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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Examining a boy's ear

Unidentified white male doctor examining a white older boy patient's damaged ear with an otoscope.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00468.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Nurse with newborn boy

Nurse Carol Graves holding a newborn infant white boy in her arms. Groves is seated and wearing a cardigan.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00469.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Nurse holding two infants

Nurse Carol Graves standing and holding a newborn infant (white boy and white girl) in each arm. She's looking to the left of the photo.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00470.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Young girl with teddy bear

Young white girl holding a large teddy bear in her arms. Facing the left of the photo.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00471.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Reg Carolan with young girl

Reg Carolan of the Kansas City Chiefs visiting with a young white girl in a wheelchair and leg braces. Both are laughing and the girl has something in her hands.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00472.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Combing a patient's hair

Unidentified white female nurse combing a white toddler boy's hair as he sits in his hospital crib.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00473.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Nurse and smiling toddler

Unidentified white female nurse holding an African American toddler girl wearing a dress with a lace-edged apron and white collar. The girl is smiling widely at the camera.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00474.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Two women with child in a wheelchair

Two unidentified white women with a young white girl in a wheelchair beside a window. One woman is leaning on the wheelchair from behind and the other woman is squatting down next to the wheelchair pointing out something to the girl.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00475.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Boy in an oxygen tent

Nurse Lila Lee Langerman standing to the left of a five year old white boy patient in an oxygen tank while holding a Huckleberry Hound stuffed animal. An unidentified white man is standing behind the tent and nurse Nancy Reimal-Mills is standing to the right.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00476.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Dr. Marvin Bordy with young girl

Dr. Marvin Bordy attending a white girl toddler sitting on an exam table crying dressed in only a diaper, shoes, and socks. Bordy is wearing a stripped jacket.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00477.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Talking with puppets

Three year old white girl at Children's Mercy Hospital shakes hand with a puppet manipulated by Jay Ross, during a variety show in the children's ward. Looking on are Stanley Tyron, manager of a lumber company, and a fourteen year old white girl patient in a wheelchair. The show was sponsored by the Hoo Hoo Club, a lumbermen's organization.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00478.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Nurse laughing with two patients

Nurse Alice McDonald talking to and laughing with a white sister and brother in wheelchairs.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00479.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Demonstrating a microscope to a young girl

Shloe Barrick, Research Assistant, in Virology Laboratory with a young white girl looking through a microscope. Barrick is adjusting the lenses for the girl. Test tubes and other equipment can be seen.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00480.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Signing his cast

Young white boy in a hospital bed being visited by three young men (two white, one Asian likely), one wearing a white hat and carrying a guitar. One of the men is signing the boy's cast around his torso. There's a box labeled "Ant Farm" in the bed next to the boy.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00481.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Attendees at a service awards dinner

Attendees (all white in the photo) of the Distinguished Service Awards dinner held at the Plaza III Restaurant celebrating Twenty Five Years of Volunteer Medical Service. Seated at the nearest table are, clockwise: Mrs. Caldwell Summers (back to Camera); Dr. Caldwell Summers; Mrs. John Clayton; Dr. John Clayton; Mrs. Alvin Baer; Dr. Alvin Baer; Mrs. Eugene Parson; Dr. Eugene Parsons.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00572.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281