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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

Children at a Christmas party

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African American and white female nurses with young patients (African American and white) around them during a Christmas party with gifts at Children...

Date Published
December-01-1966
December-31-1966
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 party at Children's Mercy Hospital

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Christmas party at Children's Mercy Hospital held in the children's playroom at the 1710 Independence Avenue building. Santa (white) is standing in...

Date Published
December-01-1934
December-31-1934
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

Girl in bed with toys

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White girl sitting up in a hospital bed holding a stuffed dog with gifts and a decorative paper Santa on the bed beside her. The two gifts are a...

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

Granddaughter at Christmas

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Ed Dix's granddaughter in a pink faerie costume with wings standing in front of a lit Christmas tree with opened presents behind her. Her mother Susan...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ed Dix Collection

Home economics class presenting handmade gifts

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Marylane Thorne, teacher at the hospital's school, accepting donated items handmade by a home economics class (white girls) of the Kansas City Public...

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

Ned Smull and Ilus Davis speaking during a Christmas donation

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Dr. Ned Smull holding a white baby while speaking with Ilus Davis, Mayor (likely) during a donation of gifts and clothing to the hospital at Christmas...

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

Ned Smull with baby accepting donations

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Dr. Ned Smull holding a white baby while a white male Naval Officer and a white woman wearing a turban present an article of clothing as a donation...

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

Opening a Christmas present

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Mary Dix (likely) holding a ribbon on her head as she unwraps a Christmas gift while seated on a sofa. Next to her is her daughter Susan and...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Ed Dix 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

Santa Claus and another man handing out gifts

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Santa Claus (white) and another white man handing out gifts to children (African American and white) in the hospital at the Mayor's Christmas Tree...

Date Published
December-22-1967
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 a young girl and boy

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Santa Claus (white) visiting a young girl and boy (both white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. The patient on left is sitting in a wheel chair holding a...

Date Published
December-01-1934
December-31-1934
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Santa giving a young girl a gift

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Santa Claus (white man) handing a present to a young white girl lying on her back in her hospital bed during the Christmas party.

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

Santa handing a child presents

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Santa Claus (white man) delivering gifts to a young white girl patient lying down in a hospital bed during the Children's Mercy Hospital Christmas...

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

Santa handing out presents

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Santa Claus (white man) handing out presents to patients (African American and white girls and boys) in one of the hospital wards during the Children...

Date Published
December-01-1966
December-31-1966
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

VFW members donating dresses, quilts, and linens

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Dr. Ned Smull wearing a lab coat with a young white girl and men and women of the VFW (all white) as they donate dresses, quilts, and linens to the...

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

Woman speaking to a group of children with presents

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Unidentified white woman with a brace on her right leg speaking in front of a group of patients (African American and white girls and boys), almost...

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

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (19)
  • Ed Dix Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (21)

Genres

  • Snapshots (21)
  • Group portraits (20)
  • Black & white photographs (19)
  • Gelatin silver prints (19)
  • Color photographs (2)
  • Portrait photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (14)
  • 1951-1960 (4)
  • 1931-1940 (2)
  • 1991-2000 (1)

Subjects

  • Children--Hospital care (17)
  • Hospital patients (16)
  • Girls (14)
  • Men, White (14)
  • Women, White (13)
  • African American children (9)
  • Christmas (8)
  • Boys (7)
  • Christmas decorations (6)
  • Hospital beds (6)
  • Nurses (6)
  • Christmas trees (4)
  • Physicians (4)
  • Wheelchairs (4)
  • African American women (3)
  • Children's clothing (3)
  • Costume (3)
  • Books (2)
  • Charity (2)
  • Dolls (2)
  • Granddaughters (2)
  • Mayors (2)
  • Mothers and daughters (2)
  • Philanthropists (2)
  • Stained glass windows (2)
  • Toys (2)
  • Amputees (1)
  • Board games (1)
  • Children's costumes (1)
  • Crèches (Nativity scenes) (1)
  • Crutches (1)
  • Dresses (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Hand puppets (1)
  • Home economics students (1)
  • Hospital administrators (1)
  • Household linens (1)
  • Navies--Officers (1)
  • Orthopedic braces (1)
  • Orthopedic traction (1)
  • Parties (1)
  • Poinsettias (1)
  • Quilts (1)
  • Stairs (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Students (1)
  • Stuffed animals (Toys) (1)
  • Surgical plaster casts (1)
  • Teachers (1)
  • Textile crafts (1)
  • Veterans (1)
  • (-) Children, White (21)
  • (-) Gifts (21)

Subjects, People

  • Santa Claus (Fictitious character) (9)
  • Smull, Ned (4)
  • Davis, Ilus W., 1917-1996 (2)
  • Ramsdell, Susan Dix (2)
  • Cohen, Jerry (Businessman) (1)
  • Dix, Mary (1)
  • Paxton, Bob (1)
  • Pirtle, Charles Wesley (1)
  • Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer (Fictitious character) (1)
  • Schulte, Caroline (1)
  • Thorne, Marylane (1)

Date Published

  • 1961 (6)
  • 1966-12-01 (6)
  • 1966-12-31 (6)
  • 1970 (6)
  • 1951 (3)
  • 1960 (3)
  • 1934-12-01 (2)
  • 1934-12-31 (2)
  • 1991 (2)
  • 2000 (2)
  • 1965-12-01 (1)
  • 1965-12-31 (1)
  • 1967-12-22 (1)

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