18th Street and the Paseo in the 1940s
Street's hotel and environs, 18th and Paseo; Kansas City, Missouri, with people walking on the sidewalks and cars parked along the street.
Band playing at the Jockey Jazz Club
A band sits on stage likely playing jazz at the Jockey Club, 10th and Paseo in Kansas City, Missouri. Farthest to the left is Bill Jones playing drums as he wears sunglasses. In front of Bill and to...
Baton twirlers
African American female baton twirlers perform on the court of the gymnasium of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. In one line behind the leader with a whistle...
Boy standing on the sidewalk in a flat cap
An unidentified African American boy stands on the street wearing a flat cap in Kansas City, Missouri.
Boy standing on the sidewalk in a flat cap and holding his thumb in his pocket
An unidentified African American boy stands on the street wearing a flat cap and holding his thumb in his pocket in Kansas City, Missouri.
Business skills students
An African American male instructor leans against a wall on the right back as he speaks with African American co-ed business skills students crowded into a small office doing various clerical duties...
Chorus gathered for a photo in a parlor
A group photograph of a co-ed African American chorus with an unidentified white male choral director standing and crouching in rows in a crowded, small parlor at the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119...
Classroom setting at Western Seminary
An African American male instructor wearing a three-piece suit, stands in the center back teaching clerical skills to a class of African American co-ed students in a classroom at the Western Baptist...
Co-ed group by the porch of Western Seminary
Four rows of an African American co-ed group of the Literary Society just in front of the porch of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The first row crouches...
Co-ed group of Western Seminary students
An unidentified African American co-ed group standing in a "V" formation for a photograph at Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The women wear skirts and blouses...
co-ed group on the grounds and porch of Western Seminary
An unidentified African American co-ed group of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The front row of girls are crouched on the ground. The second row of girls are...
co-ed group on the grounds and porch of Western Seminary
An unidentified African American co-ed group of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The front row of boys are crouched on the ground. The second row of girls are...
Co-ed group on the grounds of Western Seminary
An large unidentified co-ed group of African American men, women, and children and one white man seated in the center on the ground in the photograph on the grounds of Western Baptist Seminary, 2119...
Co-ed group on the steps of Western Seminary
An unidentified African American co-ed group photograph on the steps of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. In the center of the front row is choral director, Mrs...
Co-ed group photo on the grounds and steps of Western Seminary
An unidentified African American co-ed group at the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The first row crouches down while the following rows stand on the steps...
Curtyse Foster at work
Curtyse A. Foster sits at a desk with a large notebook open on a book cradle on the desk. He is writing on a table in an office of other men (white in photo) sitting at similar desks.
Curtyse Foster holding a saxophone
Curtyse A. Foster sits and smiles holding a saxophone.
Curtyse Foster in a publicity photograph
Curtyse A. Foster, standing holding his saxophone in a signed promotional photograph. Handwritten next to his printed signature, "To my family." Printed below the photograph in the margin, "Curtyse...
Discussion
An unidentified African American man, from his right side, stands talking to a white man, from his left side. People behind them are looking over items on a table of candles and books as well as other...
Dolores Hobley and friends at the Negro League Baseball Museum
Dolores Hobley (left) and two other African Americans stand arm in arm in front of the wall in front of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. The man in the middle wears a...
Dr. Perry being honored with a plaque
Dr. John Edward Perry, wearing a long jacket and pinstripe pants stands with his right side to the photographer on the left side of the photograph on one side of a large bouquet. An unidentified well...
Family posing for a photo seated on a couch
An unidentified African American man and woman sit on a sofa smiling at the photographer as the woman holds a baby on her lap. The man has his left arm across the top of the sofa behind the woman's...
Fire engine of Engine House no. 1
Five African American male fire fighters in their uniforms, pose for a photograph with a fire engine. Two fire fighters sit in the driver's and passenger's seats of the fire engine while two stand...
Five men stand on steps
Five very well-dressed unidentified African American men stand on the steps to a school or church. One stands in the front in an overcoat looking up and to the left. The other four stand on the first...
Four men work on a broadcast or recording
Four African American men and one white man sit and stand in a room with microphones at a table, possibly a radio studio, working.