An unidentified white female nurse attending to an African American baby in an incubator at Children's Mercy Hospital. The nurse is placing one hand on the back of the child. Other equipment is in the back of the room.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00108.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Dr. Dreher and Jean Kline talking with an unidentified white woman on the left at an event at Children's Mercy Hospital. Dreher and Kline are wearing nametags. The nametag for Kline reads "Central Governing Board Member." All three are wearing semi-formal attire.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00109.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Dr. Dreher and Jean Kline with an unidentified white woman on the left at an event at Children's Mercy Hospital. Dreher and Kline are wearing nametags. The nametag for Kline reads "Central Governing Board Member." All three are smiling and are wearing semi-formal attire.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00110.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Margaret Harsh and Dr. Harsh standing in between two unidentified older white women at an event at Children's Mercy Hospital. Three of them are smiling and looking at the woman on the left. Everyone is wearing semi-formal attire.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00111.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Winnie the Pooh and friends visit Children's Mercy Hospital, courtesy of Sears. The characters are standing in line along the sidewalk in front of the building. Some are waiving hands. A small crowd of men (white) and women (African American and white) is standing near the entrance of the building.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00112.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Carol Burnett visiting Children's Mercy Hospital. She is standing on the steps and is waving down at the camera. Two other white women are walking on the steps as well. There are four large stone columns and balcony over the entrance.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00113.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Carol Burnett signing the leg cast of a white teenage boy at Children's Mercy Hospital. The boy is sitting in a wheelchair. Burnett is kneeling and smiling. Other children (white) and white adult women and an African American nurse are gathered around.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00114.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Miss World America Lynda Carter visiting three patients (white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Two boys are sitting in chairs and the third is laying in a bed. They all are holding autographed photos. Everyone is looking forward and smiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00115.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson visiting an African American boy patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. Dawson is smiling while looking down at the young boy held by nurse Karen Nelson. The child is looking forward while smiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00116.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Actor George Lindsey visiting a patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. He and a white female nurse are standing over a white infant in a crib. Lindsey is talking while the nurse is smiling. Medical equipment is hanging next to the crib.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00117.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
David Newell interacting with a young African American boy patient. The actor from the show Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood is wearing his Speedy Delivery mailman costume and is holding a Daniel the Tiger hand puppet. The boy is touching the tiger while looking at it.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00118.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Jerry Cohen, general manager of the Mayor's Christmas Tree Association; Charles Wheeler, mayor of Kansas City; and Santa Claus (white) standing left to right at Children's Mercy Hospital. Wheeler is wearing a bow tie and is smiling while looking to the left. An unidentified white man is standing in back.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00119.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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 a doll and is looking forward with a slight smile.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00029.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
An unidentified white female nurse holding a white toddler girl patient. The nurse is looking down and smiling. She is also holding a doll for the girl who is looking forward.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00030.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
An unidentified white female nurse holding a white toddler girl patient. The nurse is looking forward and smiling. She is also holding a doll for the girl who is looking to the side.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00031.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
An unidentified white female nurse checking on a white infant in an incubator. The nurse is looking down and has her hands inside the incubator and is holding the infant. There is a sign on the side of the incubator that reads "Smoking in bed while unattended is prohibited by city ordinance."
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00032.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
An unidentified white female nurse sitting on stairs with two young white boys. The boy in the middle has leg braces and is sitting near a walker. The boy on the right is holding a toy car and is looking at the camera. Other female nurses (white) are standing in the back.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00033.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Five older female white Red Cross adult volunteers standing side by side in uniform. They are wearing dress uniforms with rank insignia on the sleeves. They are all looking forward and smiling. From left to right: Jean Buckner, Margaret Woodward, Mrs. Karl,; Mildred Wilson, and Mrs. C.E. Weaver.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00034.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Building for the Crippled Children's Nursery School and the Offices of Jackson County Society for Crippled Children and Adults. The building is made of bricks and the front entrance is covered with window panes.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00035.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Ilus Davis, mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, with an unidentified white female nurse in a surgical suite. They are looking up at equipment while standing next to a cabinet. Large lights are hanging from the ceiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00036.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Young men and women (all white) from Raytown High School singing at the Trench Rats Halloween Party at Children's Mercy Hospital. The men are wearing tuxedo jackets and the women are wearing tweed jackets.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00037.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Young men and women (all white) from Raytown High School singing at the Trench Rats Halloween Party at Children's Mercy Hospital. The men are wearing tuxedo jackets and the women are wearing tweed jackets. Two young white girls are to the side of the group. One girl is seated and holding a bag, the other girl is standing behind the first girl wearing a mask pushed up onto the top of her head.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00038.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Young men and women (all white) from Raytown High School singing at the Trench Rats Halloween Party at Children's Mercy Hospital. The men are wearing tuxedo jackets and the women are wearing tweed jackets. They are standing in front of an audience of boy and girl patients (African American and white). Some of the kids are wearing costumes and masks. Others are sitting in wheelchairs or are in hospital beds. Men (white) and women (African American and white) are along the walls. Two of the men in the back are wearing Shiner Fezzes.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00039.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Patients (two white girls, one partially seen child, and an African American boy) watching an unidentified white woman sing and play at the Trench Rat's Halloween Party at Children's Mercy Hospital. Some of the children are wearing costumes, including one in a skeleton costume. Others are in wheelchairs and a hospital bed. The woman singing is in the center of the room playing a guitar while looking forward. Two white women and a white male are seen behind the children watching.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00040.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Young white girl in a dancer's costume performing a dance routine at the Trench Rats Halloween Party at Children's Mercy Hospital. The girl is pointing with both hands while walking across the room. Children (African American and white) are sitting in wheelchairs and some are wearing costumes. One child is in a hospital bed against the wall. Other adult white women and men, including one African American female nurse are also watching.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00041.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Snoopy dressed as his Red Baron character interacting with child patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. The white boy in the center is wearing a body brace and football helmet while being held by a female nurse. The white girl on the left is sitting in a wheelchair and has braces on her leg. A female African American nurse is behind the two children, leaning down to help them and smiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00042.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Snoopy dressed as his Red Baron character interacting with child patients (African American and white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. A toddler is sitting and crying in the center of the room. A white female nurse is leaning over to comfort the child. Another white man and children, one in a rocking horse, are looking on in back.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00043.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Children and adults (African American and white) in an open carriage for the Buckaroo Roundup entry in the American Royal Parade. Torey Southwicke is hanging off the back of the cart. Unidentified females nurses, children, and female volunteer candy stripers are sitting and standing in the cart. There are two signs on the cart that read "Thanks kids from Children's Mercy Hospital" with the logo for channel 9 TV.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00044.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Children and adults (all white in this view) in an open carriage for the Buckaroo Roundup entry in the American Royal Parade. Torey Southwicke is standing by the back wheel holding hands with a child in the cart. An unidentified woman is sitting in front with a man holding the reins on two horses. The horses are wearing a sign that reads "Benjamin Stables." There is a sign on the cart that reads "Thanks kids from Children's Mercy Hospital" with the logo for channel 9 TV.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00045.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Children (white) and adults (white and one African American female candy striper) in an open carriage for the Buckaroo Roundup Entry in the American Royal Parade. Two unidentified drivers are sitting in front holding the reins on two horses. An unidentified white woman and children are sitting in back. The horses are wearing a sign that reads "Benjamin Stables." There is a sign on the cart that reads "Thanks kids from Children's Mercy Hospital." The carriage is in front of Ruback's Jewelers.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00046.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Torey Southwicke with Dr. Ned Smull's daughter (both white). They are holding an Ol' Gus's Good Kid Club Award Certificate while looking forward and smiling. Southwicke is sitting behind the girl. He is wearing a hat and glasses. The girl is wearing a sweater and plaid skirt. Other people (white) are sitting on a bench behind them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00047.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Torey Southwicke and young children (African American and white) at an unidentified location in Kansas City, Missouri. Several children are wearing stickers that read "Hard Workin' Buckaroos." Southwicke is standing in the back. Everyone is smiling and waiving while looking forward.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00048.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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 smiling at the white boy who is in a crib and holding the bars.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00049.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Ken Curtis talking with Dr. Ned Smull from Children's Mercy Hospital. Curtis is dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke. A small white boy is standing in the center and is looking up. Smull is holding his hands in the pockets of a lab coat.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00050.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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 while talking to the boy. The child is sitting in a crib and is looking up. An unidentified white woman is standing behind Curtis.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00051.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Ken Curtis signing an autograph for an African American boy patient on a surgical bed. Curtis is dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke. The boy is sitting up and is smiling. Two unidentified nurses, one African American the other white, wearing surgical outfits are watching from behind the bed while smiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00052.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Ken Curtis talking with two white boys at Children's Mercy Hospital. Curtis is dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke. He is leaning down on a table where one boy is sitting. Both boys are wearing white shirts and are looking up at him. An unidentified African American woman is standing in the back and is smiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00053.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Ken Curtis talking with a white boy on a hospital bed in Children's Mercy Hospital. Curtis is dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke. He is leaning forward and looking down at the boy in the bed. The boy has a book on a book holder over the bed. Other boys (African American and white) are on hospital beds behind them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00054.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Ken Curtis standing at the emergency room entrance of Children's Mercy Hospital. Curtis is dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke. He is leaning on a rail and looking forward. A sign on the rail reads "The Children's Mercy Hospital Clinic & Emergency Room Entrance."
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00055.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Ken Curtis greeting four girls (two African American and two white) and a white woman at Children's Mercy Hospital. Curtis is dressed as Festus from the TV show Gunsmoke. He is leaning down to shake hands with one of the African American girls who is looking up and smiling. The woman in back is looking down at the girls and is smiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00056.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Promotional photo of Tex Chambers and his trained dogs. Chambers is sitting on a bench with two dogs, Zest & Spaghetti. One dog is sitting on his lap. The other is climbing up his back.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00057.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Promotional photo Tex Chambers and his trained dogs. Chambers is standing behind a covered wagon. Zest is standing in the wagon. Spaghetti is pulling the wagon. Bags of Chuck Wagon Dog Food are resting in front of the wagon. Chambers is looking forward and smiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00058.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Tex Chambers performing with his trained dog Zest. Chambers is standing next to a platform with his dog. They are in front of a group of boy and girl patients (African American and white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. The children are sitting in chairs and wheelchairs. Three white women are sitting in back as well.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00059.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Tex Chambers performing with his trained dog Zest. Chambers is standing next to a platform with his dog. Zest is bowing his head forward. They are in front of a group of boy and girl patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. The children (African American and white) are sitting in chairs and wheelchairs. Three female nurses (two white, one African American) are sitting in back as well.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00060.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Tex Chambers performing with his trained dog Zest. Chambers is standing in front of a platform with his dog. Zest is laying down on the platform. They are in front of a group of boy and girl patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. The children (African American and white) are sitting in chairs and wheelchairs. Three white women, including a nurse, are sitting in the back as well.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00061.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Tex Chambers performing with his trained dog Zest. Chambers is bending down while Zest climbs on his back. They are in front of a group of boy and girl patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. The children (African American and white) are sitting in chairs and wheelchairs. Two white women, at least one a nurse, are sitting in the back as well.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00062.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Tex Chambers performing with his trained dog Spaghetti. The dog is in a large box on a carpeted stage. They are in front of a group of boy and girl patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. The children (African American and white) are sitting in chairs and wheelchairs. Two white women, at least one a nurse, are sitting in the back as well.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00063.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Howard Benjamin, wearing a cowboy hat, and representatives of the Kansas City J.C. (all white men) standing with Dr. Ned Smull at Children's Mercy Hospital. An unidentified white woman holding a pair of sunglasses is standing beside Smull. They are presenting a check for $1,000.00 to Smull. Smull is looking up and to the left while smiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00064.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
A crowd of young patients and staff watching a performance at Children's Mercy Hospital. The Young Americans Choir is singing off camera. The children (African American and white) are sitting in chairs and wheelchairs. One African American girl is seated on a white female nurse's lap and sucking her thumb. Other adults (African American and white) are sitting along the side and back walls.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00065.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Members of the Young Americans Choir singing in a hospital room at Children's Mercy Hospital. The choir members (men and women, all white except for one African American man) are standing around a hospital bed with a white child under the sheets.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00066.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Members of the Young Americans Choir singing in a hospital room at Children's Mercy Hospital. The choir members (men and women, all white except for one African American man) are standing around a hospital bed with a white child under the sheets and arm bandaged.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00067.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Members of the Young Americans Choir singing in a hospital room at Children's Mercy Hospital. The choir members (men and women, all white except for one African American man leaning against the end of the bed) are standing around a hospital bed with a white child under the sheets and arm bandaged.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00068.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Members of the Young Americans Choir visiting a hospital room at Children's Mercy Hospital. The choir members (men and women; white with an African American man) are standing around two hospital beds. One white man is excitedly reading a pamphlet while standing next to a young white boy in bed.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00069.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Members of the Young Americans Choir (two white women, three white men, one African American man) speaking with Dr. Chic Ward at Children's Mercy Hospital. Ward is wearing a lab coat and is standing on the right. They are standing next to equipment.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00070.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Members of the Young Americans Choir (three white women, three white men, one African American man) with Dr. Chic Ward in the Cardiovascular Lab of Children's Mercy Hospital. They are looking down at equipment while talking.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00071.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
A white female member of the Young American Choir performing for patients and staff at Children's Mercy Hospital. The woman is holding one arm up to her chest while singing. Children (white and African American) on the right are looking at the woman and is smiling. Female nurses and male doctors or orderlies (all white) are standing in a doorway looking on. Some children are in wheelchairs.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00072.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Members of the Young Americans Choir performing in a stairwell of Children's Mercy Hospital. Young men (white with one African American) and women (white with one African American) are standing on the stairs as they are singing.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00073.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Children's Mercy Hospital Staff watching a performance of the Young America Choir. The choir is off-camera. The physicians (white), nurses(white), and other adults (white with two African American men) are looking to the right.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00074.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo visiting a group of child patients (all white except one African American girl) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Renaldo is standing in the back left, dressed at the Cisco Kid. Carrillo is standing in the back right, dressed as Pancho from The Cisco Kid television series. The children are standing and sitting in three rows. Most of them are smiling. The girl in the center is holding publicity photos.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00167.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
Leo Carrillo visiting young white male patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. Carrillo is dressed as Pancho from The Cisco Kid television series. He is holding publicity photos in one hand. The kid in the center is wearing Pancho's sombrero. Both boys are sitting and looking up.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00168.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
