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"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

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 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 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

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

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

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

Child in a high chair outside

Image
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White toddler girl outside in a high chair with a tray looking up into the sky. Flowers are under the high chair.

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

Child in the water tank for therapy

Image

Young white patient suspended in a water tank by a harness for physiotherapy. The child's back is to the camera and there's a screen along the side of...

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

Clark Cookingham wearing cap and jacket holds dog

Image

Clark Cookingham wearing cap and dark jacket holds dog while standing in snow.

Date Published
1930
1939
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

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

Image

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 in the garden

Image

Neal [Cornelia Scott], an African American woman, is slightly bent while she is standing in a field of flowers in a casual, sleeveless floral dress...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Count Basie

Image

Promotional photo of Count Basie seated at the piano.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Brian Thurn Collection

Diagonally cut button placard on a women's suit

Image

A studio portrait of an unidentified African American woman wearing a light-colored suit with diagonal points along the button placard to form layers...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Don Bestor and his orchestra

Image

Headshot of Don Bestor looking forward and smiling, wearing rimless glasses, a tuxedo, and white bowtie.

Date Published
1925
1930
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dowdal H. Davis' mother in sleeveless, v-neck dress

Image

The mother of Dowdal H. Davis stands by a bentwood chair outside in the yard wearing a bell hat, gloves, a lavalier necklace, and a light colored...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Dowdal H. Davis' mother relaxes in a bentwood chair

Image

The mother of Dowdal H. Davis in the yard outside of a house. She sits in a bentwood garden chair wearing a bell hat, gloves, a lavalier necklace, and...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

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Member of

  • Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection (45)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (44)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (36)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (25)
  • Baron Missakian Collection (21)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (17)
  • U.S. Epperson Collection (10)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (7)
  • Mclean Family Collection (4)
  • Brian Thurn Collection (1)
  • Jay McShann 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 (208)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (212)
  • Gelatin silver prints (210)
  • Snapshots (86)
  • Group portraits (54)
  • Publicity photographs (53)
  • Postcards (6)
  • Mixed media (3)
  • Card photographs (1)
  • Color photographs (1)
  • Halftone photomechanical prints (1)
  • Photographic postcards (1)
  • Photomechanical prints (1)
  • (-) Portrait photographs (215)

Time Periods

  • 1921-1930 (197)
  • 1911-1920 (11)
  • 1931-1940 (6)
  • 1901-1910 (1)

Subjects

  • Women, White (37)
  • African American women (32)
  • Jazz musicians (20)
  • African American men (19)
  • Men, White (19)
  • Big bands (15)
  • Hats (14)
  • Children, White (13)
  • Families (12)
  • Children--Hospital care (11)
  • Girls (11)
  • Hospital patients (11)
  • Nurses (11)
  • Hospital administrators (10)
  • Physicians (9)
  • Boards of directors (8)
  • Dwellings (8)
  • Hospital buildings (7)
  • Musicians (7)
  • Shrubs (7)
  • Costume (6)
  • Dogs (6)
  • Saxophonists (6)
  • Trumpet players (6)
  • African American children (5)
  • African American jazz musicians (5)
  • Architecture, Domestic (5)
  • Crutches (5)
  • Jewelry (5)
  • Violinists (5)
  • Automobiles (4)
  • Trombonists (4)
  • Bathing suits (3)
  • Bentwood furniture (3)
  • Boys (3)
  • Clergy (3)
  • Desks (3)
  • Gardens (3)
  • Mothers (3)
  • Otolaryngologists (3)
  • Pets (3)
  • Physical therapy--Equipment and supplies (3)
  • Physical therapy for children (3)
  • Pianists (3)
  • Toddlers (3)
  • Women singers (3)
  • Accordionists (2)
  • Bags (2)
  • Ballet dancers (2)
  • Bandages and bandaging (2)
  • Barns (2)
  • Bodies of water (2)
  • Children (2)
  • Cigars (2)
  • Dolls (2)
  • Doors (2)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Guitar (2)
  • Horses (2)
  • Hospitals--Employees (2)
  • Jazz musicians, White (2)
  • Office furniture (2)
  • Operating room nurses (2)
  • Parks (2)
  • Pearls (2)
  • Philanthropists (2)
  • Pince-nez (2)
  • Sheep (2)
  • Snow (2)
  • Stairs (2)
  • Statues (2)
  • Tables (2)
  • Vacations (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • Actresses (1)
  • African Americans (1)
  • African American teenage boys (1)
  • Agriculture (1)
  • Automobiles, Convertible (1)
  • Baseball players (1)
  • Benches (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Businessmen (1)
  • Cake decorating (1)
  • Carpets (1)
  • Carriages and carts (1)
  • Cartoonists (1)
  • Cats (1)
  • Children's furniture (1)
  • Children with disabilities (1)
  • Choirs (Music) (1)
  • Cigarette smokers (1)
  • Clutch bags (1)
  • Conductors (Music) (1)
  • Couples (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Dermatologists (1)
  • Dinners and dining (1)
  • Docks (1)
  • Elephants in art (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Fans (1)
  • Fezzes (1)
  • Filing systems (1)
  • Flowering trees (1)
  • Flowers (1)
  • Fraternal organizations (1)
  • Fur garments (1)
  • Furniture (1)
  • Hospital beds (1)
  • Housemothers (1)
  • Hydrotherapy for children (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Lawyers (1)
  • Mansions (1)
  • Mirrors (1)
  • Native American men (1)
  • Older men (1)
  • Orthopedic braces (1)
  • Pearl jewelry (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Picnics (1)
  • Ponies (1)
  • Porches (1)
  • Quarter horse (1)
  • Rocking chairs (1)
  • Secretaries (1)
  • Sidewalks (1)
  • Sisters (1)
  • Stone walls (1)
  • Sweaters (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • Trusts and trustees (1)
  • Uniforms (1)
  • Vice-Presidents (1)
  • Women's clothing (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (28)
  • Independence (Kan.) (3)
  • Columbia River Highway (Or.) (2)
  • Marland Estate (Ponca City, Okla.) (2)
  • Ponca City (Okla.) (2)

Subjects, People

  • Scoggin, Chic (13)
  • Cookingham, Joseph F., 1861-1933 (8)
  • Cookingham, Elmore E., 1861- (7)
  • Tell, Sylvia (7)
  • Cookingham, Clark G. (5)
  • Cookingham, George G., 1894-1966 (5)
  • Barse, Harriet E. (4)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (4)
  • Hall, Regina (4)
  • Anderson, Anna (Administrator) (3)
  • Baxter, Phil, 1896-1972 (3)
  • Epperson, Mary E. (3)
  • Epperson, Uriah Spray, 1861-1927 (3)
  • Gordinier, Mame (3)
  • Pittam, Radford, Mrs. (3)
  • Butterfield, Erskine, 1913-1961 (2)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (2)
  • Doreen, L. M. (2)
  • Massey, Curt (2)
  • McLean, Hal (2)
  • McLean, Percy Lawrence, 1901-1958 (2)
  • Stokes, Harold (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)
  • Calnan, E. F., Sr. (1)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (1)
  • Clayton, Simeon Oliver (1)
  • Cookingham, Hazel (1)
  • Curtis, Charles, 1860-1936 (1)
  • Denny, Charles Clayton (1)
  • Disney, Walt, 1901-1966 (1)
  • Dorsey-Clayton, Aritha Anne (1)
  • Fenner, Anna (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)
  • Lopez, Vincent, 1894-1975 (1)
  • Lyon, Velma (1)
  • McLean, Martha (1)
  • McShann, Dutch (1)
  • Messersmith, Agnes (1)
  • Mumford, E. H. (Mrs.) (1)
  • Phillips, L. E. (Lee Eldas), 1876-1944 (1)
  • Phillips, Nodie (1)
  • Phillips, Phil (Musician) (1)
  • Reeder, A. J. (Mrs.) (1)
  • Roberts, Sam (Otolaryngologist) (1)
  • Scott, Cornelia (1)
  • Stern, Sigmund (Administrator) (1)
  • Tucker, Thad (1)
  • Walters, Helen (Nurse) (1)
  • Weems, Ted (1)
  • Whiteman, Paul, 1890-1967 (1)
  • Willett, Alice Cecilia (1)

Date Published

  • 1921 (169)
  • 1911 (7)
  • 1925 (6)
  • 1933 (4)
  • 1920 (2)
  • 1901 (1)
  • 1915 (1)
  • 1924 (1)
  • 1926 (1)
  • 1928 (1)
  • 1939 (1)
  • (-) 1930 (215)

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