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Baby with both legs in traction

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White infant laying on its back in a hospital crib with both legs wrapped and suspended straight up in traction.

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

Bob Random visiting young patients

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Bob Random visiting with young patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. The Iron Horse actor is standing on the right and looking down at patient...

Date Published
August-30-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Combing a patient's hair

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Unidentified white female nurse combing a white toddler boy's hair as he sits in his hospital crib.

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

Dr. Smull and Ilus Davis talking with a mother and child

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Dr. Ned Smull in a lab coat leaning over a table with Kansas City mayor Ilus Davis to talk with a mother and her daughter (both white) in one of the...

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

Dr. Smull showing Ilus Davis a ward of children

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Dr. Ned Smull in a lab coat standing with Kansas City mayor Ilus Davis in one of the hospitals wards. A young white girl is seated across from them in...

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

Getting a patient ready for the move

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Nurse Diane Galardi getting a white girl patient in a crib ready to move to the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. Galardi is wearing a winter...

Date Published
December-17-1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Ken Curtis visiting a toddler in his crib

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Ken Curtis dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke, hat off, bent over to visit with a white boy toddler in his crib.

Date Published
October-19-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Ken Curtis visiting a young boy patient

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Ken Curtis visiting a young white boy patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. Curtis is dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke. He is pointing up...

Date Published
October-19-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Ken Curtis visiting a young boy patient

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Ken Curtis visiting a young boy patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. Curtis is dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke. He is looking down and...

Date Published
October-19-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Ken Curtis visiting patients

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Ken Curtis dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke with his arm around a white toddler boy in a hospital gown while other patients (white girls)...

Date Published
October-19-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Moving a crib into the new building

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Unidentified white male hospital employee moving a crib along the pavement into the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. The crib has medical...

Date Published
December-17-1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Nurse attending an infant on the baby ward

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Unidentified white female nurse leaning over a crib in the baby ward. Photo taken from inside an office looking out into the ward.

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

Nurses about to move a young patient

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Nurses Debbie Collier (left) and Betty Lynch (right) in overcoats standing bedside a crib with a young African American girl patient to be moved into...

Date Published
December-17-1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Nurses working in a hospital ward

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Female nurses (African American and white) working in a hospital ward of Children's Mercy Hospital. A few child patients (African American and white)...

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

Santa Claus and a candy striper with a young boy

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Santa Claus (white) and a white female candy striper with a young white boy patient in a crib at the Wendy Ward Christmas Party. The child is laying...

Date Published
December-10-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Santa Claus and a young woman next to a young boy

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Santa Claus (white) and a young African American woman visiting a young African American boy patient. The boy is sitting up in a crib with one foot...

Date Published
December-10-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Sharon Ellis with girl in a crib

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Sharon Ellis standing next to hospital crib with a African American girl patient lying down. Ellis is holding her hand and the girl is looking over at...

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

Snoopy visiting a young patient in a crib

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Snoopy, dressed in his WWI flying ace costume, visiting with a young white patient sitting up in a hospital crib and looking toward the left of the...

Date Published
October-17-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Unidentified female nurse with toddler girl patient

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An unidentified white female nurse with young white girl patient in a crib. The nurse is leaning down and touching the girl's leg. The girl is holding...

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

Unloading a child in a crib from an Red Cross truck

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A white male doctor and another unidentified white man putting the wheels back onto a hospital crib after unloading it from the back of a Red Cross...

Date Published
January-01-1970
December-31-1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Unloading a crib from an ambulance

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White male photographer seen taking a close-up photo of a crib with medical equipment in it being unloaded from a Red Cross ambulance by an African...

Date Published
December-17-1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

View of the receiving ward

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View of a the receiving ward including several cribs and the cubicles used to help stop the spread of communicable diseases.

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

Volunteers checking infants in cribs

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Volunteers (white women) in light mint green dresses with red crosses on their sleeves in a baby ward checking on patients in the cribs.

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

Young boy in a crib with a book

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Young white boy in a patterned shirt sitting up in a hospital crib with a book in his lap and he's folding something. He's smiling and his eyes are...

Date Published
January-01-1961
December-31-1961
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Young boy patient with doll

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Young African American boy patient sitting up in his hospital crib and holding onto a doll in his lap. Looking at the camera and smiling.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection
  • Clear selected
  • Cribs (Children's furniture)
  • 1961-1970

Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (25)

Types

  • photographs (25)

Genres

  • Snapshots (25)
  • Black & white photographs (24)
  • Gelatin silver prints (24)
  • Group portraits (20)
  • Portrait photographs (4)
  • Architectural photographs (1)
  • Color photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • (-) 1961-1970 (25)

Subjects

  • Children--Hospital care (21)
  • Hospital patients (19)
  • Children, White (14)
  • Women, White (14)
  • Men, White (11)
  • Nurses (11)
  • Boys (9)
  • African American children (8)
  • Girls (8)
  • Costume (5)
  • Bandages and bandaging (4)
  • Cowboys (4)
  • Medical instruments and apparatus (4)
  • Toddlers (4)
  • Actors (3)
  • African American women (3)
  • Cameras (3)
  • Characters and characteristics on television (3)
  • Physicians (3)
  • Ambulances (2)
  • Celebrities (2)
  • Christmas (2)
  • Coats (2)
  • Dolls (2)
  • Hospital beds (2)
  • Hospital wards (2)
  • Mayors (2)
  • Mothers and daughters (2)
  • Orthopedic traction (2)
  • Parking lots (2)
  • Photographers (2)
  • Volunteer workers in hospitals (2)
  • Awnings (1)
  • Books (1)
  • Camera operators (1)
  • Cartoon characters (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Combs (1)
  • Communicable diseases in children--Prevention (1)
  • Hospitals--Employees (1)
  • Infants (1)
  • Intravenous therapy--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Intravenous therapy for children (1)
  • Notebooks (1)
  • Pistols (1)
  • Toys (1)
  • Trucks--Models (1)
  • Vans (1)
  • (-) Cribs (Children's furniture) (25)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Gillham Road, Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Curtis, Ken, 1916-1991 (4)
  • Davis, Ilus W., 1917-1996 (2)
  • Santa Claus (Fictitious character) (2)
  • Smull, Ned (2)
  • Collier, Debbie (Nurse) (1)
  • Ellis, Sharon (Nurse) (1)
  • Galardi, Diane (1)
  • Lynch, Betty (Nurse) (1)
  • Random, Bob, 1943- (1)
  • Snoopy (Fictitious character) (1)

Date Published

  • 1961 (4)
  • 1967-10-19 (4)
  • 1970 (4)
  • 1970-12-17 (4)
  • 1965-12-23 (2)
  • 1967-12-10 (2)
  • 1961-01-01 (1)
  • 1961-12-31 (1)
  • 1964-01-01 (1)
  • 1964-12-31 (1)
  • 1966-01-01 (1)
  • 1966-05-01 (1)
  • 1966-05-31 (1)
  • 1966-07-01 (1)
  • 1966-07-31 (1)
  • 1966-12-31 (1)
  • 1967-08-30 (1)
  • 1967-10-17 (1)
  • 1967-12-01 (1)
  • 1967-12-31 (1)
  • 1970-01-01 (1)
  • 1970-12-31 (1)

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