Warren Durrett Collection

Blurry image of a dance hall, with the Warren Durrett Orchestra performing on a platform stage with a curtain behind them, and large glass windows along the wall.

Blurry photograph, presumably of the Warren Durrett Orchestra. There are splotches and splashes of color and light, and to the left what appears to be the Warren Durrett Orchestra performing on a...

Group of unidentified white women at and around a picnic table in a park, in front of tennis courts. There are six women seated at the picnic table (four on the left, two on the right), two women...

Man in a button up sweater over a shirt, standing among a group of children: eight are standing around him, and one is seated to the left. There is another seated back to the right, and other people...

Young boy sitting and smiling towards the camera, with one leg up, and an older gentleman crouched down at his side, hands on the boy's shoe, helping him either put it on or take it off. Another boy...

Nine young boys (one of whom is almost entirely obscured by a bag) and six older men in a sandwich shop. There are chairs, tables, a bulletin board, a clock, a door and a window (behind which is...

Construction site full of grass and dirt with two boys in striped shirts standing apart from each other. There is a construction vehicle behind them, with trees and utility poles in the distance.

Man in a white suit jacket, a patterned shirt and bowtie, next to a man in a dark suit jacket and patterned bowtie with a cigarette in his hand, and a woman in a dress. They are seated at a long...

Man in a white suit jacket, a patterned shirt and bowtie, next to a man in a dark suit jacket and patterned bowtie with a cigarette in his hand, and a woman in a dress. They are seated at a long...

View from what appears to be a window (with a pane jutting through the field of view) overlooking an area of grass and a construction site of dirt. There is a small, leafless tree in the grass, two...

Members of the Warren Durrett Orchestra seated on stage behind music stands, wearing maroon suit jackets with black pants and bowties. There is a trombonist in the center of the image, with a man next...

Warren Durrett Orchestra performing in maroon suit jackets, black pants, and bowties. In the front on the right is a clarinetist, behind him to the left is a drummer, and behind him are a bassist and...

Bob Ousley playing clarinet in a maroon suit jacket, black pants, and a bowtie with the Warren Durrett Orchestra. There is another clarinetist to the left, a saxophonist to the right, three...

Warren Durrett Orchestra performing in maroon suit jackets, black pants, and bowties. In the front on the right is an African American male clarinetist, behind him to the left is a white male drummer...

Warren Durrett Orchestra performing in maroon suit jackets, black pants, and bowties. In the front is a man playing clarinet, obscuring the view of the members behind him. Saxophones are visible, as...

Warren Durrett Orchestra performing in maroon suit jackets, black pants, and bowties. In front of them to the right is a woman singing in a dress and with a flower in her hair. The band is seated in...

Warren Durrett Orchestra performing in maroon suit jackets, black pants, and bowties. In front of them to the right is a woman singing in a dress and with a flower in her hair. The band is seated in...

Warren Durrett standing to the left of his orchestra (one African American man, the rest white men), looking at an unidentified white woman vocalist who is standing at a microphone in front of the...

Warren Durrett in a suit, performing at the piano with an open lid. There is sheet music and a lamp on the piano, as well as a sign that says "Warren Durrett."

Warren Durrett seated at the piano in a blue suit. There is music on top of the piano, as well as a lamp and a sign that reads: "Warren Durrett." There are curtains hanging over windows in the...

Warren Durrett seated at the piano in a blue suit. There is music on top of the piano, as well as a lamp and a sign that reads: "Warren Durrett." There are curtains hanging over windows in the...

Group of eight white boys (one likely in his teens and the rest pre-teens) standing in a sandwich shop, with an unidentified white man in the back left, and Warren Durrett in the back right. There are...

Three young children (two African American boys and one white boy), standing with Warren Durrett and another unidentified white man who is wearing a turtleneck, in a sandwich shop. There is a table in...

Unidentified white woman in sunglasses seated in a chair with her hands folded in her lap in front of a house, at a small table with plates of food, silverware, and drinking glasses.

Unidentified white woman in a magenta sweater vest over a white sweater taking a photo into a mirror with a thin camera, from her waist. She is seen in a reflection facing head-on, and in another...