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Reason to smile, Henry Orbe tries on a baseball cap with the help of nurse Wendy Acott at the Hospital for Sick Children yesterday. His leg is in trac(...)
Reason to smile, Henry Orbe tries on a baseball cap with the help of nurse Wendy Acott at the Hospital for Sick Children yesterday. His leg is in trac(...)

Reason to smile, Henry Orbe tries on a baseball cap with the help of nurse Wendy Acott at the Hospital for Sick Children yesterday. His leg is in trac(...)

Date4/5/1989
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Original Toronto Star caption: Reason to smile, Henry Orbe tries on a baseball cap with the help of nurse Wendy Acott at the Hospital for Sick Children yesterday. His leg is in traction after an operation and he has been spared amputation.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0071797F
Nurses like their bright new caps, Nurse Glenice Irvine adds a spot of color to the operating room at the Hospital for Sick Children with her polka do(...)
Nurses like their bright new caps, Nurse Glenice Irvine adds a spot of color to the operating room at the Hospital for Sick Children with her polka do(...)
9/30/1974
Clowning sorrow. Billy the clown tries his best but just can't pull a smile from little Nikki Bechtel, 2, of Brantford during a visit to the Hospital (...)
Clowning sorrow. Billy the clown tries his best but just can't pull a smile from little Nikki Bechtel, 2, of Brantford during a visit to the Hospital (...)
2/3/1993
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Blacksmith Albert Foster (right) discusses a leg brace being made in the basement machine shop at the Hospital for Sick Children, with Boris Mozetich Last year, he and his 12 workmen produced 7,000 special items orthopedic shoes, iron lugns, surgical tool
7/21/1970
He thinks kids are wonderful, and that was one reason 82-year-old pensioner William Brown walked into the Hospital for Sick Children yesterday and gave away $5,500 in $10 and $50 bills to buy special treats for patients.
He thinks kids are wonderful, and that was one reason 82-year-old pensioner William Brown walked into the Hospital for Sick Children yesterday and gave away $5,500 in $10 and $50 bills to buy special treats for patients.
3/13/1970
Star time at Sick Kids. Singer Marie Osmond shakes hands with Angela Quinn, 2, at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children yesterday as delighted nurses l(...)
Star time at Sick Kids. Singer Marie Osmond shakes hands with Angela Quinn, 2, at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children yesterday as delighted nurses l(...)
7/20/1983
On the stand: Nurse Mary Costello testifies at Grange commission yesterday that some nurses at Hospital for Sick Children were afraid to join one team because it had so much bad luck
On the stand: Nurse Mary Costello testifies at Grange commission yesterday that some nurses at Hospital for Sick Children were afraid to join one team because it had so much bad luck
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At mount Sinai hospital -- two sets of triplets, Star photographer Boris Spremo, wearing a gauze face mask, tries to sort out which nurse is holding w(...)
At mount Sinai hospital -- two sets of triplets, Star photographer Boris Spremo, wearing a gauze face mask, tries to sort out which nurse is holding w(...)
7/31/1968
Henry Orbe
Henry Orbe
3/25/1989
Bitter parents: Wendy Knighton and Adrian Cook say their 8-month-old son, Andrew, would be alive today if doctors in the emergency department at the Hospital For Sick Children had ordered X-rays
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3/12/1980
As the drum corps marches past during yesterday's parade of the International Order of the Alhambra, an organization to assist retarded children, Trac(...)
As the drum corps marches past during yesterday's parade of the International Order of the Alhambra, an organization to assist retarded children, Trac(...)
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Testimony continues, Nurse Susan Nelles is comforted by her lawyer, John Sopinka, during yesterday's hearings into baby deaths at the Hospital for Sick Children
Testimony continues, Nurse Susan Nelles is comforted by her lawyer, John Sopinka, during yesterday's hearings into baby deaths at the Hospital for Sick Children
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On the stand, Hospital for Sick Children nurse Susan Nelles talks to spectator at Grange commission inquiry yesterday before taking the stand. At left(...)
On the stand, Hospital for Sick Children nurse Susan Nelles talks to spectator at Grange commission inquiry yesterday before taking the stand. At left(...)
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