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Children reading on hospital beds

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Young white girl and two white boys sitting on a hospital bed with books in hand, one young boy is holding a small piece of paper up. Another boy is...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Junior League volunteer reading to a patient

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Linda Kline, Junior League Volunteer, reading "New at the Zoo" to an African American boy patient in his hospital bed. His leg is in a cast and in...

Date Published
May-16-1973
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Katherine Wilson instructing young patients

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Katherine Wilson instructing young patients (all white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Wilson, the principal of the hospital school, is working with...

Date Published
January-01-1949
December-31-1949
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Katherine Wilson with a patient

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Katherine Wilson working with a young white boy patient. Wilson, the principal of the hospital school, is holding a book above a boy laying on a bed...

Date Published
January-01-1949
December-31-1949
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

Mother reading to her girl in the hospital

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Young white girl patient being read to by her mother sitting next to her hospital bed.

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

Santa passing a gift to a child in a hospital bed

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Santa Claus (white man) handing out a gift and a book to a white child lying down in their hospital bed and reaching for the gifts.

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

Young girl with bandaged hand reading in bed

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Little white girl sitting in bed smiling, and holding a book open on her lap. One arm is bandaged.

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

  • photographs (8)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (8)
  • Gelatin silver prints (8)
  • Snapshots (8)
  • Group portraits (7)
  • Portrait photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (4)
  • 1941-1950 (2)
  • 1931-1940 (1)
  • 1971-1980 (1)

Subjects

  • Children--Hospital care (8)
  • Hospital patients (8)
  • Children, White (7)
  • Boys (5)
  • Girls (4)
  • Women, White (4)
  • African American children (2)
  • Men, White (2)
  • Reading (2)
  • Students (2)
  • Teachers (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • Bandages and bandaging (1)
  • Characters and characteristics on television (1)
  • Children--Books and reading (1)
  • Christmas (1)
  • Costume (1)
  • Cowboys (1)
  • Gifts (1)
  • Illustrated children's books (1)
  • Mother and child (1)
  • Mothers and daughters (1)
  • Orthopedic traction (1)
  • Surgical plaster casts (1)
  • Volunteer workers in hospitals (1)
  • Windows (1)
  • (-) Books (8)
  • (-) Hospital beds (8)

Subjects, People

  • Wilson, Katherine (Educator) (2)
  • Curtis, Ken, 1916-1991 (1)
  • Kline, Linda (Volunteer) (1)
  • Santa Claus (Fictitious character) (1)

Date Published

  • 1949-01-01 (2)
  • 1949-12-31 (2)
  • 1931 (1)
  • 1940 (1)
  • 1965-10-01 (1)
  • 1965-10-31 (1)
  • 1966-12-01 (1)
  • 1966-12-31 (1)
  • 1967-05-01 (1)
  • 1967-05-31 (1)
  • 1967-10-19 (1)
  • 1973-05-16 (1)

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