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Board members, nurses, physicians, and a patient

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Board members, nurses, physicians, and a patient (all white) with KMBC radio journalists at Children's Mercy Hospital. They are sitting in a circle...

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

Children and nurses outside on the sun porch

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Group of patients (white girls and boys) out on the third floor sun porch with four white female nurses. Some of the children are sitting on a...

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

Children in the hospital classroom

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Unidentified white female teacher standing at a piano in the hospital's classroom with children (all white girls and boys) lined up in a semi-circle...

Date Published
May-28-1952
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children outside on the sun porch

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Group of patients (white girls and boys) out on the third floor sun porch. Some of the children are sitting on a hospital bed and others are in...

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

Children outside on the sun porch

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Group of patients (white girls and boys) out on the third floor sun porch. Some of the children are sitting on a hospital bed and others are in...

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

Christmas party at Children's Mercy Hospital

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Children (all white girls and boys), some in wheelchairs, at a Hallmark Christmas party for Children's Mercy Hospital patients. Christmas decorations...

Date Published
December-18-1957
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Dr. Richardson's birthday celebration

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Celebration in honor of Dr. Richardson's birthday and Mrs. O.U. Hoover who was Treasurer from 1905-1955. Guests (all white) left to right: Mrs. Dietz...

Date Published
1959
1960
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Eating cake

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Joe Lewis, Washington Director of the Baker's Union sitting between two white girl patients, all eating cake with icing on their faces. The girl on...

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

Gene Austin playing piano and singing

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Gene Austin playing piano and singing for patients (white girls and boys) and other visitors (African American and white women and a white man) around...

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

Gene Austin playing piano and singing

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Gene Austin playing piano and singing for patients (white girls and boys) and other visitors (white women) around Christmas time. A large Christmas...

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

Girls sewing together

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White girl patient's in a hand sewing class at the sitting together and sewing. Two girls are in wheelchairs and the rest seated on hospital beds.

Date Published
June-30-1951
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Group of boys and one girl in group in a ward

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Four boys (one African American, one white) and one white girl gathered together for a photo in one of the wards. The boy at the right of the photo is...

Date Published
October-01-1960
October-31-1960
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

Margaret Weaver dancing with Santa

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Margaret Weaver, Board President, wearing a volunteer uniform and dancing with Santa Claus (white male). An African American child in a wheelchair is...

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

Music class

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Children's Mercy Hospital patients (white and African American girls and boys) seated in a classroom, all in wheelchairs and hospital beds, for music...

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

Nurse outside with a group of patients

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Unidentified white female nurse with a group of patients (all white girls and boys) on the hospital's third floor patio. Some children are in...

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

Parade float from Children's Mercy Hospital

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Children's Mercy Hospital parade float featuring a young white girl sitting in a wheelchair holding a balloon while a white female teenaged nurse in...

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

Santa and his helpers giving out presents

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Santa Claus (white) handing out presents to children (white and African American) at Children's Mercy Hospital with the help of Charles Wesley Pirtle...

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

Sewing class modeling finished items

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White girls from a sewing class held at the hospital modeling some finished items in a group picture. One girl is seated in a wheelchair, others are...

Date Published
June-30-1951
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Sewing class modeling finished items

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White girls from a sewing class held at the hospital modeling some finished items in a group picture. One girl is seated in a wheelchair, others are...

Date Published
June-30-1951
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Teacher with children in the hospital classroom

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Children (white boys and one white girl) at desks in the hospital's classroom working on assignments and assisted by an unidentified white female...

Date Published
October-01-1953
October-31-1953
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Toddlers listening a woman play the dulcimer

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Musettes (two white women) entertaining school children/patients (all white boys and girls) by playing a dulcimer. Some patients are in wheelchairs...

Date Published
November-19-1951
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Unidentified actor and actress sitting with young boys and girls

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An unidentified white actor and white actress sitting with young boys and girls (all white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Several of the patients are...

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

Young girl view large campaign poster of herself in wheelchair

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Two unidentified white men and young white girl alongside a United Way campaign poster, featuring a photo of a young girl in a wheelchair who appears...

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

Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (25)

Types

  • photographs (25)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (25)
  • Gelatin silver prints (25)
  • Group portraits (25)
  • Snapshots (25)

Time Periods

  • (-) 1951-1960 (25)

Subjects

  • Children--Hospital care (25)
  • Hospital patients (25)
  • Children, White (24)
  • Girls (18)
  • Boys (13)
  • Women, White (13)
  • Men, White (10)
  • Hospital beds (8)
  • Nurses (8)
  • African American children (6)
  • Bandages and bandaging (5)
  • Crutches (5)
  • Teachers (5)
  • Christmas decorations (4)
  • Orthopedic braces (4)
  • Classrooms (3)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (3)
  • Girls' clothing (3)
  • Hospital administrators (3)
  • Sewing--Study and teaching (3)
  • African American women (2)
  • Children's parties (2)
  • Christmas trees (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Piano (2)
  • Singers (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • Actresses (1)
  • Amputees (1)
  • Banners (1)
  • Birdcages (1)
  • Birthday parties (1)
  • Cake (1)
  • Christmas (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Desks (1)
  • Dulcimer (1)
  • Gifts (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Labor unions--Officials and employees (1)
  • Magicians (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Oil industry workers (1)
  • Older women (1)
  • Parade floats (1)
  • Parades (1)
  • Physicians (1)
  • Posters (1)
  • Radio talk show hosts (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Surgical plaster casts (1)
  • Teenagers (1)
  • Toddlers (1)
  • Toy instruments (1)
  • Tractors (1)
  • Wagons (1)
  • (-) Wheelchairs (25)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Santa Claus (Fictitious character) (3)
  • Austin, Gene, 1900-1972 (2)
  • Bales, Ruby (1)
  • Clark, Ed (Photographer) (1)
  • Hoover, O. U. (1)
  • Jensen, Iris (1)
  • Paxton, Bob (1)
  • Pirtle, Charles Wesley (1)
  • Weaver, Margaret (1)

Date Published

  • 1960 (15)
  • 1951 (14)
  • 1951-06-01+ (3)
  • 1951-06-30 (3)
  • 1951-11-19 (1)
  • 1952-05-28 (1)
  • 1953-10-01 (1)
  • 1953-10-31 (1)
  • 1954-01-01 (1)
  • 1954-12-31 (1)
  • 1957-12-18 (1)
  • 1959 (1)
  • 1960-10-01 (1)
  • 1960-10-31 (1)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1970 (1)

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