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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Dr. Ned Smull

Dr. Ned Smull speaking into a microphone in front of Steve's Shoe Store on the Country Club Plaza as part of the third dedication of the bronze boar fountain for Children's Mercy Hospital. A banner for the event is partial seen hanging from the balcony above the shoe store.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00604.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Fountain dedication

Two unidentified men (white and African American) exchanging a piece of paper in front of microphone at the third dedication of the bronze boar fountain for Children's Mercy Hospital on the Country Club Plaza. Miller Nichols is seen on the left behind the two men and a Children's Mercy Hospital emergency vehicle is also partially in view.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00605.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Speaker at fountain dedication

Unidentified white male speaker in front of a microphone at the third dedication of the bronze boar fountain for Children's Mercy Hospital on the Country Club Plaza. John Stockwell is seen in the audience behind him (3rd from left) along with several white female nurses and children (African American and white), two in wheelchairs.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00606.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Miller Nichols in front of the bronze boar fountain

Miller Nichols standing in front of a microphone in facing the bronze boar fountain on the Country Club Plaza. Photo taken from beside the fountain and other buildings and cars in the street can be seen along with pedestrians (white women).
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00607.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Dedication of the bronze boar fountain

Officials and children (all white) gathered around the bronze boar fountain on the Country Club Plaza during its third dedication for Children's Mercy Hospital, including Miller Nichols (2nd from left), Margaret Weaver (3rd from left) and Ned Smull (right). Four small children are also standing around the fountain and a man's arm can be seen at the left placing a coin into the fountain. Buildings can be seen behind everyone.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00608.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Nurses and children in front of the bronze boar fountain

Six white female nurses with five children (three white girls, one white boy, one African American boy) gathered in front of the bronze boar statue on the Country Club Plaza. One nurse is holding a girl in her arms and another is holding a boy as he stretches his hand into the fountain's water. Pedestrians can be seen behind them. Taken during the fountains third dedication to Children's Mercy Hospital.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00609.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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At the Children's Mercy Hospital's information booth

Five older white women standing in front of the Children's Mercy Hospital's information booth during the third dedication of the bronze boar fountain on the Country Club Plaza. Two of the women are reading pamphlets from the booth.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00610.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Miller Nichols with a plaque on the Plaza

From left, Mary Panzero (President of the Century Club), young white boy patient with leg braces, Laurie Seidlitz, Junior Volunteer, another young white boy patient, an unidentified white man and Miller Nichols holding out a dedicatory plaque to Panzero. Behind them is a fountain, tree and building on the Country Club Plaza.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00611.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Miss U.S.A visits a patient

Miss U.S.A., Bobbi Johnson, delivering Kansas City Athletics megaphones to patients at Children's Mercy Hospital. She's stopped at the bed of a white teenage boy who is smiling up at her. She's wearing her crown and sash.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00612.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Miss U.S.A visits a patient

Miss U.S.A., Bobbi Johnson, delivering Kansas City Athletics megaphones to a young white boy in sitting up in a hospital bed with leg and arm injuries. Both looking over at the camera and smiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00613.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Miss U.S.A visits a patient

Miss U.S.A., Bobbi Johnson, delivering Kansas City Athletics megaphoned to a young white girl patient lying in a hospital bed.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00614.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Eating a boxed lunch outside

A group of attendees (three white men, two white women) of the 7th Annual Outstate Meeting eating a boxed lunch at a table outside. Seated from left: J. Alex Cubbin, Judge Byron Fry, John Mosher, Mrs. Harry Harkness, Mrs. William Tucker.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00615.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Eating a boxed lunch outside

A group of unidentified attendees (three white women, one white man) of the 7th Annual Outstate Meeting eating a boxed lunch at a table outside.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00616.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Eating a boxed lunch outside

A group of unidentified attendees (four white women, one African American man) of the 7th Annual Outstate Meeting eating a boxed lunch at a table outside. Other tables of people (white men) can be seen behind them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00617.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Participants during an awards tea

Hospital employees (white men, African American and white women) attending a Service Awards Tea seated at various tables. An unidentified man is speaking, standing, at the left and seated next to the speaker are Margaret Weaver, John Stockwell, and Ethel Vaughn.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00527.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281