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Photo album page the trip from Shanghai to Honolulu

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A person diving from the side of a ship beside a lifeboat captioned "Joe E. Brown taking picture"; People on a pier waving captioned "Leaving Honolulu"; an Asian man standing, with a walking stick and basket, carrying a person on his back while a rickshaw and driver pass behind captioned "Shanghai Beggars"; a photo of the "Harlem Gentlemen" with a small boy; a photo of a pier with a tugboat going by captioned "Aloha"; a photo of a ship deck shuffleboard court with Joe E Brown in a suit in the foreground, Buck and Derb in swimsuits over Joe's right shoulder and other members of the Harlem Gentlemen over Joe's right shoulder.
Date Published
1937
Subjects
African American jazz musicians
Jazz musicians
Motion picture actors and actresses
Celebrities
Travelers
Beggars
Time Periods
1931-1940
Subjects, Geographic
Honolulu (Hawaii)
Shanghai (China)
Notes

No date; likely 1937

Panel of 7 photos mounted on a photo album page with handwritten captions: Top left: Joe E. Brown Taking Picture; top right: Leaving Honolulu; Bottom left: Shanghai Beggars; Top middle: Harlem gentlemen; Bottom middle: "Aloha"; Bottom right: Movie Kings (All).

Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

Extent Of Original
6 photographs : black and white print ; 11 x 7 cm on card mount 27 x 34 cm
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection
Source File
umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1515.tif
Genres
Gelatin silver prints
Black & white photographs
Group portraits
Types
photographs
Physical Location
LaBudde Special Collections
Rights
All collection images may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent use and/or distribution in print or electronically. Please contact LaBudde Special Collections for more information.

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