic traction (2)
  • Parties (2)
  • Pine cones (2)
  • Pitchers (Baseball) (2)
  • Professional athletes (2)
  • Show windows (2)
  • Stained glass windows (2)
  • Amputees (1)
  • Angels (1)
  • Books (1)
  • Businessmen (1)
  • Combs (1)
  • Conversation (1)
  • Crutches (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Elves (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Figurines (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Hospital buildings (1)
  • Kissing (1)
  • Lobbies (Rooms) (1)
  • Masks (1)
  • Mayors (1)
  • Microcomputers (1)
  • Mothers and daughters (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Office furniture (1)
  • Older men (1)
  • Philanthropists (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Pin-back buttons (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)

Subjects, Geographic

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

Subjects, People

  • Weaver, Margaret (3)
  • Gutowski, Erma (2)
  • Cohen, Jerry (Businessman) (1)
  • Hart, Jane (Musician) (1)
  • Johnson, Marian (1)
  • Paxton, Bob (1)
  • Pirtle, Charles Wesley (1)
  • Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer (Fictitious character) (1)
  • Wetzel, Betty (Nurse) (1)
  • Wheeler, Charles B. (Charles Bertan), 1926- (1)
  • (-) Santa Claus (Fictitious character) (72)

Date Published

  • 1966-12-01 (12)
  • 1966-12-31 (12)
  • 1967-12-10 (11)
  • 1964-12-01 (7)
  • 1964-12-31 (7)
  • 1965-12-01 (5)
  • 1965-12-31 (5)
  • 1967-12-22 (5)
  • 1951 (4)
  • 1960 (4)
  • 1965-12-19 (4)
  • 1967-12-01 (3)
  • 1967-12-31 (3)
  • 1971 (3)
  • 1980 (3)
  • 1981 (3)
  • 1990 (3)
  • 1997-01-09 (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)
  • 1987-12-01 (2)
  • 1987-12-31 (2)
  • 1996-12-14 (1)
  • 1997-12-18 (1)

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