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Boy lying in his hospital bed

Image

Young white boy lying in his hospital bed with the middle section of his body wrapped in gauze. He's playing with toys on the hospital tray table. A...

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

Boys and girls in hospital beds outside on the fourth floor porch

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Young patients (white boys and girls) lying in a row of hospital beds taking in some sun on the fourth floor porch. A few cribs are the end of the row...

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

Charities campaign parade float

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Charities Campaign parade float passing by Katz Drug Store. A mock hospital ward is on the back of a truck. Nurses, doctors, and patients (all white)...

Date Published
October-10-1942
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Child under medical instrument

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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 in a hospital classroom

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Young patients (white girls and boys) in a hospital classroom. There's a long table in the foreground with five children seated at it. Other children...

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

Children in a music lesson

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Classroom of students (three African American boys, the rest white girls and boys) who are mostly all in wheelchairs during a music lesson. Most...

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

Children in wheelchairs in the park

Image

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 listening to Peter and the Wolf in a classroom

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Patients (white girls and boys) in the hospital classroom receiving a music lesson by listening to Prokofiev's symphonic tale "Peter & the Wolf". A...

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

Doctor giving an eye exam

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Doctor (white, male) giving an eye exam at the Children's Mercy Hospital eye clinic. The young white boy patient is sitting and looking at the doctor...

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

Doctor with girl patient

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Unidentified white male doctor in suspenders and no jacket standing with his hand on young white girl's arm while she lies on examining table with a...

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

Eight boys and girls in a play room

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Eight boys and girls (all white) in a play room at Children's Mercy Hospital. Five are sitting in a mobile hospital cart. One is sitting on a hobby...

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

Eighteen year old former patient

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Portrait of an eighteen year old boy who was a patient at Children's Mercy Hospital when he was six years old.

Date Published
January-26-1950
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Former hospital patient

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White teenage girl, a former Children's Mercy Hospital patient, now 14 years old from Cassville, Mo., posing for a photo wearing a large straw hat and...

Date Published
April-22-1940
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Former hospital patient on a pony

Image

Young white boy riding on a pony in a barnyard. A cart is behind him and an unidentified white man with a cowboy hat is behind the cart. A barn and/or...

Date Published
January-01-1942
December-31-1942
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Former hospital patient with a dog

Image

Young white boy in shorts in the yard of a house with his dog. The boy is a former patient at Children's Mercy Hospital who had dislocated hips. There...

Date Published
January-01-1942
December-31-1942
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Group of children outside in the park

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Group of young patients (all white girls and boys) out on the lawn, in the area of the Children's Mercy Hospital stadium steps. Some patients are...

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

Group photo from the boys' ward

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Group photo of nine white boys of varying ages in the boys' ward. Five are standing and the others are on hospital beds behind them.

Date Published
July-01-1947
July-31-1947
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Katherine Wilson instructing young patients

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Katherine Wilson instructing young patients (all white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Wilson, the principal of the hospital school, is working with...

Date Published
January-01-1949
December-31-1949
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Katherine Wilson with a patient

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Katherine Wilson working with a young white boy patient. Wilson, the principal of the hospital school, is holding a book above a boy laying on a bed...

Date Published
January-01-1949
December-31-1949
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Lena Dagley with patients

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Lena Dagley with patients and other women (all white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Dagley is sitting at talking with three other women. A male and...

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

Lena Dagley, Elmira Collins, and Mary Becker

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Lena Dagley, Executive Secretary of Children's Mercy Hospital; Elmira Collins, President of the Women's Chamber of Commerce; and Mary Becker, Chairman...

Date Published
June-30-1948
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Margaret Reeble with young patient

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Margaret Reeble, a female white nurse at Children's Mercy Hospital, looking over a young white male patient laying on a bed. A heart monitoring device...

Date Published
February-06-1950
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Members of the Kiwanis Club presenting a check

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Eight members (all white) of the Kiwanis Club from Clinton, Missouri, presenting a check to Lena Dagley at Children's Mercy Hospital. They are...

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

Nurse Juanita Hakins holding a polio patient

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Nurse Juanita Haskins holding a white girl toddler in her arms just outside the hospital.

Date Published
January-01-1946
December-31-1946
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Nurse outside with toddlers

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Unidentified white female nurse outside with five toddlers (all white boys) in a wagon in the Children's Mercy Hospital playground area. Most of the...

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

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  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (44)

Types

  • photographs (44)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (44)
  • Gelatin silver prints (44)
  • Snapshots (44)
  • Group portraits (29)
  • Portrait photographs (15)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • (-) 1941-1950 (44)

Subjects

  • Children--Hospital care (44)
  • Children, White (43)
  • Boys (29)
  • Girls (20)
  • Women, White (19)
  • Hospital beds (16)
  • Toddlers (11)
  • Nurses (10)
  • Wheelchairs (10)
  • Men, White (7)
  • Toys (6)
  • Classrooms (5)
  • Medical instruments and apparatus (5)
  • Surgical plaster casts (5)
  • Teachers (5)
  • Bandages and bandaging (4)
  • Students (4)
  • Windows (4)
  • Charity (3)
  • Desks (3)
  • Physicians (3)
  • Secretaries (3)
  • Books (2)
  • Coloring books (2)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (2)
  • Parks (2)
  • Philanthropists (2)
  • Philanthropists--Charitable contributions (2)
  • Poliomyelitis--Patients (2)
  • Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.) (2)
  • Stairs (2)
  • Wagons (2)
  • African American children (1)
  • Airplanes--Models (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Barns (1)
  • Beads (1)
  • Blackboards (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Businessmen (1)
  • Businesswomen (1)
  • Carriages and carts (1)
  • Children's furniture (1)
  • Comics (Graphic works) (1)
  • Crayons (1)
  • Crutches (1)
  • Dogs (1)
  • Drugstores (1)
  • Drum--Study and teaching (1)
  • Dwellings (1)
  • Electric lamps (1)
  • Eye--Examination (1)
  • Fences (1)
  • Gardens (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Heart rate monitoring (1)
  • Hobbyhorses (1)
  • Hospital buildings (1)
  • Hospital wards (1)
  • Model houses (1)
  • Mothers (1)
  • Music--Study and teaching (Elementary) (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Necklaces (1)
  • Orthopedic braces (1)
  • Orthopedic traction (1)
  • Parade floats (1)
  • Play-Doh (Toy) (1)
  • Playgrounds (1)
  • Ponies (1)
  • Porches (1)
  • Rocking chairs (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Sofas (1)
  • Stables (1)
  • Stadiums (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Stone walls (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Sunspaces (1)
  • Toy instruments (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • Tricycles (1)
  • Trucks--Models (1)
  • Tuberculosis--Patients (1)
  • Tuberculosis in children (1)
  • Wall clocks (1)
  • Xylophone (1)
  • (-) Hospital patients (44)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (6)

Subjects, People

  • Dagley, Lena (3)
  • Schauffler, Robert McEwan (2)
  • Wilson, Katherine (Educator) (2)
  • Becker, Mary (Businesswoman) (1)
  • Collins, Elmira (Businesswoman) (1)
  • Durr, Elvin (1)
  • Haskins, Juanita (1)
  • Reeble, Margaret (1)

Date Published

  • 1941 (21)
  • 1950 (21)
  • 1941-01-01 (3)
  • 1941-12-31 (3)
  • 1942-01-01 (3)
  • 1942-12-31 (3)
  • 1942-09-01 (2)
  • 1946-01-01 (2)
  • 1946-12-31 (2)
  • 1949-01-01 (2)
  • 1949-12-31 (2)
  • 1940-04-22 (1)
  • 1942-10-10 (1)
  • 1942-10-15 (1)
  • 1944 (1)
  • 1944-08-01 (1)
  • 1944-08-31 (1)
  • 1945 (1)
  • 1947-07-01 (1)
  • 1947-07-31 (1)
  • 1948-06-30 (1)
  • 1950-01-26 (1)
  • 1950-02-06 (1)
  • 1952-09-01 (1)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1970 (1)

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