Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Description
This not-for-profit hospital was founded in Kansas City in 1897 by two sisters, Alice Berry Graham and Katherine Richardson to serve the poor and ill children of the area. This collection features photos of patients, staff, and volunteers all through the hospital's history.
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Vic Pellot talking with a young male patient

Vic Pellot talking with a young white male patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. Pellot, also known as "Vic Power", and was the 1st Baseman for Kansas City Athletics, is holding a photo with the boy. They are smiling and sitting in front of a floral display.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00165.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Burt Ward visiting a young boy

Burt Ward visiting a young white boy at Children's Mercy Hospital. Ward is dressed as the character Robin from the Batman show. Ward is kneeling next to the boy in a wheelchair and is holding some publicity photos. Female nurses (African American and white) can be partially seen in the background.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00163.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Governor Hearnes visiting a young patient

Governor Warren Hearnes visiting a young white male patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. Hearnes is reading from a book called Bedtime Stories and is smiling. The boy is laying on a bed and is laughing.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00164.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Healthy infant patient

Healthy white infant patient depicted in a previous photograph after ten months of recovery. The child is laying in the lap of a white woman, likely either Dr. Katharine Richardson or her sister Dr. Alice Berry Graham. She is leaning down and looking at the child who is holding her hand. She is wearing a white dress and hat.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00175.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Emaciated infant patient

Emaciated white infant patient laying on the lap of a white woman, likely either Dr. Katharine Richardson or her sister Dr. Alice Berry Graham. She is looking down while leaning on a side table. There are towels on her lap and the table embroidered with the name Mercy Hospital.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00174.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo visiting a young male patient

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 Kid. Carrillo is standing on the right dressed as Pancho from The Cisco Kid television show. The boy in the center is wearing Pancho's sombrero and has a leg in a sling. He is looking forward and smiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00171.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Young male patient in a public examination

Young African American boy patient in a public examination at a clinic. The boy is sitting on a hospital bed with a white male doctor sitting and holding the boy. Female nurses (African American and white) and other male doctors (African American and white) are standing and sitting around the clinic, watching the examination or looking forward. Writing on the photo reads "First Clinic of Mercy Wheatley Ward with Dr. Robert Schauffler demonstrating."
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00177.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Unidentified doctor in an operating room

An unidentified white male doctor in an operating room at the Children's Mercy Hospital building at 1710 Independence Avenue Building. There is a utility room, an autoclave in the background, and cans of ether on small table behind the doctor. The doctor is sitting on a stool with his legs crossed.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00178.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Unidentified woman visiting a young male patient

An unidentified white woman visiting a young white male patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. The woman is wearing a dress with floral designs and a beaded choker necklace. She is kneeling and smiling while holding the boy's head. The boy is standing with crutches and is wearing leg braces.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00173.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Unidentified woman visiting a young female patient

An unidentified white woman visiting a young white girl patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. The woman is wearing a dress with floral designs and a beaded choker necklace. She is looking down at the girl and smiling. They are both sitting on a hospital bed and holding a book.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00172.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Doctors and nurses performing surgery

Doctors (white, men) and nurses (white, women) performing surgery in an operating room at the Children's Mercy Hospital building at 1710 Independence Avenue Building. There is a utility room, an autoclave in the background, and cans of ether on a small table against the wall. Three doctors are standing at one end of the operating table looking down. Two women are sitting and standing nearby. Another woman is standing in the middle of the room and another is standing in the back room.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00179.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Group of doctors, nurses, nuns, and administrators

Group of doctors, nurses, nuns, and administrators (everyone is white) at the Second Southwestern Institute for Hospital Administrators at Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. Several rows of people are standing on a stone stairway looking forward while smiling. Everyone is wearing suits and dresses. There is additional writing on the front identifying people in the photo.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00181.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Children's Mercy Hospital Resident Physicians

Five physicians (white, men) standing on a staircase at Children's Mercy Hospital. The physicians are identified, left to right, as Jack Vernon Sharp, John C. Mac Queen, Charles E. Vilmer, Julius M. Kantor, and Russell Alan Nelson. They are all wearing white and are smiling while looking forward. Text on the photo reads "The Children's Mercy Hospital Resident Physicians Feb. 1947."
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00186.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Group photo of doctors and administrators

Group photo of doctors and administrators at the First Institute for Hospital Administrators in Chicago. There are dozens of people (all white) sitting and standing on a large stone stairway outdoors. Everyone is looking forward and smiling. The bottom of the photo reads "Institute for Hospital Administrators 1938."
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00180.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Board members, nurses, physicians, and a patient

Board members, nurses, physicians, and a patient (all white) with KMBC radio journalists at Children's Mercy Hospital. They are sitting in a circle talking into a microphone. The young boy is sitting in a wheelchair next to a nurse. They are identified as "R.R. Brewster Sr., chairman of the board of Children's Mercy Hospital; Bonnie Phillips, nurse; Margaret Heckel, KMBC Radio; Dr. Schauffler, staff; Mrs. Hatcher. board member; Mrs. Servatuss, board member; Mrs. Kearney, teacher; Elizabeth Martin, superintendent; and Mrs. Harlan, director of nurses".
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00183.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281