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Agnes Messersmith with her son

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Agnes Messersmith holding her son while outside near some trees. She's wearing a heavy coat.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Breaking ground for the new hospital building

Image

Crowd gathered (white women and men in photo) for the groundbreaking ceremony for the new hospital building. Lined up with shovels in hand are (left...

Date Published
February-06-1968
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Breaking ground for the new hospital building

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Crowd gathered for the groundbreaking ceremony for the new hospital building. Lined up with shovels in hand are (left to right) Mario Pagano, Alice...

Date Published
February-06-1968
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Breaking ground for the new hospital building

Image

Large crowd (white women and men in photo) gathered for the new hospital's groundbreaking ceremony. Lined up with shovels in hand are (left to right)...

Date Published
February-06-1968
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Breaking ground for the new hospital building

Image

Large crowd (one African American man, the rest white women and men) gathered for the new hospital's groundbreaking ceremony. Lined up with shovels in...

Date Published
February-06-1968
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Breaking ground for the new hospital building

Image

Large crowd (white women and men in photo) gathered for the groundbreaking ceremony for the new hospital building. Persons lined up shoveling include...

Date Published
February-06-1968
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Breaking ground for the new hospital building

Image

Large crowd (white women and men in photo) gathered for the groundbreaking ceremony for the new hospital building. Persons lined up shoveling include...

Date Published
February-06-1968
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Breaking ground for the new hospital building

Image

Large crowd (two African American men, the rest white women and men) gathered for the new hospital building's groundbreaking ceremony. Lined up with...

Date Published
February-06-1968
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Breaking ground for the new hospital building

Image

Large crowd (all white women and men in photo) gathered for the new hospital building's groundbreaking ceremony. Lined up with shovels in hand are...

Date Published
February-06-1968
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Carol Belt with two others

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Carol Belt (left) and two unidentified white women standing in a roped off area while posing for a photo during an unidentified event. Children's...

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

Children and adults in group photo on the lawn

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Six white women, three of them nurses and a large group of children (all white boys and girls), some with casts on their legs sitting on a lawn in...

Date Published
August-29-1915
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children and nurses standing on the lawn

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Children (white) and female white nurses standing on the lawn of Children's Mercy Hospital in celebration of its 25th Birthday Celebration. Boys and...

Date Published
January-01-1922
December-31-1922
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children and nurses standing outside

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Children and female nurses (all white) standing outside Children's Mercy Hospital in celebration of its 25th Birthday Celebration. Boys and girls are...

Date Published
January-01-1922
December-31-1922
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Crowd at the cornerstone laying

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Large crowd with female nurses in the first row at the laying of the cornerstone for Children's Mercy Hospital on Independence Avenue. Crowd consists...

Date Published
January-01-1916
December-31-1916
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Dean Cowles outside the hospital

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Dean Cowles, Director of Nursing, standing on the lawn of Children's Mercy Hospital in her nursing uniform.

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

Doctors and nurses outside at staff picnic

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Doctors (white men) and nurses (white women) standing around outside near tables during the Children's Mercy Hospital staff picnic. One woman is seen...

Date Published
August-24-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Exterior view of Nurse Hall

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Exterior view of Nurse Hall with students (white women) walking toward steps to outer sidewalk where several other females are approaching from the...

Date Published
January-01-1937
December-31-1937
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Feeding toddlers

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Unidentified white female student nurse feeding three white children sitting in high chairs in the baby ward at Children's Mercy Hospital. She's...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Feeding toddlers

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Unidentified white female student nurse feeding three white children sitting in high chairs in the baby ward at Children's Mercy Hospital.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Front and back of a postcard with two nurses

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Front: A studio portrait of two unidentified African American women in nurse uniforms which consist of full-length, long-sleeved dresses, full-length...

Date Published
1904
1918
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Group of nurses outside the hospital entrance

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Group of white female nurses standing outside the entrance to the hospital: Helen Hill standing behind nurse Roscoe front left, Messidy Polk, and Mary...

Date Published
January-01-1920
January-31-1920
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Group photo of Children's Mercy Hospital trained nurses

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Group photo of twenty-two white female nurses (most in caps) standing outside of the hospital in a single row. Hands held behind their backs, all...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Group photo of nurses

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Graduating Nursing class (all white women) among whom are: Opal Champ, Agnes Messersmith, Wester, Mary Burman, Bergstresser and Evelyn Rafter...

Date Published
January-01-1918
December-31-1918
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Group photo with Katharine Berry Richardson, Dr. Robert Schauffler and others

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Group photo with Katharine Berry Richardson (standing, center, top step) and Dr. Robert Schauffler (seated on ledge, right) with two unidentified...

Date Published
January-01-1917
December-31-1917
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Harriet West helping young child on a tricycle

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Nurse Harriet West (likely) crouching down to help young African American boy riding a tricycle on the outdoor patio.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

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Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (93)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (1)
  • Front and back of a postcard with two nurses (1)

Types

  • photographs (95)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (94)
  • Gelatin silver prints (94)
  • Snapshots (92)
  • Group portraits (78)
  • Portrait photographs (14)
  • Architectural photographs (3)
  • Photographic postcards (2)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)
  • Color photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1921-1930 (47)
  • 1961-1970 (16)
  • 1911-1920 (15)
  • 1931-1940 (9)
  • 1901-1910 (4)
  • 1951-1960 (2)
  • 1971-1980 (2)
  • 1881-1890 (1)
  • 1941-1950 (1)

Subjects

  • Women, White (93)
  • Children, White (41)
  • Hospital buildings (41)
  • Hospital patients (38)
  • Children--Hospital care (37)
  • Boys (25)
  • Men, White (25)
  • Girls (18)
  • Buildings (15)
  • Hospitals--Employees (15)
  • Physicians (14)
  • Toddlers (13)
  • Hospital administrators (10)
  • African American children (9)
  • Crowds (9)
  • Shovels (8)
  • Crutches (7)
  • Stairs (7)
  • Trees (7)
  • Tricycles (7)
  • Wheelchairs (7)
  • Nursing students (6)
  • African American men (5)
  • Streets (5)
  • Student nurses (5)
  • African American women (4)
  • Infants (4)
  • Microphone (4)
  • Signs and signboards (4)
  • Carriages and carts (3)
  • Hats (3)
  • Horses (3)
  • Parade floats (3)
  • Parades (3)
  • Shrubs (3)
  • Ambulances (2)
  • Anniversaries (2)
  • Audiences (2)
  • Bandages and bandaging (2)
  • Banners (2)
  • Children's furniture (2)
  • Coats (2)
  • Columns (2)
  • Company picnics (2)
  • Costume (2)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (2)
  • Dinners and dining (2)
  • Fences (2)
  • Flowers (2)
  • Hospitals (2)
  • Operating room nurses (2)
  • Surgical plaster casts (2)
  • Ambulance drivers (1)
  • Antennas (Electronics) (1)
  • Awnings (1)
  • Benches (1)
  • Bicycles (1)
  • Building sites (1)
  • Children with disabilities (1)
  • Cornerstone laying (1)
  • Dogs (1)
  • Doors (1)
  • Dwellings (1)
  • Employees (1)
  • Fountains (1)
  • Fur garments (1)
  • Hospital beds (1)
  • Interns (Medicine) (1)
  • Intravenous therapy--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Letter writing (1)
  • Medical instruments and apparatus (1)
  • Mothers and sons (1)
  • Nursing schools (1)
  • Parking lots (1)
  • Pedestrians (1)
  • Picnics (1)
  • Postcards (1)
  • Sidewalks (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Stone walls (1)
  • Swings (1)
  • Tables (1)
  • Trolley buses--Wires and wiring (1)
  • Wagons (1)
  • Wild boar (1)
  • Windows (1)
  • (-) Nurses (95)

Subjects, Geographic

  • (-) Kansas City (Mo.) (95)

Subjects, People

  • Smull, Ned (8)
  • Walker, Alice (Nurse) (8)
  • Weaver, Margaret (8)
  • Messersmith, Agnes (7)
  • Fenner, Anna (6)
  • Pagano, Mario (Hospital employee) (6)
  • Sutherland, Herman R. (6)
  • West, Harriet (4)
  • Christiansen, Helen (3)
  • Harlan, Cleo (3)
  • Martin, Glover (3)
  • Belt, Carol (2)
  • McAllister, Helen Hill (2)
  • Osborn, Martha (2)
  • Richardson, Katharine, 1858-1933 (2)
  • Burman, Mary (1)
  • Champ, Opal (1)
  • Cowles, Dean (1)
  • Francisco, C. B., 1880-1944 (1)
  • Kelley, Winifred (1)
  • Polk, Messidy (1)
  • Rafter, Evelyn (1)
  • Ross, Mary (Nurse) (1)
  • Schauffler, Robert McEwan (1)
  • Stockwell, John F. (1)
  • Walters, Helen (Nurse) (1)

Date Published

  • 1921 (38)
  • 1930 (38)
  • 1968-02-06 (8)
  • 1918-01-01 (5)
  • 1918-12-31 (5)
  • 1925-01-01 (5)
  • 1925-12-31 (5)
  • 1920-01-01 (4)
  • 1931 (4)
  • 1940 (4)
  • 1920-12-31 (3)
  • 1939-01-01 (3)
  • 1939-12-31 (3)
  • 1904 (2)
  • 1918 (2)
  • 1922-01-01 (2)
  • 1922-12-31 (2)
  • 1923-01-01 (2)
  • 1927-12-31 (2)
  • 1961 (2)
  • 1964-05-18 (2)
  • 1967-08-24 (2)
  • 1970 (2)
  • 1881-01-01 (1)
  • 1890-12-31 (1)
  • 1901 (1)
  • 1901-01-01 (1)
  • 1901-12-31 (1)
  • 1910 (1)
  • 1915-08-29 (1)
  • 1916-01-01 (1)
  • 1916-12-31 (1)
  • 1917-01-01 (1)
  • 1917-12-31 (1)
  • 1919-01-01 (1)
  • 1919-12-31 (1)
  • 1920-01-31 (1)
  • 1934-01-01 (1)
  • 1934-12-31 (1)
  • 1937-01-01 (1)
  • 1937-12-31 (1)
  • 1941 (1)
  • 1950 (1)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1952-05-28 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1970-01-01 (1)
  • 1970-12-17 (1)
  • 1970-12-31 (1)
  • 1971 (1)
  • 1971-04-01 (1)
  • 1972-04 (1)
  • 1980 (1)

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