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18th Street and the Paseo in the 1940s

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Street's hotel and environs, 18th and Paseo; Kansas City, Missouri, with people walking on the sidewalks and cars parked along the street.

Date Published
1941
1950

Band playing at the Jockey Jazz Club

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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...

Date Published
1951
1960

Baton twirlers

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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...

Date Published
1941
1950

Business skills students

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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...

Date Published
1957
1959

Chorus gathered for a photo in a parlor

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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...

Date Published
1941
1950

Classroom setting at Western Seminary

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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...

Date Published
1949
1951

Co-ed group by the porch of Western Seminary

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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...

Date Published
1941
1959

Co-ed group of Western Seminary students

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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...

Date Published
1950

co-ed group on the grounds and porch of Western Seminary

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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...

Date Published
1941
1950

co-ed group on the grounds and porch of Western Seminary

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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...

Date Published
1941
1950

Co-ed group on the grounds of Western Seminary

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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...

Date Published
1929
1949

Co-ed group on the steps of Western Seminary

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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...

Date Published
1941
1950

Curtyse Foster at work

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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.

Date Published
1971
1980

Curtyse Foster in a publicity photograph

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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...

Date Published
1941
1950

Discussion

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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...

Date Published
1971
1980

Dr. Perry being honored with a plaque

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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...

Date Published
1946

Family posing for a photo seated on a couch

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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...

Date Published
1941
1950

Fire engine of Engine House no. 1

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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...

Date Published
1911
1920

Five men stand on steps

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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...

Date Published
1911
1920