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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Unidentified man examining another man's leg

Unidentified older white man dressed in old fashioned clothing bending over to examine the lower leg of another, younger, unidentified white man seated on a stool in a room of the Children's Mercy Hospital. Medical equipment can be seen in the background.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01070.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Unidentified man visiting a child at his hospital bed

Unidentified white man in old fashioned clothing looking up at the camera dramatically from beside the hospital bed of an African American boy patient he's visiting. The boy has one leg in traction and in a cast and is lying flat on his back.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01071.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Unidentified man visiting the hospital's classroom

Unidentified white man in old fashioned clothing visiting the hospital's classroom full of students (African American and white boys and girls). The man is seated in front of the students and looking over dramatically at the camera. The kids are also looking at the camera save for the girl in the back row, left, who is looking at the man.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01072.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Unidentified man taking the pulse of another man

Unidentified white man (left) in old fashioned clothing manually taking the pulse of another, younger, unidentified white man (right) in a short-sleeved shirt at Children's Mercy Hospital.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01073.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Unidentified man writing on a blackboard

Unidentified white man in old fashioned clothing writing on a chalkboard in a classroom at Children's Mercy Hospital.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01074.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Demonstrating a medical monitor

Unidentified white man in short-sleeves demonstrating the working of an unidentified medical monitor to an unidentified white man wearing old fashioned clothing at Children's Mercy Hospital.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01075.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Unknown man examining a woman's foot

Unidentified white man in old fashioned clothing (left) bent over the outstretched leg of an unidentified African American woman (nurse or doctor) and examining her foot. Medical equipment is all around.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01076.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Nurse with children

Nurse Deskins crouching down with arms around two unidentified white boys in an outside courtyard.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01077.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Nurse with children

Nurse Deskins crouching down with arms around two unidentified white boys in an outside courtyard. One child's face is turned away from the camera.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01078.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Nurse Anna Fenner standing by some bushes

Nurse Anna Fenner standing beside some bushes, posing for a photo.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01079.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Woman standing by some bushes

Unidentified white woman posing for a photo beside a bush next to the hospital building.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01080.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Nurse standing by a stone wall

Unidentified white female nurse standing next to a stone wall on the hospital grounds.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01081.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Nurse Anna Fenner with intern

Nurse Anna Fenner (left) with an unidentified female intern (right). They're standing close together with an arm around each other.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01082.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Helen Christensen and Martha Osborne

Nurses Helen Christensen and Martha Osborne posing together for a photo in front of a set of doors to the hospital.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01083.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281
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Unidentified woman in the Alps

Unidentified white woman in Austria standing on one side of a river over looking a town on the other side with the Tyrolean Alps in the background.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_childrens-mercy_photo-01084.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0281