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Blind girls playing with a doll

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Two young blind girls, both white, at Children's Mercy Hospital's Lucerne Ward. One is seated in a chair holding out her hands and another has her...

Date Published
1904
1917
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Bob Random visiting young patients

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Bob Random visiting with young patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. The Iron Horse actor is standing on the right and looking down at patient...

Date Published
August-30-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Boys and girls in hospital beds outside on the fourth floor porch

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Young patients (white boys and girls) lying in a row of hospital beds taking in some sun on the fourth floor porch. A few cribs are the end of the row...

Date Published
September-01-1952
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Doctor attending to a bandaged toddler in a crib

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Unidentified white female doctor wearing scrubs attending to a white female toddler patient in a hospital crib. The girl is wearing bandages and on...

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

Dr. Smull and Ilus Davis talking with a mother and child

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Dr. Ned Smull in a lab coat leaning over a table with Kansas City mayor Ilus Davis to talk with a mother and her daughter (both white) in one of the...

Date Published
December-23-1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Dr. Smull showing Ilus Davis a ward of children

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Dr. Ned Smull in a lab coat standing with Kansas City mayor Ilus Davis in one of the hospitals wards. A young white girl is seated across from them in...

Date Published
December-23-1965
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

Getting a patient ready for the move

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Nurse Diane Galardi getting a white girl patient in a crib ready to move to the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. Galardi is wearing a winter...

Date Published
December-17-1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Ken Curtis visiting patients

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Ken Curtis dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke with his arm around a white toddler boy in a hospital gown while other patients (white girls)...

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

Nurse holding crack-exposed infant with visitors looking on

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Nurse Pat Erwin is seated by a crib and holding a crack-exposed infant girl while Senator John Danforth, and Dr. Howard Kilbride with the Neonatal...

Date Published
April-30-1990
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Nurses about to move a young patient

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Nurses Debbie Collier (left) and Betty Lynch (right) in overcoats standing bedside a crib with a young African American girl patient to be moved into...

Date Published
December-17-1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Sharon Ellis with girl in a crib

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Sharon Ellis standing next to hospital crib with a African American girl patient lying down. Ellis is holding her hand and the girl is looking over at...

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

Toddler in a crib with phone

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White toddler girl in a crib holding a toy phone to her ear and looking at the camera.

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

Toddler in her crib with a book

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White toddler girl in her crib with a coloring book titled "Simple Things to Color". On her stomach with head raised and looking over to the camera.

Date Published
January-01-1941
December-31-1941
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Unidentified female nurse with toddler girl patient

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An unidentified white female nurse with young white girl patient in a crib. The nurse is leaning down and touching the girl's leg. The girl is holding...

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

Young girl in a crib with a doll

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Young white girl wearing a dress sitting in a crib with a large doll lying next to her. The girl's head is resting on one shoulder.

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

Young girl sitting up in a crib

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Young white girl patient in sitting up in a crib with a rag doll lying across her lap. Looking to the right of the photo.

Date Published
December-01-1952
December-31-1952
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection
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  • Cribs (Children's furniture)
  • Girls

Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (17)

Types

  • photographs (17)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (17)
  • Gelatin silver prints (17)
  • Snapshots (17)
  • Group portraits (13)
  • Portrait photographs (4)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (8)
  • 1951-1960 (4)
  • 1941-1950 (2)
  • 1901-1910 (1)
  • 1911-1920 (1)
  • 1971-1980 (1)
  • 1991-2000 (1)

Subjects

  • Children--Hospital care (17)
  • Hospital patients (17)
  • Children, White (14)
  • Women, White (11)
  • Nurses (9)
  • Men, White (6)
  • African American children (5)
  • Toddlers (5)
  • Dolls (4)
  • Physicians (4)
  • Bandages and bandaging (3)
  • Boys (3)
  • Coats (2)
  • Mayors (2)
  • Medical instruments and apparatus (2)
  • Mothers and daughters (2)
  • Toys (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • Baby rattles (1)
  • Blind children (1)
  • Celebrities (1)
  • Characters and characteristics on television (1)
  • Christmas decorations (1)
  • Christmas trees (1)
  • Coloring books (1)
  • Costume (1)
  • Cowboys (1)
  • Crack (Drug)--Health aspects (1)
  • Hospital beds (1)
  • Infants (1)
  • Intravenous therapy--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Intravenous therapy for children (1)
  • Legislators--U.S. states (1)
  • Neonatal intensive care (1)
  • Neonatal nursing (1)
  • Neonatologists (1)
  • Notebooks (1)
  • Orthopedic traction (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Pistols (1)
  • Porches (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Sunspaces (1)
  • Telephone (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • (-) Cribs (Children's furniture) (17)
  • (-) Girls (17)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Davis, Ilus W., 1917-1996 (2)
  • Smull, Ned (2)
  • Austin, Gene, 1900-1972 (1)
  • Collier, Debbie (Nurse) (1)
  • Curtis, Ken, 1916-1991 (1)
  • Danforth, John C. (1)
  • Ellis, Sharon (Nurse) (1)
  • Erwin, Pat (Nurse) (1)
  • Galardi, Diane (1)
  • Kilbride, Howard (1)
  • Lynch, Betty (Nurse) (1)
  • Random, Bob, 1943- (1)

Date Published

  • 1951 (3)
  • 1960 (3)
  • 1965-12-23 (2)
  • 1970-12-17 (2)
  • 1904 (1)
  • 1917 (1)
  • 1941-01-01 (1)
  • 1941-12-31 (1)
  • 1952-09-01 (1)
  • 1952-12-01 (1)
  • 1952-12-31 (1)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1967-08-30 (1)
  • 1967-10-19 (1)
  • 1967-12-01 (1)
  • 1967-12-31 (1)
  • 1970 (1)
  • 1971 (1)
  • 1980 (1)
  • 1990-04-30 (1)

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