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At the mayor's Christmas party

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Two white children at the mayor's Christmas party at Children's Mercy Hospital. The boy is in a wheelchair and attached to an IV bag. The girl is in...

Date Published
December-01-1974
December-31-1974
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

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

Girl with doll by a Christmas tree

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Five year old white girl patient sitting next to a Christmas tree holding a doll. She's posing for Children's Mercy Hospital's annual Christmas card.

Date Published
November-01-1964
November-30-1964
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

John O'Donoghue playing Santa

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John O'Donoghue, Kansas City Athletics pitcher, playing Santa Claus and entertaining African American girls in wheelchairs. They are all holding onto...

Date Published
December-19-1965
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

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 others handing out gifts or candy

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Santa Claus (white man) passing out either small gifts or candy to young patients with nurses and other adults in attendance during a Christmas party...

Date Published
December-01-1964
December-31-1964
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Santa and others helping with a Christmas stocking

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Santa Claus and two unidentified white female hospital attendees helping young patients (white girl, right, African American child, left (partially...

Date Published
December-01-1964
December-31-1964
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Santa at Children's Mercy Hospital

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Santa Claus (white man) holding sleigh bells and entertaining the children at the mayor's Christmas party. An African American female nurse can be...

Date Published
December-01-1974
December-31-1974
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 handing out gifts

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Santa Claus (white man) visiting patients and passing out Christmas presents to a group (African American girls and boys) seated before him. Other...

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

Santa jangling bells over a bed-ridden patient

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View from behind and to the side of Santa Claus (white man) ringing his bells over a white girl patient lying down in her hospital bed. A Santa doll...

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

Santa speaking with boy in a wheelchair

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Santa Claus visiting with a young boy in a wheelchair being pushed by an unidentified white man who is leaning over him from behind. A white man...

Date Published
December-01-1964
December-31-1964
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Santa visits two little girls

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A white male Santa Claus with glasses visits with two little white girls each being held by a white woman (likely their mothers) on either side of him...

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

Showing a child the Christmas tree

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Herman Sutherland (arms folded) with his wife (white) and unidentified white man showing a young white girl an aluminum Christmas tree during the open...

Date Published
December-12-1970
December-13-1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

View of attendees of a hospital Christmas party

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Children's Mercy Hospital main lobby filled with patients and various adults and decorated with streamers on the ceiling and other Christmas...

Date Published
December-01-1964
December-31-1964
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

View of attendees of a hospital Christmas party

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Children's Mercy Hospital ward decorated with streamers on the ceiling and filled with patients, nurses, and other adults participating in a Christmas...

Date Published
December-01-1964
December-31-1964
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Woman reading a story to an audience at a Christmas party

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Unidentified white woman (left) with book open in front of her reading to an audience of children and adults during a hospital Christmas party. A...

Date Published
December-01-1964
December-31-1964
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection
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Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (18)
  • Ed Dix Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (19)

Genres

  • Snapshots (19)
  • Black & white photographs (18)
  • Gelatin silver prints (18)
  • Group portraits (17)
  • Portrait photographs (2)
  • Color photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (12)
  • 1951-1960 (4)
  • 1971-1980 (2)
  • 1991-2000 (1)

Subjects

  • Children, White (17)
  • Children--Hospital care (16)
  • Hospital patients (16)
  • Men, White (13)
  • Women, White (13)
  • Boys (11)
  • African American children (9)
  • Wheelchairs (8)
  • African American women (7)
  • Nurses (6)
  • Christmas trees (5)
  • Hospitals--Employees (5)
  • Audiences (4)
  • Gifts (4)
  • Bells (3)
  • Costume (3)
  • Hospital beds (3)
  • Dolls (2)
  • Mothers and daughters (2)
  • Statues (2)
  • Toys (2)
  • African American men (1)
  • Bandages and bandaging (1)
  • Board games (1)
  • Books (1)
  • Christmas stockings (1)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Granddaughters (1)
  • Hospital administrators (1)
  • Intravenous therapy--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Offices (1)
  • Oral reading (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Pitchers (Baseball) (1)
  • Poinsettias (1)
  • Professional athletes (1)
  • Santa dolls (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Stairs (1)
  • Stuffed animals (Toys) (1)
  • Textile crafts (1)
  • (-) Christmas decorations (19)
  • (-) Girls (19)

Subjects, People

  • Santa Claus (Fictitious character) (10)
  • Austin, Gene, 1900-1972 (1)
  • Dix, Mary (1)
  • Ramsdell, Susan Dix (1)
  • Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer (Fictitious character) (1)
  • Sutherland, Herman R. (1)

Date Published

  • 1964-12-01 (6)
  • 1964-12-31 (6)
  • 1951 (4)
  • 1960 (4)
  • 1966-12-01 (2)
  • 1966-12-31 (2)
  • 1974-12-01 (2)
  • 1974-12-31 (2)
  • 1964-11-01 (1)
  • 1964-11-30 (1)
  • 1965-12-19 (1)
  • 1965-12-23 (1)
  • 1970-12-12 (1)
  • 1970-12-13 (1)
  • 1991 (1)
  • 2000 (1)

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