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Dinner event in Nurse Hall

Margaret Weaver (left) standing up from her table during a dinner event being held in Nurse Hall. Projection screen behind the attendees (all white women and men), many of whom are looking over at the camera.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00317.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281

Hospital administrators with certificates

Children's Mercy Hospital, left to right: Dr. Daniel Darrow; Mr. John Mosher; Mr. Ed McDaniel holding an award certificate and check; Mrs. Margaret Weaver; Mr. John Stockwell; Ethel Howard holding an award certificate; Dean Cowles.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00318.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281

Lobby Christmas party for the children

Christmas party in the lobby of Children's Mercy Hospital for the patients (all white boys and girls except for one African American child). Nurse Iris Jensen is standing behind the children, many of who are in wheelchairs and leg braces. Cribs with children are in the background. Rows of tinsel are hanging from the ceiling and other adults (African American and white women) are seen around the room. Teacher Ruby Bales is also among the adults in the room.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00319.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281

Girl receiving an eye exam

Young African American girl receiving an eye exam from an unidentified white male optometrist. She's wearing a measuring device and is seated next to a cabinet of various lenses. Her coin purse is in her lap.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00320.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281

Young boy with a cast on his leg

Young white male patient in a plaid shirt and shorts with a cast on his left leg and foot sitting up in a hospital bed.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00321.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281

Counting pennies

Five white boys and one white girl around a table counting pennies from a penny bank sitting on the table. Additional children (white) in the background.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00322.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281

Dr. Wayne Hart with Margaret H. Weaver and others

Dr. Wayne Hart (right, child psychiatrist) standing with Margaret H. Weaver (center) and two other unidentified white women and an unidentified white man. All are talking and laughing together.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00323.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281

Kids with plastic Santas

Group of boys (white) and girls (two white and an African American girl in a wheelchair) in a circle around two identical facing plastic Santa statues. One boy is looking directly at the camera and smiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00324.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281

Santa and his helpers giving out presents

Santa Claus (white) handing out presents to children (white and African American) at Children's Mercy Hospital with the help of Charles Wesley Pirtle (left) and Bob Paxton (right). Pirtle is in a wheelchair and his left leg has been amputated while Paxton is standing with the help of crutches. One boy is in a hospital gown and another has a cast on his arm.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00325.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281

Spinal exam

A young white boy lying face down on an examination table with his shirt off while two unidentified doctors (white) examine him. One doctor is placing a tubular instrument on his spine.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00326.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281

Patients in class at Children's Mercy Hospital

Children's Mercy Hospital school room with children (white boys and girls) sitting at desks working, while teacher Ruth Thomas is in background assisting a pupil while the principal Katherine Wilson assists a polio patient in a wheelchair.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00327.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281

Katherine Wilson helping a young boy with school work

Principal Katherine Wilson helping a young white boy with his school work at the school in Children's Mercy Hospital. The boy is looking down at his paper and holding a pencil.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00328.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281

Three soldiers with a young boy at Christmas

Three uniformed white male soldiers visiting with a young white boy holding a toy airplane in a hospital bed filled with toys at Children's Mercy Hospital. The boy is wearing a cowboy hat. Toys included a teddy bear, sock monkey, Tinker Toys, and a Lionel train set.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00329.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281

Boy with leg cast

Young white boy in a pixie hat on an examination table lying on his stomach with chin resting on his hand with some sort of metal box with dollar signs on the side. His leg is in a cast.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00330.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281

Nurse Gutowski in the Christmas spirit

Erma Gutowski, RN, wearing a Santa hat and standing next to a large Santa Claus statue. Alphabet posters are on the doors behind them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00331.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281