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Children in a music lesson

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Classroom of students (three African American boys, the rest white girls and boys) who are mostly all in wheelchairs during a music lesson. Most...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children in wheelchairs in the park

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Row of white children (one girl, the rest boys) in wheelchairs riding on the Blue Bird Walk that encircled the back yard stadium of Children's Mercy...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children listening to Peter and the Wolf in a classroom

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Patients (white girls and boys) in the hospital classroom receiving a music lesson by listening to Prokofiev's symphonic tale "Peter & the Wolf". A...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Group of people at a check presentation

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Robert M. Schauffler (behind wheelchair) next to Superintendent Elizabeth Martin along with several other unidentified white women and a white man in...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Group of people at a check presentation

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Large crowd of people (all white women and men) gathered in front of a staircase watching two unidentified women standing in front, each with one hand...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Nurse with toddler

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Group of four people (two white women, two white men, Robert M. Schauffler behind one in a wheelchair with a cane) watching an unidentified white...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Nurse with toddler and community members

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Robert M. Schauffler (behind wheelchair) next to two unidentified white women and an unidentified white man in a wheelchair with two canes watching an...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Patients in a school classroom

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Patients (all white boys and girls) in a school classroom at Children's Mercy Hospital. They are all looking down at their desks and writing. Students...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Patients in a school classroom

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Patients (all white boys and girls) in a school classroom at Children's Mercy Hospital. They are all looking down at their desks and writing. The...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Patients on the hospital playground

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Patients (white girls and boys) outside on the hospital playground in wheelchairs and carts. Unidentified white woman is at the far left with them...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Toddler polio patients

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Two white toddler girl polio patients seated side by side in a wheelchair. The girl on the right holds what looks to be a toy in one hand.

Date Published
January-01-1946
December-31-1946
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Young female patient in wheelchair

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Young white girl patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. The girl is sitting in a wheelchair and has her right leg in a cast. She is looking up and...

Date Published
September-01-1942
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection
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  • Wheelchairs
  • 1941-1950

Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (12)

Types

  • photographs (12)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (12)
  • Gelatin silver prints (12)
  • Snapshots (12)
  • Group portraits (11)
  • Portrait photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • (-) 1941-1950 (12)

Subjects

  • Children, White (10)
  • Children--Hospital care (10)
  • Hospital patients (10)
  • Girls (8)
  • Women, White (7)
  • Boys (6)
  • Classrooms (4)
  • Men, White (4)
  • Philanthropists (4)
  • Stairs (4)
  • Charity (3)
  • Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.) (3)
  • Desks (2)
  • Hospital administrators (2)
  • Hospital beds (2)
  • Nurses (2)
  • Students (2)
  • Teachers (2)
  • Toddlers (2)
  • Windows (2)
  • African American children (1)
  • Blackboards (1)
  • Drum--Study and teaching (1)
  • Music--Study and teaching (Elementary) (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Parks (1)
  • Playgrounds (1)
  • Poliomyelitis--Patients (1)
  • Stadiums (1)
  • Surgical plaster casts (1)
  • Toys (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • Wall clocks (1)
  • (-) Wheelchairs (12)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (2)

Subjects, People

  • Schauffler, Robert McEwan (4)
  • Martin, Elizabeth (Superintendent) (2)

Date Published

  • 1941 (10)
  • 1950 (10)
  • 1942-09-01 (1)
  • 1946-01-01 (1)
  • 1946-12-31 (1)

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