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Baby elephant gets a meal

Image

Candy, the baby elephant at the Bronx Zoo, from her right side, is being fed straw by a white male keeper, from his left side, kneeling down to hold...

Date Published
1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Dr. Katharine Richardson and Lena Dagley

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Dr. Katharine Richardson and Lena Dagley working in an office at 121 Clinton Place at Children's Mercy Hospital. Richardson is sitting at a desk in...

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

elephant with two men

Image

In a profile photograph, an unidentified man sits on the neck of an elephant and rides as another unidentified man, called a mahout (trainer, keeper)...

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

Girl petting Tuffie the baby elephant

Image

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

Jay McShann and three others

Image

Jay McShann posing for a photo with three unidentified white men during a trip to Germany and Austria; the man in the back is making some sort of...

Date Published
November-1991
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Perahera

Image

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

Performing elephant

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Audience on the stadium steps at Children's Mercy Hospital watching a man standing up on the back of a performing elephant.

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

Tuffie the baby elephant

Image

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

Tuffie the baby elephant

Image

Tuffie the Baby Elephant with white male handler and two white teenage girls, one with a nametag, in the hospital corridor. A white female nurse is...

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

Tuffie the baby elephant visiting a patient

Image

Tuffie the baby elephant with her white male handler visiting an African American boy's beside. Tuffie has her trunk under the boy's blankets. Nurse...

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

Winnie-the-Pooh and the Heffalump visit the children

Image

Winnie the Pooh and the Heffalump characters interacting with patients in the corridor. One white child is in a wheelchair with back to camera and...

Date Published
January-01-1972
December-31-1972
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection
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Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (7)
  • Jacob L. Loose Collection (2)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)
  • Ted Malone Collection (1)

Types

  • (-) photographs (11)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (10)
  • Group portraits (9)
  • Gelatin silver prints (8)
  • Snapshots (8)
  • Albumen prints (2)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)
  • Color photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (4)
  • 1921-1930 (2)
  • 1951-1960 (1)
  • 1971-1980 (1)
  • 1991-2000 (1)

Subjects

  • Men, White (6)
  • Elephant trainers (5)
  • Women, White (5)
  • African American children (4)
  • Boys (4)
  • Captive elephants (4)
  • Children--Hospital care (4)
  • Hospital patients (4)
  • Nurses (4)
  • Children, White (3)
  • Crowds (3)
  • African American women (2)
  • Girls (2)
  • Sri Lankans (2)
  • Accordion (1)
  • Accordionists (1)
  • African American jazz musicians (1)
  • African American men (1)
  • Animal trainers (1)
  • Asiatic elephants (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Blankets (1)
  • Cartoon characters (1)
  • Circus animals (1)
  • Costume (1)
  • Esala Perahera (1)
  • Hospital administrators (1)
  • Hospital beds (1)
  • Hospitals--Employees (1)
  • Jazz musicians (1)
  • Men (1)
  • Offices (1)
  • Physicians (1)
  • Processions, Religious (1)
  • Secretaries (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Taxidermy (1)
  • Tusks (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • Zoo keepers (1)
  • Zoos (1)
  • (-) Elephants (11)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)
  • New York (N.Y.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Belt, Carol (1)
  • Dagley, Lena (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Richardson, Katharine, 1858-1933 (1)
  • Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character) (1)

Date Published

  • 1967-06-01 (4)
  • 1967-06-31 (4)
  • 1894/1900 (2)
  • 1921 (2)
  • 1930 (2)
  • 1953 (1)
  • 1972-01-01 (1)
  • 1972-12-31 (1)
  • 1991-11 (1)

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