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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Changing an infant's diaper

White mother changing her infant's diaper on a bed with help from a white female caregiver standing next to her. A crib is behind them. In the Parent Care Unit of Children's Mercy Hospital.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00844.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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View of a room in the Parent Care Unit

View of a room in the Parent Care Unit of the Children's Mercy Hospital. A crib, part of a bed, a table with an ashtray and chairs, and a window with plaid curtains are shown. The window looks out on a brick wall.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00845.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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View of a room in the Parent Care Unit

View of a room in the Parent Care Unit of the Children's Mercy Hospital. A crib, part of a bed, a table, chairs, and a window with plaid curtains are shown. The window looks out on a brick wall.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00846.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Clown visiting a patient

Clown (white male) in a plaid coat, hat, and red hair visiting a white girl in traction. The clown is holding a small phonograph player. The girl is smiling or laughing while lying in her hospital bed with one leg in a cast in traction.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00847.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Moving an infant in an incubator to the new hospital building

Infant in an incubator being checked on by a white female nurse as it's moved from the old to the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. Lines of unidentified employees (white men, African American and white women) are along the lobby wall. An unidentified white man is pushing the incubator and another white man is carrying an oxygen tank for the incubator. Another white female nurse holding a cardboard box is accompanying the group.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00848.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Reading in a bean bag

Two young boys seated together in a bean bag, each with a book. The white boy on the right is looking up from his book and the African American boy on the right is looking down at his, reading.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00849.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Snack time for a group of patients

Unidentified white woman with her back to the camera is helping a group of three boys (One white, one African American, one Latino (possibly)) eat a snack of graham crackers around a table. She has one hand resting on the lower back of the African American boy standing with a lower body cast. The Latino boy is wearing a cowboy hat.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00850.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Helping a hearing impaired girl

White woman seated with young white girl wearing a sound device with earphones. The woman seems to be making a sign in American Sign Language and the girl appears to be imitating her. Photo taken from a view of them in a mirror.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00851.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Nurse with infant in the intensive care unit

Unidentified white female nurse with a stethoscope around her neck tending to an African American toddler in a hospital bed in the Intensive Care Unit at Children's Mercy Hospital. A string of large plastic beads is strung over the bed.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00852.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Boy with leg braces and crutches outside a school

Young white boy with leg braces and crutches standing next to a car with a smashed bumper in front of the Crippled Children's Nursery School and the Offices of the Jackson County Society for Crippled Children and Adults.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00853.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Nurse checking on a patient in the Neonatal Unit

Unidentified white female nurse checking on a white infant in an incubator in the Neonatal Care Unit of Children's Mercy Hospital.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00854.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Desert table at a Christmas party

Four women (two African American and two white) and one African American man holding baked goods standing around a table filled with pastries and desserts for a Christmas party at Children's Mercy Hospital. The nurse in the middle is Carol Belt.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00855.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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View of the hospital building

Exterior View of Children's Mercy Hospital with a flag pole flying the United States Flag above Children's Mercy's own flag.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00856.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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View of the hospital building

Exterior View of Children's Mercy Hospital from the parking lot. Hospital directional signage on median strip in middle of photo.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00857.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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George Brett and Dr. Richard Dreher

Dr. Richard Dreher (left) with his hand on a $500.00 check given by George Brett of the Kansas City Royals, right. Both facing the camera and smiling. Check is dated June 1, 1979.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-00858.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281