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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LaBudde Special Collections
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Ned Smull speaking

Dr. Ned Smull speaking into a microphone at a podium during an awards ceremony for Children's Mercy Hospital. An unidentified white woman is seated at the table on the left with coffee and cake in front of her. Margaret Weaver, board member, is standing behind Dr. Smull waiting to speak.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00438.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Margaret Weaver speaking

Margaret Weaver, board member, speaking at a podium into a microphone at an awards ceremony for Children's Mercy Hospital. An unidentified white woman is seated at the table to the left with coffee and cake in front of her. An unidentified white man and Dr. Ned Smull are seated at the table to the right.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00439.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Ned Smull giving an award

Dr. Ned Smull presenting an award certificate to an unidentified African American woman while shaking her hand during an award ceremony at Children's Mercy Hospital. People seated at tables are seen behind them. Also behind them a white woman can be seen helping another, African American woman, to attach her service pin.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00440.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Group of people at a table

Three white men and two white women, all unidentified, seated side by side at a table during an awards ceremony for Children's Mercy Hospital. All are looking to the right of the photo. Coffee and tea are served in front of them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00441.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Ned Smull and Margaret Weaver giving an award

Dr. Ned Smull, together with board member Margaret Weaver, presenting an award to an unidentified African American woman in glasses while shaking her hand during an awards ceremony for Children's Mercy Hospital.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00442.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Ned Smull and Margaret Weaver giving an award

Dr. Ned Smull holding box of Service Award pins while presenting an award certificate to an unidentified white woman during and awards ceremony for Children's Mercy Hospital. Board member Margaret Weaver is standing next to Dr. Smull. The audience is seen behind them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00443.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Dr. Smull and group of hospital employees on stage

Dr. Ned Smull (far left) standing on stage with fifteen women (five African American, ten white) and one white man, all unidentified and some holding certificates.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00444.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Teen volunteers

Group of unidentified male and female teenaged Red Cross volunteers (one African American teenaged girl, the rest white), some in candy striper uniforms, posing together for a photo on the stairs in the lobby of Children's Mercy Hospital.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00445.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Patient with group of people

Young white girl patient seated in a wheelchair with casts on her legs in front of a table in the Children's Mercy Hospital playground. Three white female nurses and three other people (two white women, one white man) are standing in a group around her. The two standing nurses are Dean Cowles (right) and Carol Belt (left).
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00446.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Three people with a painting

Two white men and one white woman (center), all unidentified, standing outside in front of the sign for Children's Mercy Hospital with a large framed painting their holding in front of them. Part of the building can be seen behind them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00447.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Teaching moment

Unidentified white male physician in a lab coat standing at a blackboard teaching two young white male medical students seated at a table in front of him. There are blinds on the window and an A/C unit in the window.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00448.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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With Miller and Jeanette Nichols on the Plaza

Dr. Richard Dreher, Children's Mercy Hospital physician accepting check from Jeanette Nichols with her husband Miller Nichols behind her with his hand on the nose of the boar statue on the Country Club Plaza which is used to collect coins to be donated to the hospital.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00449.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Little girl with the Easter Bunny

White girl toddler with a short dress holding the hand of a tall white man in an Easter Bunny costume. Both are carrying Easter baskets and there's a trashcan behind them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00450.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Easter Bunny with two children

Unidentified white man in an Easter Bunny costume bending down and holding the hands of a white boy (right) and white girl (left). All are holding Easter baskets and a white female nurse is watching from a window behind them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00451.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Lab technicians at work

An unidentified African American woman in a nurse's uniform (left) and an unidentified white woman in a lab coat (right) working in Dr. Stanley Hellerstein's laboratory at Children's Mercy Hospital. Lab equipment is seen all around.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00452.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281