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"Colorado" Pete promotional photo

Image

Promotional photo of "Colorado" Pete wearing satin long-sleeve shirt with dark scarf and white cowboy hat. "To Irene one of the "Crouse Twins",...

Date Published
1930
1942
Member of
Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection

"Tex" Owens promotional photo

Image

Promotional photo of "Tex" Owens sitting on stool with Martin guitar in front of white peg-board wall behind "KMBC" microphone. Owens is wearing...

Date Published
1930
1942
Member of
Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection

"The Scout" statue at Penn Valley Park

Image

Distant view of "The Scout" statue surrounded by fencing at Penn Valley Park, Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
U.S. Epperson Collection

Advertisement for Chic's 14 Pla-Mors

Image

Photographic print of shamrock-shaped advertisement for "Chic's 14 Pla-Mors" (also known as Chic Scoggin and his Pla-Mor Orchestra) with framed...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection

Agnes Messersmith with her son

Image

Agnes Messersmith holding her son while outside near some trees. She's wearing a heavy coat.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Alice Cecilia Willett

Image

A studio portrait of Alice Cecilia Willett sitting sideways with her ankles crossed smiling over her left shoulder at the photographer. A tropical...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

All bundled up in the snow

Image

An unidentified African American woman, from her left side, is all bundled up in a winter hat with the brim turned up all the way round and a full...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

An unidentified woman and an unidentified man at "The Scout" statue at Penn Valley Park

Image

"The Scout" statue surrounded by fencing; an unidentified woman and an unidentified man stand in foreground at Penn Valley Park, Kansas City, Missouri...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
U.S. Epperson Collection

Anna Anderson seated at a desk

Image

Anna Anderson, Director of Children's Mercy Hospital Clinic, seated at a desk behind a partition and near rows of file cabinets.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Baby seated in a chair

Image

A studio portrait of an unidentified African American toddler sitting in a chair in a light-colored dress with dark shoes that tie.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Bennie and Lizzie in the garden at Marland Estate

Image

Bennie sits on a tacked quarter horse while Lizzie stands to their left with a dog in front of her outside the Marland Estate in the garden or...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra

Image

Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra posing on stage for a group photo. Fourteen musicians are wearing light colored suits and a dark handkerchief...

Date Published
1930
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Boy pulling on weight equipment

Image

Young white boy patient sitting on a table holding pulley with no weights attached in the physiotherapy room and is distracted by the photographer.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Brown Chapel A.M.E.

Image

Exterior shot of the Brown Chapel A.M.E. in Parsons, Kansas.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Brown Chapel Choir

Image

Members of the Brown Chapel Choir posed in choir robes (includes Aritha Anne Dorsey-Clayton and Simeon O. Clayton)

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton in Boyle Heights, California

Image

Buck Clayton standing with his hands in his pockets in front of a building in Boyle Heights, California.

Date Published
1930
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton with friends

Image

Buck Clayton standing with Jean Clayton, Charles McKnight, Margery Clayton, Sarah Bright and Shifford Garner.

Date Published
1930
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Bundled up woman standing in the snow in the yard in front of a house

Image

An unidentified African American woman bundled up in a plush winter coat with a fur collar, boots, and a hat stands without smiling in the snow in the...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

California bound

Image

Buck Clayton with Jack Medlock laughing through a barn window, Buck with a hat in his hand.

Date Published
1930
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Catalogue photo of a Page organ

Image

Catalogue photo of a Page organ; caption on back reads: 3-Manual console finished in Stipple Gold and Mahogany for Colonial Theatre, Philadelphia. /...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection

Charles Curtis Vice President of the United States

Image

Charles Curtis, Vice President of the United States, in suit and tie with rose in lapel.

Date Published
1930
Member of
Baron Missakian Collection

Charlie Parker and his half-brother John (Ikey) sitting in a field

Image

Charlie Parker as a toddler with his half-brother John, known as Ikey, sitting side by side in a grassy field; Ikey is wearing a tie; Parker is...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Chevrolet Coupe

Image

An unidentified African American woman behind the wheel of a 1920s Chevrolet Coupe on brick pavement. Trees are behind the car.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Chic Scoggin and his Pla-Mor Orchestra performing

Image

Chic Scoggin and his Pla-Mor Orchestra performing on stage.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection

Chic Scoggin and ten unidentified members of his band

Image

Chic Scoggin (middle, right, leaning over phonograph) and ten unidentified members of his band; listening to a record in an unidentified room.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection

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  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (121)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (84)
  • Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection (53)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (28)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (24)
  • Baron Missakian Collection (22)
  • U.S. Epperson Collection (15)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (7)
  • Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection (4)
  • Mclean Family Collection (4)
  • Jay McShann Collection (2)
  • Brian Thurn Collection (1)
  • Helen Xarhis-DePasco Collection (1)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (1)
  • Martha Jane Starr Collection (1)
  • Postcard - Ben-Ton Orchestra (1)
  • Postcard - El Torreon Orchestra (1)
  • Postcard - The Coon Sanders Band (1)

Types

  • photographs (364)

Genres

  • Gelatin silver prints (369)
  • Snapshots (225)
  • Portrait photographs (212)
  • Group portraits (164)
  • Publicity photographs (53)
  • Architectural photographs (17)
  • Cityscape photographs (8)
  • Postcards (6)
  • Mixed media (3)
  • Reproductions (2)
  • Card photographs (1)
  • Cityscapes (1)
  • Photographic postcards (1)
  • (-) Black & white photographs (371)

Time Periods

  • 1921-1930 (343)
  • 1911-1920 (13)
  • 1931-1940 (10)
  • 1941-1950 (2)
  • 1901-1910 (1)

Subjects

  • Women, White (100)
  • African American women (73)
  • Nurses (66)
  • Children, White (56)
  • Children--Hospital care (53)
  • Hospital patients (52)
  • African American men (49)
  • Hospital buildings (31)
  • Girls (30)
  • Men, White (29)
  • Jazz musicians (23)
  • Boys (22)
  • Buildings (20)
  • African American children (18)
  • Hats (16)
  • Big bands (15)
  • Physicians (15)
  • Automobiles (14)
  • Families (14)
  • Toddlers (14)
  • Dogs (11)
  • Dwellings (11)
  • Hospital administrators (11)
  • Snow (11)
  • Stairs (10)
  • Crutches (9)
  • Infants (9)
  • Musicians (9)
  • African American jazz musicians (8)
  • Boards of directors (8)
  • Shrubs (8)
  • Tricycles (8)
  • Hospital beds (7)
  • Physical therapy--Equipment and supplies (7)
  • Physical therapy for children (7)
  • Trees (7)
  • Architecture, Domestic (6)
  • Bathing suits (6)
  • Church buildings (6)
  • Costume (6)
  • Saxophonists (6)
  • Streets (6)
  • Surgical nursing (6)
  • Trumpet players (6)
  • Bentwood furniture (5)
  • Jewelry (5)
  • Toys (5)
  • Violinists (5)
  • Bandages and bandaging (4)
  • Benches (4)
  • Desks (4)
  • Dolls (4)
  • Doors (4)
  • Elephants in art (4)
  • Gardens (4)
  • Hospitals--Employees (4)
  • Hydrotherapy for children (4)
  • Organ (Musical instrument) (4)
  • Signs and signboards (4)
  • Statues (4)
  • Student nurses (4)
  • Trombonists (4)
  • Automobile dealers (3)
  • Bodies of water (3)
  • Children's furniture (3)
  • Clergy (3)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (3)
  • Dinners and dining (3)
  • Horses (3)
  • Mothers (3)
  • Otolaryngologists (3)
  • Parks (3)
  • Pets (3)
  • Roller-skating rinks (3)
  • Secretaries (3)
  • Tables (3)
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  • Uniforms (3)
  • Women household employees (3)
  • Women singers (3)
  • Accordionists (2)
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  • Cameras (2)
  • Children (2)
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  • Elephants (2)
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  • Fraternal organizations (2)
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  • Granddaughters (2)
  • Guitar (2)
  • Hospitals (2)
  • Jazz musicians, White (2)
  • Lakes (2)
  • Mirrors (2)
  • Mothers and sons (2)
  • Native American men (2)
  • Office furniture (2)
  • Older men (2)
  • Operating room nurses (2)
  • Orthopedic braces (2)
  • Pearls (2)
  • Pekingese dog (2)
  • Philanthropists (2)
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  • Piano (2)
  • Pince-nez (2)
  • Playgrounds (2)
  • Playgrounds--Equipment and supplies (2)
  • Porches (2)
  • Quarter horse (2)
  • Radio programs, Musical (2)
  • Rocking chairs (2)
  • Sheep (2)
  • Sidewalks (2)
  • Stone walls (2)
  • Surgical plaster casts (2)
  • Trellises (2)
  • Vacations (2)
  • Wagons (2)
  • Wheelchairs (2)
  • Women's clothing (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • Actresses (1)
  • African Americans (1)
  • African American teenage boys (1)
  • Agriculture (1)
  • Amateur radio stations--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Animal trainers (1)
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  • Cake decorating (1)
  • Canning and preserving (1)
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  • Canoes and canoeing (1)
  • Carpets (1)
  • Carriages and carts (1)
  • Cartoonists (1)
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  • Children with disabilities (1)
  • Choirs (Music) (1)
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  • Cities and towns (1)
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  • Conductors (Music) (1)
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  • Fans (1)
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  • Furniture (1)
  • Grandfathers (1)
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  • Operating rooms (1)
  • Pampas grasses (1)
  • Parking lots (1)
  • Pearl jewelry (1)
  • Phonograph (1)
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  • Picnics (1)
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  • Racially mixed children (1)
  • Radio operators--Licenses--United States (1)
  • Railroad stations (1)
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  • Restaurants (1)
  • Sisters (1)
  • Soft drinks (1)
  • Southeast Asians (1)
  • Stained glass windows (1)
  • Surgeons (1)
  • Surgery (1)
  • Surgical instruments and apparatus (1)
  • Sweaters (1)
  • Swings (1)
  • Tents (1)
  • Trusts and trustees (1)
  • Vice-Presidents (1)
  • Wicker furniture (1)
  • Windows (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (90)
  • Marland Estate (Ponca City, Okla.) (10)
  • Independence (Kan.) (5)
  • Columbia River Highway (Or.) (2)
  • Parsons (Kan.) (2)
  • Ponca City (Okla.) (2)
  • Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1)
  • Broadway Boulevard (1)
  • Gettysburg National Military Park (Pa.) (1)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)
  • Kay County (Okla.) (1)
  • Marion (Ind.) (1)
  • Paseo Boulevard,Kansas City (Mo.) (1)
  • Valentine Road (1)

Subjects, People

  • Scoggin, Chic (13)
  • Cookingham, Joseph F., 1861-1933 (9)
  • Cookingham, Elmore E., 1861- (7)
  • Scott, Cornelia (7)
  • Tell, Sylvia (7)
  • Cookingham, Clark G. (6)
  • Cookingham, George G., 1894-1966 (6)
  • Burman, Mary (5)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (5)
  • Fenner, Anna (5)
  • McAllister, Helen Hill (5)
  • Barse, Harriet E. (4)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (4)
  • Hall, Regina (4)
  • Rafter, Evelyn (4)
  • West, Harriet (4)
  • Anderson, Anna (Administrator) (3)
  • Baxter, Phil, 1896-1972 (3)
  • Epperson, Mary E. (3)
  • Epperson, Uriah Spray, 1861-1927 (3)
  • Gordinier, Mame (3)
  • Messersmith, Agnes (3)
  • Pittam, Radford, Mrs. (3)
  • Christensen, Helen (Nurse) (2)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (2)
  • Davis, Dowdal H. (Dowdal Henry), 1913-1957 (2)
  • Doreen, L. M. (2)
  • Massey, Curt (2)
  • McLean, Hal (2)
  • McLean, Percy Lawrence, 1901-1958 (2)
  • Stokes, Harold (2)
  • Tucker, Thad (2)
  • Agnew, Fred (1)
  • Armour, C. W., (Mrs.) (1)
  • Bard, Andreas, 1872-1967 (1)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (1)
  • Beiderbecke, Bix, 1903-1931 (1)
  • Bestor, Don, 1889-1970 (1)
  • Blackburn, Red (1)
  • Blair, Judith (1)
  • Boonhouser, Marjory (1)
  • Bowman, W. C. (Mrs.) (1)
  • Brewster, Reginald Robert, 1876-1946 (1)
  • Butterfield, Erskine, 1913-1961 (1)
  • Calnan, E. F., Sr. (1)
  • Cherry, Jean, 1913-2007 (1)
  • Clayton, Margery (1)
  • Clayton, Simeon Oliver (1)
  • Colorado Pete, 1909-1969 (1)
  • Cookingham, Hazel (1)
  • Curtis, Charles, 1860-1936 (1)
  • Dagley, Lena (1)
  • Davidson, Jo, 1883-1952 (1)
  • Denny, Charles Clayton (1)
  • Disney, Walt, 1901-1966 (1)
  • Dorsey-Clayton, Aritha Anne (1)
  • Garner, Shifford (1)
  • Gordinier, Leroy Grant, 1865-1936 (1)
  • Harman, Dave (1)
  • Hatcher, John (Mrs.) (1)
  • Heinold, George A. (Mrs.) (1)
  • Hirsch, Rudolph (Mrs.) (1)
  • Jones, Isham, 1894-1956 (1)
  • Lishin, Hank (1)
  • Logan, Georgia Xarhis, 1915-2000 (1)
  • Lopez, Vincent, 1894-1975 (1)
  • Lyon, Velma (1)
  • Marland, George Roberts, 1897-1957 (1)
  • McKnight, Charles (1)
  • McLean, Martha (1)
  • McShann, Dutch (1)
  • Medlock, Jack (1)
  • Miller, Joseph C., 1868-1927 (1)
  • Mumford, E. H. (Mrs.) (1)
  • Osborn, Martha (1)
  • Owens, Tex, 1892-1962 (1)
  • Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955 (1)
  • Parker, John Anthony (Ikey) (1)
  • Phillips, L. E. (Lee Eldas), 1876-1944 (1)
  • Phillips, Nodie (1)
  • Phillips, Phil (Musician) (1)
  • Pickett, Bill, approximately 1860-1932 (1)
  • Pleasonton, Alfred, 1824-1897 (1)
  • Reeder, A. J. (Mrs.) (1)
  • Richardson, Katharine, 1858-1933 (1)
  • Roberts, Sam (Otolaryngologist) (1)
  • Stern, Sigmund (Administrator) (1)
  • Walters, Helen (Nurse) (1)
  • Weems, Ted (1)
  • Willett, Alice Cecilia (1)
  • Xarhis, Frank (1)

Date Published

  • 1921 (312)
  • 1911 (9)
  • 1925 (6)
  • 1933 (5)
  • 1920 (2)
  • 1926 (2)
  • 1942 (2)
  • 1901 (1)
  • 1915 (1)
  • 1921.0 (1)
  • 1922 (1)
  • 1924 (1)
  • 1928 (1)
  • 1939 (1)
  • (-) 1930 (371)

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