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Accordionist playing for young children

Image

White man, kneeling down on the ground, playing an accordion while an African American toddler watches. She is standing in front of a wheelchair...

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

Audience of children and nurses at Halloween

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Audience of children (African American and white) and African American female nurses at Halloween watching a performance outside of the photo. Some...

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

Batter up during a softball game

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Unidentified white male batter at home plate ready to swing with a female catcher behind him during a softball game. She seems to be wearing a baby's...

Date Published
August-04-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Betty McNally and Carol DeCaigny in clown costumes

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Betty McNally and Carol DeCaigny dressed as clowns and talking with an African American girl patient between them on Halloween.

Date Published
October-31-1967
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 adults at a holiday party

Image

Group of boys (African American and white) at a Hallmark Christmas party held at Children's Mercy Hospital. An unidentified man is wearing an elf...

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

Clayton Moore visiting two boy patients

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Clayton Moore visiting two white boy patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. The actor is wearing his costume from the Lone Ranger television show. He...

Date Published
1961
1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Clown entertaining children seated in nurses' laps

Image

Clown (white man) wearing a funny hat crouched down to speak with young patients (African American and white children), some being held by white...

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

Country music ensemble performing for children

Image

Four piece country music band with three guitarists and a fiddle player (all white). They are wearing cowboy attire, performing for patients (African...

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

Country Western musicians performing

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Country Western musicians (all white) performing at Children's Mercy Hospital. One woman is singing into a microphone. Two men are playing guitars...

Date Published
1967
1968
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Dancer doing a handstand

Image

Young white female dancer entertaining patients (African American and white) at a Halloween party by doing a handstand. Patient at the right is on a...

Date Published
October-31-1967
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

Easter Bunny with two children

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Unidentified white man in an Easter Bunny costume bending down and holding the hands of a white boy (right) and white girl (left). All are holding...

Date Published
January-01-1968
December-31-1968
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Eeyore visiting young patients

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Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh visiting young patients (African American and white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Eeyore is looking down and holding out...

Date Published
September-08-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Eeyore, Kanga, and Winnie the Pooh visiting young patients

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Eeyore, Kanga, and Winnie the Pooh visiting young patients (only white children seen in the photo) at Children's Mercy Hospital. The characters are...

Date Published
September-08-1967
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

Four women accordionists playing for the children

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Four white women accordionists from the Sigma Alpha Iota Conservatory Sorority playing for a group of children (only white children seen) on Halloween...

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

Icee the Bear with boys and girls

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Icee the Bear sitting with several boys and girls (African American and white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. There are two girls sitting on the lap of...

Date Published
July-17-1974
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

John O'Donoghue playing Santa

Image

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

Joseph McCauley

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Joseph McCauley in period costume with frilled shirt and spectacles on stage.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Kanga visiting young patients

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Kanga from Winnie the Pooh visiting young patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. Kanga has a small plush Roo in the pouch and is looking down at two...

Date Published
September-08-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Ken Curtis greeting four girls

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Ken Curtis greeting four girls (two African American and two white) and a white woman at Children's Mercy Hospital. Curtis is dressed as Festus from...

Date Published
October-19-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Ken Curtis speaking with Dr. Ned Smull

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Ken Curtis dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke speaking with D. Ned Smull. Smull is in a lab coat and has both hands in its pockets.

Date Published
October-19-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Ken Curtis talking with a boy

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Ken Curtis talking with a white boy on a hospital bed in Children's Mercy Hospital. Curtis is dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke. He is...

Date Published
October-19-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

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  • 1961-1970

Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (65)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (67)

Genres

  • Group portraits (66)
  • Snapshots (65)
  • Black & white photographs (59)
  • Gelatin silver prints (59)
  • Color photographs (8)
  • Portrait photographs (2)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)
  • Film transparencies (1)
  • Stereographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (1)
  • (-) 1961-1970 (67)

Subjects

  • Children--Hospital care (52)
  • Hospital patients (49)
  • Men, White (48)
  • Children, White (47)
  • Women, White (42)
  • Boys (34)
  • African American children (29)
  • Girls (26)
  • Nurses (19)
  • Wheelchairs (19)
  • Cowboys (14)
  • African American women (13)
  • Audiences (10)
  • Hospital beds (10)
  • Accordion (9)
  • Accordionists (9)
  • Actors (9)
  • Cartoon characters (8)
  • Toddlers (8)
  • Characters and characteristics on television (7)
  • Christmas decorations (7)
  • Gifts (7)
  • Musicians (6)
  • Physicians (6)
  • Celebrities (5)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (5)
  • Christmas (4)
  • Clowns (4)
  • Entertainers (4)
  • Hospitals--Employees (4)
  • Masks (4)
  • Bears (3)
  • Guitarists (3)
  • Kangaroos (3)
  • Musical instruments (3)
  • Photographers (3)
  • Baskets (2)
  • Bells (2)
  • Buildings (2)
  • Charities (2)
  • Country musicians (2)
  • Donkeys (2)
  • Easter Bunny (2)
  • Elves (2)
  • Masters of ceremonies (2)
  • Older women (2)
  • Pitchers (Baseball) (2)
  • Professional athletes (2)
  • Softball fields (2)
  • Softball players (2)
  • Toys (2)
  • Advertising characters (1)
  • Bandages and bandaging (1)
  • Batting (Softball) (1)
  • Books (1)
  • Camera operators (1)
  • Cameras (1)
  • Chairs (1)
  • Children--Books and reading (1)
  • Christmas trees (1)
  • Cities and towns (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Dolls (1)
  • Executives (1)
  • Fictitious characters (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Football helmets (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Horses (1)
  • Kissing (1)
  • Laughter (1)
  • Male musicians (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Mothers and daughters (1)
  • New York World's Fair (1964-1965) (1)
  • Orthopedic apparatus (1)
  • Orthopedic traction (1)
  • Owls (1)
  • Plates (Tableware) (1)
  • Rabbits (1)
  • Refuse and refuse disposal (1)
  • Rocking horses (1)
  • Service stations (1)
  • Squirrels (1)
  • Staircases (1)
  • Stairs (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Surgical plaster casts (1)
  • Theaters (1)
  • Theatrical makeup (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Women musicians (1)
  • Women singers (1)
  • (-) Costume (67)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (2)

Subjects, People

  • Santa Claus (Fictitious character) (18)
  • Curtis, Ken, 1916-1991 (12)
  • Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character) (7)
  • Snoopy (Fictitious character) (6)
  • Eeyore (Fictitious character) (5)
  • Kanga (Fictitious character) (2)
  • Smull, Ned (2)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (1)
  • DeCaigny, Carol (1)
  • Gutowski, Erma (1)
  • Hart, Jane (Musician) (1)
  • Icee the Bear (Fictitious character) (1)
  • McCauley, Joseph (1)
  • McNally, Betty (1)
  • Mickey Mouse (Fictitious character) (1)
  • Moore, Clayton, 1914-1999 (1)
  • Owl (Fictitious character) (1)
  • Wetzel, Betty (Nurse) (1)

Date Published

  • 1967-10-19 (12)
  • 1967-09-08 (10)
  • 1967-10-31 (9)
  • 1966-12-01 (7)
  • 1966-12-31 (7)
  • 1967-10-17 (6)
  • 1965-12-01 (4)
  • 1965-12-31 (4)
  • 1964-12-01 (3)
  • 1964-12-31 (3)
  • 1965-12-19 (3)
  • 1965 (2)
  • 1965-12-23 (2)
  • 1967-08-04 (2)
  • 1968-01-01 (2)
  • 1968-12-31 (2)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1967 (1)
  • 1967-01-01 (1)
  • 1967-01-31 (1)
  • 1967-12-10 (1)
  • 1968 (1)
  • 1974-07-17 (1)

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