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 child's mouth

Young white boy patient being examined by nurse Christy Rochester holding a light source over the patient's face and looking into his mouth in the Hematology/Oncology unit.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00995.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Nurse speaking to a mother holding her boy

Young white boy being held by his mother who is talking to nurse Christy Rochester who is holding a piece of paper and a pen in the Hematology/Oncology unit.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00996.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Injecting chemotherapy drugs

White patient with only partial body showing receiving chemotherapy drugs being injected into an IV line in the Oncology Unit. Hands of nurses (white women) also seen.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00997.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Dr. Arnold Freeman with smiling patient

Dr. Arnold Freeman, Oncology unit, posing for a photo with a smiling white girl patient. They both have an arm around each other.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00998.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Dr. Arnold Freeman examining a patient

Dr. Arnold Freeman wearing a stethoscope and examining a young white girl patient in the Oncology Unit. He is touching her face as part of the exam.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00999.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Dr. Basharat Jazbi examining a patient

Physician (likely Dr. Basharat Jazbi) examining a white girl patient in the Oncology unit. He has one hand on her shoulder and is examining her hand with the other.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01000.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Group photo of doctors and residents

Large group of doctors and residents, men and women (Largely white but with some South East Asian and Asian women and men) standing on the exterior front steps of Children's Mercy Hospital for a group photo. None identified.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01001.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Sharon Ellis with young girl

Sharon Ellis seated next to and speaking with a young white girl patient sitting in a chair with a doll in her lap.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01002.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Sharon Ellis with girl in a crib

Sharon Ellis standing next to hospital crib with a African American girl patient lying down. Ellis is holding her hand and the girl is looking over at the camera and her leg seems to be bandaged and in traction.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01003.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Doctor in the neonatal care unit

Robert T. Hall, M.D. (Section Chair of Neonatology) checking on a white infant in an incubator in the neonatal care unit. Monitors and various other instruments are all around.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01004.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Dr. Smull with man, boy, and squashes

Dr. Smull (right) standing with an unidentified older white man (left) and a young white boy in overalls standing on a table with two huge pumpkin-like squashes or gourds. A picture of a Victrola is on the wall behind the boy.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01005.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Boy with giant squash

Young white boy in overalls standing in front of a picture of a Gramophone and behind two large squashes or gourds on a table.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01006.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Girl with doll in bed

Young African American girl lying in a hospital bed with her arm around her doll.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01007.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Carol Belt checking on a patient in his bed

Carol Belt, nurse, checking on a white boy patient in a hospital bed with his left arm raised with a metal weighted splint. Get-well cards are hung on his bed railing in the background.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01008.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Nurse making notes in a chart

Unidentified white female nurse checking on a white infant lying on its stomach in a crib and making notes to the patient's chart in the neonatal unit. She's in scrubs with a stethoscope around her neck.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01009.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281