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Advertisement for Chic's 14 Pla-Mors

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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

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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

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

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"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

Bennie and Lizzie in the garden at Marland Estate

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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

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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

Brown Chapel Choir

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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

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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

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

Date Published
1930
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

California bound

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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

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

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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

Chic Scoggin and his Pla-Mor Orchestra performing

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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

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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

Children and nurse in physical therapy

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White female nurse with three young patients (two white girls, the third possibly Southeast Asian, sex indeterminate) in the physical therapy unit...

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

Children and nurse in the physical therapy room

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Unidentified white female nurse working with young patients in the physiotherapy room. One white girl is lying on a table, a white boy standing with...

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

Children playing in a hospital ward

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Three white female nurses in a hospital ward with white girl toddlers engaged in various play activities on the floor between rows of beds. A stained...

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

Children playing in a toy wagon

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An unidentified African American child in the front of a toy wagon, likely an "American Coaster" has a big grin as the unidentified African American...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Clark, George and Joseph Cookingham with unidentified persons sitting at a picnic table having a meal.

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Clark, George and Joseph Cookingham with unidentified persons sitting at a picnic table having a meal.

Date Published
1930
1933
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Cornelia sits on a wall in a garden with a friend

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Neal [Cornelia Scott], with her left arm around a dog, sits on a rock wall to the right of an unidentified African American woman standing in an...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Cribs on a porch

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Cribs in a row, with infants, on a porch on the third floor baby ward at Children's Mercy Hospital.

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

Doctors and nurses with patients in a ward

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Doctors (white men) and nurses (white women) attending to patients (white girls and boys) in a ward of the hospital. Many hospital beds and a wagon...

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

Dr. Katharine Richardson and Lena Dagley

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Dr. Katharine Richardson and Lena Dagley working in an office at 121 Clinton Place at Children's Mercy Hospital. Richardson is sitting at a desk in...

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

Dr. Norton with girl outside the hospital

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Doctor Norton with her arm around a young white girl patient on a sidewalk outside of Children's Mercy Hospital. Norton is looking down at the girl...

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

Eight people posing for a photograph

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An unidentified group of five African American women and three African American men are gathered in a group between two clapboard houses for a...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Ella Cookingham and Mame Gordinier at Shepperds Dell Bridge

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Ella Cookingham and Mame Gordinier stand by the railing of Shepperds Dell Bridge.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Ella Cookingham and Mame Gordinier at Shepperds Dell Bridge

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Ella Cookingham and Mame Gordinier stand by the railing of Shepperds Dell Bridge.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

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Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (63)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (41)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (19)
  • Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection (18)
  • U.S. Epperson Collection (8)
  • Mclean Family Collection (4)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (4)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (2)
  • Helen Xarhis-DePasco Collection (1)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)
  • Postcard - Ben-Ton Orchestra (1)
  • Postcard - El Torreon Orchestra (1)
  • Postcard - The Coon Sanders Band (1)

Types

  • photographs (157)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (164)
  • Gelatin silver prints (163)
  • Snapshots (118)
  • Portrait photographs (54)
  • Publicity photographs (13)
  • Postcards (6)
  • Architectural photographs (1)
  • Card photographs (1)
  • (-) Group portraits (164)

Time Periods

  • 1921-1930 (160)
  • 1911-1920 (6)
  • 1931-1940 (5)

Subjects

  • Women, White (63)
  • Nurses (55)
  • Children, White (42)
  • Children--Hospital care (42)
  • Hospital patients (41)
  • African American women (36)
  • African American men (28)
  • Boys (19)
  • Girls (19)
  • Hospital buildings (17)
  • Big bands (15)
  • Families (14)
  • African American children (13)
  • Men, White (11)
  • Toddlers (11)
  • Infants (9)
  • Tricycles (8)
  • Automobiles (7)
  • Buildings (7)
  • Dogs (7)
  • Musicians (6)
  • Physicians (6)
  • Saxophonists (6)
  • Stairs (6)
  • Surgical nursing (6)
  • Trumpet players (6)
  • Architecture, Domestic (5)
  • Dwellings (5)
  • Hospital beds (5)
  • Toys (5)
  • African American jazz musicians (4)
  • Crutches (4)
  • Jazz musicians (4)
  • Physical therapy--Equipment and supplies (4)
  • Physical therapy for children (4)
  • Student nurses (4)
  • Trombonists (4)
  • Bathing suits (3)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (3)
  • Dinners and dining (3)
  • Hydrotherapy for children (3)
  • Signs and signboards (3)
  • Women household employees (3)
  • Accordionists (2)
  • Balls (Sporting goods) (2)
  • Bandages and bandaging (2)
  • Beaches (2)
  • Benches (2)
  • Cameras (2)
  • Children's furniture (2)
  • Church buildings (2)
  • Dolls (2)
  • Doors (2)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Elephants (2)
  • Hats (2)
  • Hospitals--Employees (2)
  • Lakes (2)
  • Parks (2)
  • Secretaries (2)
  • Statues (2)
  • Surgical plaster casts (2)
  • Trees (2)
  • Umbrellas (2)
  • Uniforms (2)
  • Vacations (2)
  • Violinists (2)
  • Wagons (2)
  • Wheelchairs (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • Actresses (1)
  • African Americans (1)
  • Agriculture (1)
  • Animal trainers (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Awnings (1)
  • Baby rattles (1)
  • Barns (1)
  • Barrels (1)
  • Baseball players (1)
  • Battlefield monuments (1)
  • Bodies of water (1)
  • Brothers (1)
  • Bruises (1)
  • Canning and preserving (1)
  • Canning and preserving--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Canoes and canoeing (1)
  • Cats (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Choirs (Music) (1)
  • Circus animals (1)
  • Cities and towns (1)
  • Clerks (1)
  • Cooks (1)
  • Couples (1)
  • Cowboys (1)
  • Desks (1)
  • Exhibit booths (1)
  • Fezzes (1)
  • Fishers (1)
  • Flags (1)
  • Fraternal organizations (1)
  • Gardens (1)
  • Granddaughters (1)
  • Grandfathers (1)
  • Horses (1)
  • Hospital administrators (1)
  • Interns (Medicine) (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Kissing (1)
  • Lawn chairs (1)
  • Medical instruments and apparatus (1)
  • Mothers and sons (1)
  • Native American men (1)
  • Nursing students (1)
  • Offices (1)
  • Older men (1)
  • Operating room nursing (1)
  • Operating rooms (1)
  • Orthopedic braces (1)
  • Pampas grasses (1)
  • Pets (1)
  • Physical therapists (1)
  • Picnics (1)
  • Play (1)
  • Porches (1)
  • Quarter horse (1)
  • Racially mixed children (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Rocking chairs (1)
  • Shrubs (1)
  • Sidewalks (1)
  • Soft drinks (1)
  • Southeast Asians (1)
  • Stained glass windows (1)
  • Stone walls (1)
  • Surgeons (1)
  • Surgery (1)
  • Surgical instruments and apparatus (1)
  • Swings (1)
  • Tents (1)
  • Windows (1)
  • Women's clothing (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (42)
  • Marland Estate (Ponca City, Okla.) (7)
  • Columbia River Highway (Or.) (2)
  • Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1)
  • Gettysburg National Military Park (Pa.) (1)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)
  • Kay County (Okla.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Cookingham, Joseph F., 1861-1933 (9)
  • Scoggin, Chic (9)
  • Cookingham, George G., 1894-1966 (6)
  • Scott, Cornelia (6)
  • Burman, Mary (5)
  • Cookingham, Clark G. (5)
  • Cookingham, Elmore E., 1861- (5)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (5)
  • McAllister, Helen Hill (5)
  • Barse, Harriet E. (4)
  • Fenner, Anna (4)
  • Rafter, Evelyn (4)
  • West, Harriet (4)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (3)
  • Epperson, Mary E. (3)
  • Epperson, Uriah Spray, 1861-1927 (3)
  • Gordinier, Mame (3)
  • Baxter, Phil, 1896-1972 (2)
  • Christensen, Helen (Nurse) (2)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (2)
  • McLean, Hal (2)
  • McLean, Percy Lawrence, 1901-1958 (2)
  • Messersmith, Agnes (2)
  • Stokes, Harold (2)
  • Beiderbecke, Bix, 1903-1931 (1)
  • Calnan, E. F., Sr. (1)
  • Cherry, Jean, 1913-2007 (1)
  • Clayton, Margery (1)
  • Clayton, Simeon Oliver (1)
  • Cookingham, Hazel (1)
  • Dagley, Lena (1)
  • Dorsey-Clayton, Aritha Anne (1)
  • Garner, Shifford (1)
  • Harman, Dave (1)
  • Logan, Georgia Xarhis, 1915-2000 (1)
  • Lopez, Vincent, 1894-1975 (1)
  • Massey, Curt (1)
  • McKnight, Charles (1)
  • McLean, Martha (1)
  • Medlock, Jack (1)
  • Miller, Joseph C., 1868-1927 (1)
  • Osborn, Martha (1)
  • Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955 (1)
  • Parker, John Anthony (Ikey) (1)
  • Pickett, Bill, approximately 1860-1932 (1)
  • Pleasonton, Alfred, 1824-1897 (1)
  • Richardson, Katharine, 1858-1933 (1)
  • Tucker, Thad (1)
  • Weems, Ted (1)
  • Xarhis, Frank (1)

Date Published

  • 1921 (145)
  • 1911 (6)
  • 1933 (5)
  • 1924 (1)
  • 1925 (1)
  • 1926 (1)
  • 1928 (1)
  • (-) 1930 (164)

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