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Agnes Messersmith with her son

Image

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

Audience applauding during event for teen volunteers

Image

Crowd of people (Teens and adults, all white) seated at picnic style tables during a presentation of awards during an event to honor the hospital's...

Date Published
September-09-1995
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Boy and girl talking outside

Image

Young white girl and boy outside in a poor neighborhood talking with each other. The boy is wearing a hat and jacket and seated on a overturned wooden...

Date Published
1901
1910
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Boy holding Easter basket by Easter Bunny statue

Image

Little white boy smiling and holding an Easter basket in his left hand and a stuffed animal in his right while standing in front of a statue of the...

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

Boy in oversized t-shirt

Image

Young white boy in an oversized Run t-shirt holding a water pitcher and standing next to a set of cups set up along the race route for the Hospital...

Date Published
May-01-1989
May-31-1989
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Boy speaking with girl on crutches

Image

White boy seated on an overturned basket and wearing a hat speaking to a white girl wearing a bow in her hair, standing in front of him using crutches...

Date Published
1911
1920
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Boy standing near large Easter Bunny statue

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Little white boy smiling and standing on the hospital lawn on one side of a mesh fence with a large statue of the Easter Bunny on the other.

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

Boy standing on the sidewalk in a flat cap

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An unidentified African American boy stands on the street wearing a flat cap in Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
May-1954
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Boy standing on the sidewalk in a flat cap and holding his thumb in his pocket

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An unidentified African American boy stands on the street wearing a flat cap and holding his thumb in his pocket in Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
May-1954
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Child under medical instrument

Image

White boy patient lying on an examining table with an unidentified domed machine covering middle portion of his body. Looking over at the camera.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children and adults in group photo on the lawn

Image

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

Children in wheelchairs in the park

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Row of white children (one girl, the rest boys) in wheelchairs riding on the Blue Bird Walk that encircled the back yard stadium of Children's Mercy...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children on the playground

Image

Children (white girls and boys) playing in the playground on the swings with one unidentified white man helping a small child on the seesaw. Stadium...

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

Children on the playground

Image

Children (An African American girl, a white boy, and two white girls) seen playing on the seesaw and swings on the playground. Stadium steps in...

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

Children outside on the lawn

Image

Ten white girls and boys outside on the hospital lawn posing for a photo. Six are seated in a rolling hospital cart; one girl is seated on a tricycle...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children playing on the swings

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One white girl being pushed on the swings on the playground by a Junior Volunteer with five other children (two African American girls, two white...

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

Children playing on the swings

Image

Children (white girls and boys) playing on the swings on the playground with Junior Volunteers supervising them and giving them pushes.

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

Children visiting Phoenix Books

Image

Unidentified white woman leading two small white children (a girl and a boy) around by the hand to look at Phoenix Books during its grand opening; the...

Date Published
March-07-1992
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Crowd around the boar statue on the Plaza

Image

Crowd of men, women, boys, and girls (all white) around the Children's Mercy Hospital boar statue on the Country Club Plaza. Many appear to be wearing...

Date Published
April-01-1965
April-30-1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Crowd at the cornerstone laying

Image

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

Dedication of the bronze boar fountain

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Officials and children (all white) gathered around the bronze boar fountain on the Country Club Plaza during its third dedication for Children's Mercy...

Date Published
May-18-1964
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Doug Speight with Flat Sam after a long day of travel

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Doug Speight with Flat Samantha. Doug Speight, a boy, sitting on the floor wearing a walrus mask and holding a stuffed penguin and Flat Samantha. A...

Date Published
December-01-1999
Member of
Patricia Huyett Collection

Dr. Richardson, Dr. Francisco and others posing with the hospital cornerstone

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Dr. Katharine Richardson (left) and Dr. Francisco (right) standing with white girl and boy patients and two unidentified white women by the Children's...

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

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  • Kansas City (Mo.)

Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (61)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (5)
  • 1968 Riot Collection (3)
  • GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection (3)
  • Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection (3)
  • Baron Missakian Collection (1)
  • Male toddler sitting on a stone wall (1)
  • Patricia Huyett Collection (1)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (1)
  • Toddler wearing a wide lace collar (1)
  • Young boy wearing a coat (1)

Types

  • photographs (81)

Genres

  • Snapshots (71)
  • Black & white photographs (69)
  • Gelatin silver prints (68)
  • Group portraits (59)
  • Portrait photographs (17)
  • Color photographs (12)
  • Card photographs (6)
  • Cityscape photographs (4)
  • Lithographs (3)
  • Cartes de visite (2)
  • Slides (2)
  • Transparencies (2)

Time Periods

  • 1921-1930 (21)
  • 1961-1970 (13)
  • 1991-2000 (9)
  • 1911-1920 (7)
  • 1941-1950 (7)
  • 1881-1890 (6)
  • 1901-1910 (6)
  • 1951-1960 (6)
  • 1931-1940 (3)
  • 1981-1990 (3)
  • 1971-1980 (1)

Subjects

  • Children, White (65)
  • Women, White (42)
  • Children--Hospital care (39)
  • Hospital patients (39)
  • Girls (28)
  • Nurses (25)
  • African American children (21)
  • Men, White (16)
  • Hospital buildings (13)
  • Toddlers (13)
  • Trees (11)
  • Crutches (8)
  • Tricycles (8)
  • Wheelchairs (7)
  • Buildings (6)
  • Vintage clothing (6)
  • Volunteer workers in hospitals (6)
  • Statues (5)
  • Audiences (4)
  • Bandages and bandaging (4)
  • Cities and towns (4)
  • Fences (4)
  • Hats (4)
  • Playgrounds--Equipment and supplies (4)
  • Streets (4)
  • Advertising (3)
  • Ambulances (3)
  • Civil rights movements (3)
  • Dwellings (3)
  • Families (3)
  • Fountains (3)
  • Graphic design (Typography) (3)
  • Hospital administrators (3)
  • Independent bookstores (3)
  • Parks (3)
  • Slums (3)
  • Wild boar (3)
  • African American men (2)
  • African American women (2)
  • Anniversaries (2)
  • Banners (2)
  • Baskets (2)
  • Books (2)
  • Building sites (2)
  • Businessmen (2)
  • Children (2)
  • Conversation (2)
  • Cornerstone laying (2)
  • Costume (2)
  • Crowds (2)
  • Doors (2)
  • Drinking cups (2)
  • Easter Bunny (2)
  • Flowers (2)
  • Mothers and sons (2)
  • Police (2)
  • Potato chips (2)
  • Running races (2)
  • Seesaw (2)
  • Shelving for books (2)
  • Snack foods (2)
  • Stairs (2)
  • Surgical plaster casts (2)
  • Swings (2)
  • T-shirts (2)
  • Volunteers (2)
  • Wagons (2)
  • Women's History Month (2)
  • Artists' studios (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Award presentations (1)
  • Awnings (1)
  • Balloons (1)
  • Barrels (1)
  • Baseball players (1)
  • Beds (1)
  • Benches (1)
  • Boy Scouts (1)
  • Brothers and sisters (1)
  • Canning and preserving (1)
  • Canning and preserving--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Carriages and carts (1)
  • Characters and characteristics in literature (1)
  • Children--Travel (1)
  • Children with disabilities (1)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (1)
  • Easter decorations (1)
  • Easter eggs (1)
  • Employees (1)
  • Face painting (1)
  • Fathers and sons (1)
  • Film posters (1)
  • Golf clubs (Sporting goods) (1)
  • Horsemanship (1)
  • Horses (1)
  • Hospital beds (1)
  • Hospitals--Employees (1)
  • Hotels (1)
  • Infants (1)
  • Laundry (1)
  • Lectures and lecturing (1)
  • Medical instruments and apparatus (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Miniature golf (1)
  • Mothers (1)
  • Motion picture studios (1)
  • Office furniture (1)
  • Orthopedic braces (1)
  • Pedestrians (1)
  • Physicians (1)
  • Pitchers (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Playgrounds (1)
  • Politicians (1)
  • Reading (1)
  • Ribbons (1)
  • Scout leaders (1)
  • Stables (1)
  • Stadiums (1)
  • Stone walls (1)
  • Storefronts (1)
  • Students (1)
  • Stuffed animals (Toys) (1)
  • Teenage boys, White (1)
  • Tenement houses (1)
  • Toys (1)
  • Travel (1)
  • Travelers (1)
  • Travel in literature (1)
  • Uniforms (1)
  • Vandalism (1)
  • Windows (1)
  • (-) Boys (81)

Subjects, Community

  • LGBTQ+ activism (3)
  • LGBTQ+ events (3)
  • Women's bookshops (3)
  • Gay liberation (2)
  • LGBTQ+ activists (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Vine Street (1)
  • (-) Kansas City (Mo.) (81)

Subjects, People

  • West, Harriet (3)
  • Francisco, C. B., 1880-1944 (2)
  • Nichols, Miller, 1911-2000 (2)
  • Thomson, David P., 1850- (2)
  • Bolling, Richard, 1916-1991 (1)
  • Fenner, Anna (1)
  • Graham, Alice Berry, 1850-1913 (1)
  • Hoover, O. U. (1)
  • Kelley, Winifred (1)
  • Martin, Elizabeth (Superintendent) (1)
  • Messersmith, Agnes (1)
  • Panzero, Mary (1)
  • Richardson, Katharine, 1858-1933 (1)
  • Seidlitz, Laurie (1)
  • Smull, Ned (1)
  • Speight, Doug (1)
  • Stockwell, John F. (1)
  • Weaver, Margaret (1)

Events

  • Hospital Hill Run (1989 : Kansas City, Mo.) (2)

Date Published

  • 1921 (14)
  • 1930 (14)
  • 1901 (6)
  • 1910 (6)
  • 1941 (6)
  • 1950 (6)
  • 1966-08-01 (4)
  • 1966-08-31 (4)
  • 1925-01-01 (3)
  • 1925-12-31 (3)
  • 1964-05-18 (3)
  • 1995-01-01 (3)
  • 1995-12-31 (3)
  • 1916-01-01 (2)
  • 1916-12-31 (2)
  • 1920-01-01 (2)
  • 1920-12-31 (2)
  • 1922-01-01 (2)
  • 1922-12-31 (2)
  • 1931 (2)
  • 1940 (2)
  • 1951 (2)
  • 1953-09 (2)
  • 1954-05 (2)
  • 1960 (2)
  • 1968-04-09 (2)
  • 1970 (2)
  • 1989-05-01 (2)
  • 1989-05-31 (2)
  • 1993-03-20 (2)
  • 1995-09-09 (2)
  • 1911 (1)
  • 1912-11-28 (1)
  • 1915-08-29 (1)
  • 1920 (1)
  • 1922 (1)
  • 1923 (1)
  • 1928 (1)
  • 1933 (1)
  • 1942-01-01 (1)
  • 1942-12-31 (1)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1965 (1)
  • 1965-04-01 (1)
  • 1965-04-30 (1)
  • 1968-04-10 (1)
  • 1971 (1)
  • 1980 (1)
  • 1981 (1)
  • 1990 (1)
  • 1992-03-07 (1)
  • 1999-12-01 (1)

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