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Girl petting Tuffie the baby elephant

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Tuffie the Baby Elephant, with her white male handler, being petted by a white girl while surrounded by patients (African American boys) and staff...

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

Perahera

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A street in Sri Lanka is very crowded as the Perahera, an annual Buddhist procession during the Festival of the Tooth in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]...

Date Published
1894 to 1900
Member of
Jacob L. Loose Collection

Tuffie the baby elephant

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Tuffie the baby elephant and her white male handler visiting Children's Mercy Hospital. An unidentified white female nurse is watching as a white man...

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

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (2)
  • Jacob L. Loose Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (3)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (3)
  • Group portraits (3)
  • Gelatin silver prints (2)
  • Snapshots (2)
  • Albumen prints (1)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (2)

Subjects

  • African American children (2)
  • African American women (2)
  • Boys (2)
  • Captive elephants (2)
  • Children, White (2)
  • Children--Hospital care (2)
  • Elephant trainers (2)
  • Girls (2)
  • Hospital patients (2)
  • Men, White (2)
  • Nurses (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Esala Perahera (1)
  • Processions, Religious (1)
  • Sri Lankans (1)
  • (-) Crowds (3)
  • (-) Elephants (3)

Date Published

  • 1967-06-01 (2)
  • 1967-06-31 (2)
  • 1894/1900 (1)

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