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Exterior view of the entrance to the Elizabeth Liggett Memorial building, St. Louis Children's Hospital.

VC008-i008428
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circa 1950

Part of Saint Louis Children's Hospital Photographs

The Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology is prominently visible in the background.

Surgical procedure in the operating room, St. Louis Children's Hospital, Jefferson and Adams Street.

VC008-i008427
Item
circa 1905

Part of Saint Louis Children's Hospital Photographs

Mothers and infants in the waiting area of the Infant Feeding Clinic, St. Louis Children's Hospital.

VC008-i008426
Item
circa 1900

Part of Saint Louis Children's Hospital Photographs

The photograph was published in the 1910-1911 SLCH Annual Report. Caption from "A Goodly Heritage": "The Hospital served black children in its outpatient department as evidenced by this late 1890s photograph. Statistics below it indicate the high death rate from gastrointestinal diseases - more than 50% of the patients treated died."

Families waiting in the Dispensary, St. Louis Children's Hospital.

VC008-i008425
Item
n.d.

Part of Saint Louis Children's Hospital Photographs

Early era photographs, St. Louis Children's Hospital.

VC008-i008424
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n.d.

Part of Saint Louis Children's Hospital Photographs

Young patient holding up his bandaged finger to show a nurse, St. Louis Children's Hospital.

VC008-i008423
Item
circa 1950

Part of Saint Louis Children's Hospital Photographs

Toddler patient talking on a telephone from his hospital bed, St. Louis Children's Hospital.

VC008-i008422
Item
circa 1950

Part of Saint Louis Children's Hospital Photographs

Nurse Jean O'Rear observing an infant patient in an incubator, premature nursery, St. Louis Children's Hospital.

VC008-i008421
Item
1949

Part of Saint Louis Children's Hospital Photographs

The photograph was published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on November 4, 1949. Typed caption accompanying the photograph reads: "The premature nursery at St. Louis Children's Hospital is the only one of its kind in the state. Sealed from the rest of the hospital by elaborate sterile procedures, the nursery has ten incubators and is supervised by a nursing staff specially trained in the care of prematures."

St. Louis Cardinals player Eddie Dyer giving a baseball to a patient in bed, St. Louis Children's Hospital.

VC008-i008420
Item
circa 1949

Part of Saint Louis Children's Hospital Photographs

Same as VC008330.

Easter bunny visiting a patient, St. Louis Children's Hospital.

VC008-i008419
Item
circa 1950

Part of Saint Louis Children's Hospital Photographs

Doctor examining an infant patient as a nurse observes, St. Louis Children's Hospital.

VC008-i008418
Item
1949

Part of Saint Louis Children's Hospital Photographs

Same as VC008271. Typed caption accompanying the photograph reads: "In the hospital's Out-Patient Department, 26,795 children were examined and received treatment last year. This department will be greatly enlarged and improved when the building program is completed."

Doctor and nurse performing a blood transfusion on a patient, St. Louis Children's Hospital.

VC008-i008417
Item
circa 1950

Part of Saint Louis Children's Hospital Photographs

Typed caption accompanying the photograph reads: "Child medicine requires many special techniques. Here a child with nutritional anemia is receiving a blood transfusion through a vein in her temple. In young children, arm veins are often not suitable for the purpose."

Gene Klingberg giving a lecture to a Washington University School of Nursing class, St. Louis Children's Hospital.

VC008-i008416
Item
1949

Part of Saint Louis Children's Hospital Photographs

Same as VC008040. Typed caption accompanying the photograph reads: "St. Louis Children's is a teaching hospital, affiliated with the Washington University Schools of Medicine and of Nursing. Medical students, medical social workers, dietitians, laboratory technicians, and occupational therapists receive their pediatric internship and training here. Nursing students from St. Luke's and Lutheran hospitals, as well as Washington U., receive their pediatric training at Children's."

Young patient with doctors and a nurse.

VC008-i008415
Item
circa 1950

Part of Saint Louis Children's Hospital Photographs

Typed caption accompanying the photograph reads: "A bean was the cause of it all. This child is recovering after having received successful emergency treatment to recover a bean which he swallowed and which lodged in his windpipe. Each year, skilled staff surgeons remove a wide variety of objects which become lodged in the throat, esophagus, and lungs of youngsters."

Anne M. Perley in a lab coat next to shelves with lab equipment, St. Louis Children's Hospital.

VC008-i008414
Item
circa 1950

Part of Saint Louis Children's Hospital Photographs

Same as VC008015. Typed caption accompanying the photograph reads: "Research into the causes of children's diseases is an important part of the hospital's program. In one research project, atoms are being put to work in the study of diseases of childhood. The Geiger counter shown here is the scientist's principal tool in tracing and measuring radioactive elements, which have been introduced into the body."