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Boy in traction playing in his bed

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Young white boy with legs bandaged and in traction sitting on his hospital bed playing with a toy xylophone and a toy truck next to him.

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

Boys working with string in the ward

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Three white boys working at occupational therapy with string. Two are seated on hospital beds and the boy in the middle is on a chair.

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

Check giving ceremony

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Mrs. Nourse receiving a check from an unnamed organization from Clinton, Missouri in the southwest corner of the lobby. Two white men are on the right...

Date Published
December-01-1952
December-31-1952
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Child in a hospital bed filled with linens

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Young white boy in a gown sitting up in a hospital bed that's been covered in piles of folded linens. Looking over one shoulder back at the camera.

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

Children and nurses outside on the sun porch

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Group of patients (white girls and boys) out on the third floor sun porch with four white female nurses. Some of the children are sitting on a...

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

Children outside on the sun porch

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Group of patients (white girls and boys) out on the third floor sun porch. Some of the children are sitting on a hospital bed and others are in...

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

Children outside on the sun porch

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Group of patients (white girls and boys) out on the third floor sun porch. Some of the children are sitting on a hospital bed and others are in...

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

Classroom arts and crafts time

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The Musettes (Mrs. Morton Jones and Mrs. Walter McCardy) handing out art supplies and other items to student patients (all white girls and boys) in...

Date Published
November-19-1951
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Dolores Turnage with patients

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Dolores Turnage, RN, standing in a ward of hospital beds with three white children. Two of the children are on the bed in front of her. One is seated...

Date Published
December-01-1952
December-31-1952
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo visiting a young girl patient

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Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo visiting a young white girl patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. Renaldo is standing on the right looking down...

Date Published
October-01-1953
October-31-1953
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo visiting a young male patient

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Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo visiting a young white male patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. Renaldo is standing on the left dressed as the Cisco...

Date Published
October-01-1953
October-31-1953
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo visiting a young male patient

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Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo visiting a young white male patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. Renaldo is sitting on the left dressed as the Cisco...

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

Gail Davis talking with patients

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Gail Davis talking with patients (African American and white) and female nurses (white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Davis is dressed as the Annie...

Date Published
October-23-1952
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Gene Autry standing with young patients

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Gene Autry standing with young patients (white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. A young boy is standing in front of Autry, who is holding a cowboy hat...

Date Published
October-23-1952
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 in robe with a doll

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Young white girl in a quilted robe holding a doll. She's looking over at the camera.

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

Girl receiving a sweater at Christmas

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Teenaged white girl sitting up in a hospital bed and opening a gift of a sweater on Christmas morning. She's looking forward at the unseen person who...

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

Girl with a piggy bank

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Young white girl sitting up in her hospital bed wearing a hospital gown and holding a handmade piggy bank fashioned from an old bleach bottle.

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

Girls sewing together

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White girl patient's in a hand sewing class at the sitting together and sewing. Two girls are in wheelchairs and the rest seated on hospital beds.

Date Published
June-30-1951
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Group of adolescent girls at Easter

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Group photo of nine white teenage girls; three sitting in the foreground wearing dresses and holding Easter baskets and a decorated egg (perhaps); six...

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

Laughing boy on a hospital bed

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Smiling young white boy in a striped shirt kneeling on a hospital bed or gurney. He's holding something in his hands.

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

Music class

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Children's Mercy Hospital patients (white and African American girls and boys) seated in a classroom, all in wheelchairs and hospital beds, for music...

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

Nurse with young girl in traction

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Nurse Alice Coleman with a three year old white girl lying on her stomach with her legs in traction on a hospital bed with a doll.

Date Published
January-01-1953
December-31-1953
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Ruth Thomas teaching students with visitors looking on

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Teacher Ruth Thomas providing instruction to two white girl patients who are in their hospital beds and one white boy seated at a desk in front of the...

Date Published
October-01-1953
October-31-1953
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Sewing class modeling finished items

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White girls from a sewing class held at the hospital modeling some finished items in a group picture. One girl is seated in a wheelchair, others are...

Date Published
June-30-1951
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

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Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (36)

Types

  • photographs (36)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (36)
  • Gelatin silver prints (36)
  • Snapshots (36)
  • Group portraits (25)
  • Portrait photographs (11)

Time Periods

  • (-) 1951-1960 (36)

Subjects

  • Hospital patients (36)
  • Children--Hospital care (35)
  • Children, White (34)
  • Girls (22)
  • Boys (16)
  • Women, White (13)
  • Men, White (9)
  • Wheelchairs (8)
  • Costume (6)
  • Toys (6)
  • Actors (5)
  • Bandages and bandaging (5)
  • Characters and characteristics on television (5)
  • Nurses (5)
  • Dolls (4)
  • Teachers (4)
  • African American children (3)
  • Cowboys (3)
  • Crutches (3)
  • Gifts (3)
  • Girls' clothing (3)
  • Hispanic American men (3)
  • Orthopedic traction (3)
  • Sewing--Study and teaching (3)
  • Stuffed animals (Toys) (3)
  • Christmas decorations (2)
  • Desks (2)
  • Occupational therapy for children (2)
  • Physical therapy for children (2)
  • Surgical plaster casts (2)
  • Toddlers (2)
  • Toy instruments (2)
  • Trucks--Models (2)
  • Actresses (1)
  • African American women (1)
  • Artists' materials (1)
  • Birdcages (1)
  • Board games (1)
  • Burns and scalds--Patients (1)
  • Charity (1)
  • Children's books (1)
  • Classrooms (1)
  • Clocks and watches (1)
  • Coats (1)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (1)
  • Dollhouses (1)
  • Dominoes (1)
  • Dulcimer (1)
  • Easter decorations (1)
  • Games (1)
  • Handicraft for children (1)
  • Household linens (1)
  • Jewelry (1)
  • Medical instruments and apparatus (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Oil industry workers (1)
  • Orthopedic traction--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Pajamas (1)
  • Philanthropists (1)
  • Physical therapists (1)
  • Piggy banks (1)
  • Quilts (1)
  • Restraint of patients (1)
  • Robes (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Students (1)
  • Sweaters (1)
  • Telephone (1)
  • Textile crafts (1)
  • Toy guns (1)
  • Windows (1)
  • Xylophone (1)
  • (-) Hospital beds (36)

Subjects, People

  • Carrillo, Leo (3)
  • Renaldo, Duncan (3)
  • Autry, Gene, 1907-1998 (1)
  • Boyd, William, 1895-1972 (1)
  • Coleman, Alice (1)
  • Davis, Gail (1)
  • Oakley, Annie, 1860-1926 (1)
  • Peete, Virginia (1)
  • Thomas, Ruth (Teacher) (1)
  • Turnage, Dolores (1)

Date Published

  • 1951 (22)
  • 1960 (22)
  • 1951-06-01+ (3)
  • 1951-06-30 (3)
  • 1953-10-01 (3)
  • 1953-10-31 (3)
  • 1951-11-19 (2)
  • 1952-10-23 (2)
  • 1952-12-01 (2)
  • 1952-12-31 (2)
  • 1952-10-19 (1)
  • 1953-01-01 (1)
  • 1953-12-31 (1)

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