Bettye Miller and Bartie
Bettye Miller posing for a photo with Bartie outside Ma Baker's Stone Motel. Miller is wearing shorts and a sleeveless blouse. Bartie is wearing a white long sleeved shirt and dark pants.
Bettye Miller and Milt Abel
Bettye Miller playing piano with Milt Abel playing double bass behind her. Both are looking at the camera.
Bettye Miller and Milt Abel on stage
Milt Abel, bass, with Bettye Miller, vibraphone, performing on stage. Miller is standing and seen from the side and below the stage level.
Bettye Miller and Milt Abel on stage
View from below the stage of Bettye Miller, piano, and Milt Abel, bass, performing. Miller has her back to the camera. A drum set and vibraphone can also be seen.
Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing
Bettye Miller, piano, and Milt Abel, bass, performing together. There is a cymbal from a drum set in the foreground of the photo.
Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing
Bettye Miller on piano, Milt Abel on bass performing in a living room.
Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together
Bettye Miller and Milt Able performing together in what looks like a private home as living room curtains can be seen behind Abel. Both looking at the camera and smiling.
Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together
Bettye Miller and Milt Able performing together in what looks like a private home as living room curtains can be seen behind Abel. Taken at an angle.
Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together
Bettye Miller, piano, and Milt Abel, double bass, performing together. Abel is positioned behind Miller who is looking to the right of the photo. Very dark lighting.
Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together
Bettye Miller, piano, with Milt Abel, bass, performing on stage together. Miller has a microphone set up near her face and she's looking into the camera. There is a tambourine at Abel's feet.
Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together
Bettye Miller and Milt Able performing together in what looks like a private home as living room curtains can be seen behind Abel. Photo taken from near keyboard level.
Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together
Bettye Miller and Milt Able performing together in what looks like a private home as living room curtains can be seen behind Abel.
Bettye Miller greeting fans
Bettye Miller greeting fans. She's speaking with a white man and an African American man holding a hat and possibly a performance program looks on.
Bettye Miller playing piano
Bettye Miller playing piano and turning around to look over at the camera. An unidentified bassist (likely Milt Abel) is partially seen next to her. Three audience members (two white women and a white...
Bettye Miller playing xylophone
Bettye Miller playing a xylophone set up next to her piano. Milt Abel is playing double bass at the right.
Bettye Miller with Milt Abel
Milt Abel, double bass, and Bettye Miller, piano, playing in front of an audience (primarily white men seen). The photo is taken from behind and to the side of Miller and Abel. Abel is wearing a...
Bettye Miller with two men
Bettye Miller sitting between two unidentified men on a curved bench. Plants and flowers are behind them. All looking at the camera.
Bettye Miller, Milt Abel and two other men
Bettye Abel standing with Milt Abel (left) and an unidentified African American man (right) and an unidentified white man seated in front of them. All looking at the camera and laughing.
Bettye Miller, Milt Abel and two others
An unidentified white man, Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and an unidentified African American woman standing in a group together with a big band playing behind them. The unidentified man's eyes are closed...
Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and a third man
Bettye Miller seated with Milt Abel at a table. An unidentified man is crouched down between them and looking directly at the camera. Other people can be partially seen moving around behind them.
Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and Rod Padilla
Bettye Miller, piano, Milt Abel, double bass, and Rod Padilla, drums, performing in the lounge of the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Two rows of Promotional photos are on the...
Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and Terry Basso
Bettye Miller in her wedding dress with the groom Milt Abel and drummer Terry Basso on either side of her. All are holding small glasses for a toast. Miller and Basso are looking toward the camera...
Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, Lois Robers, and George Nader
Bettye Miller, seated at a piano with Milt Abel holding his double bass. George Nader is leaning on the piano with Lois Roberts standing next to him. Miller and Abel are looking at the camera, Roberts...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking
Photo of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to a large crowd with a drawing of mountains and the words "I've Been to the Mountain Top" in the wide border under the photograph. The speech was given...
Milt Abel and Bill Drybread with their Great Danes
Milt Abel with his dog, Yogi, in a living room with Bill Drybread and his dog. Both dogs are Great Danes. A young boy is crouched down beside Drybread's dog and the arm of another child is just seen...