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Accordionist playing for young children

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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

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

Children and adults at a holiday party

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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

Chimney Sweep with young patients

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A white man dressed as a Chimney Sweep from Mary Poppins visiting young patients (African American and white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. The man is...

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

Clown entertaining children seated in nurses' laps

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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

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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

Dancer doing a handstand

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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

Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo visiting patients

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Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo visiting a group of child patients (all white except one African American girl) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Renaldo...

Date Published
October-01-1953
October-31-1953
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

Gail Davis talking with patients

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Gail Davis talking with patients (African American and white) and female nurses (white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Davis is dressed as the Annie...

Date Published
October-23-1952
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Icee the Bear entertaining boys and girls

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Icee the Bear entertaining young boys and girls (African American and white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. The mascot for the 7-Eleven company is...

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

Icee the Bear entertaining boys and girls

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Icee the Bear entertaining young boys and girls (African American and white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. The mascot for the 7-Eleven company is...

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

Icee the Bear shaking hands with a young girl

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Icee the Bear shaking hands with a young white girl. The 7-Eleven mascot is celebrating the company's 49th birthday with a group of kids (African...

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

Icee the Bear with a boy and girl

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Icee the Bear with a young white boy and white girl at Children's Mercy Hospital. The mascot for the 7-Eleven company is sitting on the floor during a...

Date Published
July-17-1974
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

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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

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 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

Ken Curtis talking with a boy

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Ken Curtis signing an autograph for an African American boy patient on a surgical bed. Curtis is dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke. The boy...

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

Ken Curtis visiting a child at his hospital bed

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Ken Curtis dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke talking to an African American boy patient lying in his hospital bed.

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

Ken Curtis visiting a toddler in a high chair

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Ken Curtis dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke crouched down and talking to a young white boy patient in a high chair with a tray as African...

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

Marilyn Maye visiting young patients

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Marilyn Maye visiting young patients (African American and white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. She is sitting in the center of several children. They...

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

Mickey Mouse interacting with young patients

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Mickey Mouse interacting with young patients (African American and white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Mickey is kneeling and holding the hand of a...

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

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  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (41)

Types

  • photographs (41)

Genres

  • Group portraits (41)
  • Snapshots (41)
  • Black & white photographs (33)
  • Gelatin silver prints (33)
  • Color photographs (8)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (29)
  • 1971-1980 (9)
  • 1951-1960 (2)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • Children--Hospital care (41)
  • Hospital patients (40)
  • Children, White (34)
  • Women, White (28)
  • Men, White (26)
  • Boys (25)
  • Girls (18)
  • Wheelchairs (16)
  • Nurses (14)
  • African American women (12)
  • Audiences (8)
  • Bears (7)
  • Cowboys (7)
  • Hospital beds (7)
  • Advertising characters (6)
  • Cartoon characters (6)
  • Characters and characteristics on television (6)
  • Accordion (5)
  • Accordionists (5)
  • Actors (5)
  • Fictitious characters (5)
  • Photographers (4)
  • Clowns (3)
  • Entertainers (3)
  • Musicians (3)
  • Toys (3)
  • Bandages and bandaging (2)
  • Cameras (2)
  • Celebrities (2)
  • Christmas decorations (2)
  • Hats (2)
  • Hospitals--Employees (2)
  • Kangaroos (2)
  • Masters of ceremonies (2)
  • Orthopedic braces (2)
  • Toddlers (2)
  • Actresses (1)
  • Balloons (1)
  • Birthday cards (1)
  • Books (1)
  • Camera operators (1)
  • Chairs (1)
  • Children--Books and reading (1)
  • Chimney sweeps (1)
  • Christmas (1)
  • Christmas trees (1)
  • Clocks and watches (1)
  • Country musicians (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Crutches (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Dolls (1)
  • Donkeys (1)
  • Elephants (1)
  • Elves (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Gifts (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Hispanic American men (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Masks (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Orthopedic apparatus (1)
  • Owls (1)
  • Pitchers (Baseball) (1)
  • Professional athletes (1)
  • Rabbits (1)
  • Rocking horses (1)
  • Snowmen (1)
  • Staircases (1)
  • Surgical plaster casts (1)
  • Wreaths (1)
  • (-) African American children (41)
  • (-) Costume (41)

Subjects, People

  • Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character) (8)
  • Curtis, Ken, 1916-1991 (5)
  • Icee the Bear (Fictitious character) (5)
  • Eeyore (Fictitious character) (4)
  • Kanga (Fictitious character) (2)
  • Santa Claus (Fictitious character) (2)
  • Snoopy (Fictitious character) (2)
  • Carrillo, Leo (1)
  • Davis, Gail (1)
  • DeCaigny, Carol (1)
  • Maye, Marilyn (1)
  • McNally, Betty (1)
  • Mouse, Mickey (Fictitious character) (1)
  • Oakley, Annie, 1860-1926 (1)
  • Owl (Fictitious character) (1)
  • Renaldo, Duncan (1)

Date Published

  • 1967-09-08 (9)
  • 1967-10-31 (7)
  • 1967-10-19 (5)
  • 1974-07-17 (5)
  • 1966-12-01 (2)
  • 1966-12-31 (2)
  • 1967-10-17 (2)
  • 1971 (2)
  • 1972-01-01 (2)
  • 1972-12-31 (2)
  • 1980 (2)
  • 1952-10-23 (1)
  • 1953-10-01 (1)
  • 1953-10-31 (1)
  • 1964-12-01 (1)
  • 1964-12-31 (1)
  • 1965-12-19 (1)
  • 1967-01-01 (1)
  • 1967-01-31 (1)
  • 1974-01-01 (1)
  • 1974-12-31 (1)
  • 1981 (1)
  • 1990 (1)

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