Betty Crow Collection

Kevin Mahogany and Ned White performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Mahogany is holding a microphone while White plays saxophone. Other people are sitting in...

Kevin Mahogany and Tyrone Clark at The Phoenix on 8th and Central in Kansas City, Missouri. Mahogany is singing into a microphone and closing his eyes. Clark is playing bass and looking to the side...

Kevin Mahogany at an outdoor party at Betty Crow's house. He is standing with two unidentified women at a table with food. They are holding plates and looking down while smiling. A large display of...

Kevin Mahogany singing at an event at the Blue Note Café in Kansas City, Missouri. Mahogany is wearing a blue sweater and singing into a microphone in a stand. He is in front of a wall covered with a...

Kevin Mahogany singing at the Blue Note Café in Kansas City Missouri. Mahogany is standing behind a microphone stand and closing his eyes while singing. Marc Caplan is playing drums directly behind...

Kevin Mahogany performing with unidentified musicians at the Kansas City International Jazz Festival at Starlight Theater in Kansas City, Missouri. Mahogany is standing second from right at the front...

Kevin Mahogany performing with unidentified musicians at the Kansas City International Jazz Festival at Starlight Theater in Kansas City, Missouri. Mahogany is standing second from right at the front...

Kevin Mahogany singing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Other musicians on stage from left to right: Gerald Spaits playing bass, Ned White standing in back, and Mike...

Kevin Mahogany singing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Other musicians on stage from left to right: Gerald Spaits playing bass, Ned White standing in back, and Mike...

Kevin Mahogany singing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Other musicians on stage from left to right: Tommy Ruskin playing drums, Gerald Spaits playing bass behind...

Kim Park standing with an unidentified woman at the Levee Bar & Grill in Kansas City, Missouri. Park is looking to the left and smiling. Other people are standing behind them and talking.

Langston Hughes looking down. He is wearing a dark suit and patterned tie, standing in front of a blank background.

A large crowd at the Liberty Memorial Jazz Festival. People are sitting in lawn chairs and walking around. They are in front of a stage in front of the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri.

A large crowd at the Liberty Memorial Jazz Festival. People are sitting in lawn chairs and walking around. They are in front of a stage in front of the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri.

A large garden in front of a church in Oaxaca, Mexico. The garden has rows of flowers and small bushes. The church is built with yellowish bricks and has two towers next to the main entrance.

A large house in Oaxaca, Mexico. The yellow house has two floors and large windows on both levels. Trees are growing in front of the house in a yard surrounded by a white trellis fence.

A large millipede on the remains of a stone structure on the Virgin Islands. The millipede is on the lower left portion of the rock.

Larry Van Loon and two unidentified musicians at a Halloween event for the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Van Loon is playing a keyboard and singing into a microphone on the...

Laverne Barker and Sonny Kenner at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Barker is holding an electric bass and looking to the side. Kenner is talking into a microphone held...

Laverne Barker and Sonny Kenner at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Barker is playing an electric bass while standing in front of a microphone. Kenner is standing on the...

Sonny Kenner and Laverne Barker performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Kenner is looking down and to the side. Barker is playing an electric bass.

Laverne Barker at the Levee Bar & Grill. Barker is sitting on a stool and looking down while playing an electric bass. Other people are sitting at a table to the side laughing and waving their arms...

Laverne Barker at the Levee Bar & Grill. Barker is sitting on a stool and looking down while playing an electric bass. Other people are sitting at a table to the side talking and drinking. Various...

Laverne Barker performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Barker is playing an electric bass while standing in front of a microphone. Various posters hang on a brick...

Lawrence Keyes at the piano. He is wearing a black tuxedo and looking up while he plays. There is a large signature on the white keys in the photo.