Betty Crow Collection

Al "Delightful De" Bartee and Elsa Hart at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Bartee is wearing a brown jacket and vest. Hart is wearing a purple jacket. Both are looking...

Al "Delightful De" Bartee and Elsa Hart at the Allis Plaza Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. Bartee is wearing a black suit and vest. Hart is wearing a purple jacket. Both are looking forward and...

Audience at a show at the Allis Plaza Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. Al "Delightful De" Bartee, an unidentified woman, Nelson Farney, Mary Ellen Farney, and Elsa Vest are sitting left to right around...

Dorothy Donegan and Elsa Hart at the Allis Plaza Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. Hart is standing next to Donegan, looking forward and smiling.

Dorothy Donegan signing an autograph for an unidentified woman at the Allis Plaza Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. Elsa Hart and Al "Delightful De" Bartee are standing nearby. Donegan is wearing a...

Elsa Hart talking with an unidentified man at the Allis Plaza Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. They are in the audience during a show.

Elsa Hart sitting with an unidentified man, Gwen Green, and Bob Green (left to right) at the Allis Plaza Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. They are looking at musicians performing on stage.

Elsa Hart, Betty Crow, Milt Abel II, Milt Abel, and Chloe Abel sitting left to right during a Mutual Musicians House Band rehearsal in Kansas City, Missouri. Everyone is looking up and smiling. They...

Jazz musicians and family at a Mutual Musicians House Band rehearsal in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Chloe Abel sitting on the ground in a pink sweater, Milt Abel standing and wearing a...

Jazz musicians at a Mutual Musicians House Band rehearsal in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Milt Abel standing and wearing a tan jacket, Al "Delightful De" Bartee sitting in front and...

Jazz musicians performing at an event at the Radisson Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Dwight Foster looking to the side while holding a saxophone, Al Bartee playing drums, an...

Musicians and friends posing for a photo at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Jay McShann, Al Bartee, and Elsa Hart. Everyone is looking forward and smiling...

Musicians and friends posing for a photo at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Ben Kynard, Elsa Hart, Al Bartee, Ronnie McFadden, Betty Crow, Jay McShann...

Nelson Farney, Mary Ellen Farney, and Elsa Hart at the Allis Plaza Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. They are sitting in the audience during a show. All three are looking forward and smiling. Hart is...

Three unidentified people standing in line for autographs from Dorothy Donegan at the Allis Plaza Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. Elsa Hart is standing in the back by a wall, wearing a purple jacket...

An unidentified dancer, Al "Delightful De" Bartee, and Elsa Hart standing left to right behind a drum set. They are looking forward and smiling. Hart is holding drum sticks in her hands.