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Administrators and children with clothes donations

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From left to right are an unidentified white female nurse, Jerry Cohen, an unidentified white man, Dr. Ned Smull, Caroline Schulte, and Mr. Black, all...

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

Christmas at Children's Mercy Hospital

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A hospital ward crowded with unidentified people and patients (African American and white, men, women, boys, and girls), some in hospital beds...

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

Christmas at Children's Mercy Hospital

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A hospital ward crowded with unidentified people and patients (African American and white, men, women, boys, and girls), some in hospital beds...

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

Christmas at Children's Mercy Hospital

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A hospital ward crowded with unidentified people and patients (African American and white, men, women, boys, and girls), some in hospital beds...

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

Christmas at Children's Mercy Hospital

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Large crowd of unidentified people and patients (African American and white) packed into a room for a Christmas celebration at Children's Mercy...

Date Published
1961
1970
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

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

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

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

Lobby Christmas party for the children

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Christmas party in the lobby of Children's Mercy Hospital for the patients (all white boys and girls except for one African American child). Nurse...

Date Published
January-01-1954
December-31-1954
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

Photographer photographing someone in a Christmas Tree costume

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A white female photographer taking a photo of someone in a Christmas tree costume during an event with patients (African American and white) and...

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

Santa and others handing out gifts or candy

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Santa Claus (white man) passing out either small gifts or candy to young patients with nurses and other adults in attendance during a Christmas party...

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

Santa and others helping with a Christmas stocking

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Santa Claus and two unidentified white female hospital attendees helping young patients (white girl, right, African American child, left (partially...

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

Santa Claus handing out presents to children

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Large group of patients (African American and white) sitting on the steps in the lobby area of Children's Mercy Hospital while Santa (white) hands out...

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

Santa Claus visiting two young boys

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Santa Claus (white man), holding sleigh bells and visiting with two African American boy toddler patients being held by two white female nurses. The...

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

Santa handing out gifts

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Santa Claus (white man) visiting patients and passing out Christmas presents to a group (African American girls and boys) seated before him. Other...

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

Santa visiting with the children

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Crowd of people (white) in the lobby while Santa (white) visits with children (African American and white). He has his arm around a young white boy...

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

View of attendees of a hospital Christmas party

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Children's Mercy Hospital main lobby filled with patients and various adults and decorated with streamers on the ceiling and other Christmas...

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

View of attendees of a hospital Christmas party

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Children's Mercy Hospital ward decorated with streamers on the ceiling and filled with patients, nurses, and other adults participating in a Christmas...

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

Woman reading a story to an audience at a Christmas party

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Unidentified white woman (left) with book open in front of her reading to an audience of children and adults during a hospital Christmas party. A...

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

Young boy with toy truck

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Young African American boy sitting in his hospital bed on Christmas morning holding a toy cement truck with the box it came in beside him. Behind the...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection
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  • African American children
  • Christmas decorations

Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (22)

Types

  • photographs (22)

Genres

  • Snapshots (22)
  • Group portraits (21)
  • Black & white photographs (20)
  • Gelatin silver prints (20)
  • Color photographs (2)
  • Architectural photographs (1)
  • Portrait photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (17)
  • 1951-1960 (4)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • Children--Hospital care (21)
  • Hospital patients (19)
  • Women, White (19)
  • Men, White (18)
  • Children, White (17)
  • African American women (12)
  • Nurses (11)
  • Boys (9)
  • Girls (9)
  • Wheelchairs (9)
  • Christmas (6)
  • Gifts (6)
  • Hospital beds (6)
  • Audiences (5)
  • Hospitals--Employees (5)
  • Bells (3)
  • Christmas trees (3)
  • Piano (3)
  • Books (2)
  • Costume (2)
  • Hospital administrators (2)
  • Stairs (2)
  • Statues (2)
  • Accordionists (1)
  • African American men (1)
  • Bandages and bandaging (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Cameras (1)
  • Children's clothing (1)
  • Children's parties (1)
  • Christmas stockings (1)
  • Crèches (Nativity scenes) (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Dolls (1)
  • Hospital buildings (1)
  • Mayors (1)
  • Older women (1)
  • Oral reading (1)
  • Orthopedic braces (1)
  • Philanthropists (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Physicians (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Pitchers (Baseball) (1)
  • Professional athletes (1)
  • Reindeer (1)
  • Sleighs (1)
  • Snowmen (1)
  • Teachers (1)
  • Toys (1)
  • Trucks--Models (1)
  • Wreaths (1)
  • (-) African American children (22)
  • (-) Christmas decorations (22)

Subjects, Geographic

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

Subjects, People

  • Santa Claus (Fictitious character) (10)
  • Bales, Ruby (1)
  • Clark, Ed (Photographer) (1)
  • Cohen, Jerry (Businessman) (1)
  • Davis, Ilus W., 1917-1996 (1)
  • Jensen, Iris (1)
  • Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer (Fictitious character) (1)
  • Schulte, Caroline (1)
  • Smull, Ned (1)
  • Weaver, Margaret (1)

Date Published

  • 1961 (6)
  • 1964-12-01 (6)
  • 1964-12-31 (6)
  • 1970 (6)
  • 1951 (3)
  • 1960 (3)
  • 1965-12-01 (2)
  • 1965-12-31 (2)
  • 1966-12-01 (2)
  • 1966-12-31 (2)
  • 1954-01-01 (1)
  • 1954-12-31 (1)
  • 1965-12-19 (1)
  • 1981 (1)
  • 1990 (1)

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