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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O.U. Hoover and Elizabeth Martin walking on the street

O.U. Hoover (left) and Elizabeth Martin (right) walking on a city sidewalk. A young white boy is in the background behind Martin.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01188.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Boy speaking with girl on crutches

White boy seated on an overturned basket and wearing a hat speaking to a white girl wearing a bow in her hair, standing in front of him using crutches. Outside on the hospital grounds. It is unclear which Mercy hospital this is. The hospital moved from Highland Avenue to Independence Avenue in 1917.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01188_b.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Children on the third floor porch

Unidentified white female nurse tending to young patients (white girls and boys) on an outside terrace. There's a girl in bandages in a wheelchair and a young boy in a rolling cart in the foreground, with the remaining patients in beds.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01189.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Tuberculosis patient on frame in bed

Young white girl with tuberculosis with her spine attached to a frame while lying in a hospital bed. A toy car with dog and elephant is on the window sill in the background.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01190.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Children eating together at a long table

Seven children (white boys) eating dinner together at a long table in the hospital dining room. On child has their head bandaged.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01191.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Girl with hand in traction

Young white girl patient sitting on table with her right wrist in a sling hanging from a pulley on the ceiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01192.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Children in a hospital classroom

Young patients (white girls and boys) in a hospital classroom. There's a long table in the foreground with five children seated at it. Other children are seated at individual desks, with an white female instructor standing in the background between two windows. Some of the children are bandaged.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01193.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Children listening to Peter and the Wolf in a classroom

Patients (white girls and boys) in the hospital classroom receiving a music lesson by listening to Prokofiev's symphonic tale "Peter & the Wolf". A diagram of the orchestra's arrangement is on the blackboard on the right wall next to the window. A white female teacher is at the front of the room and one child is raising her hand to answer a question.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01194.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Group of adolescent girls at Easter

Group photo of nine white teenage girls; three sitting in the foreground wearing dresses and holding Easter baskets and a decorated egg (perhaps); six girls sitting on or around the hospital bed in pajama's, one holding a carousel, with two female nurses (one African American, one white) standing at the far left and an unidentified white woman in a hat and dark suit standing at the far right. Likely taken at or around Easter.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01195.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Two boys playing with a doll house

Two white boys, sitting in chairs, pretending to plant items in the yard of a large dollhouse, one boy is holding a tin toy watering can. An empty wheelchair is in the foreground.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01196.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Dr. Sam Roberts

Dr. Sam Roberts, ear, nose and throat specialist, standing next to an examining table, hands at his sides.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01197.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Dr. Nelson with child

Dr. Nelson (likely) standing outside holding a white toddler in his arms. Looking to the left of the photo with a house in the background.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01198.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Dr. Berger outside with his bag

Dr. Berger, pediatrician, standing outside holding his medical bag in his right hand and wearing a hat.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01199.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Unidentified doctor in a hat

Unidentified white male staff doctor standing outside and wearing a hat. Facing the camera with arms at his sides.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01200.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Unidentified doctor holding his hat

Unidentified white male staff doctor in a white suit and shoes standing outside and holding his hat in his hands. Looking to the left of the photo.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01201.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281