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Ace Nite Club

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Ace Nite Club, located at 700 E. 12th Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Two cars are parked on the street in front and an unidentified man stands next to...

Date Published
1931
1935
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Billy Eckstein at the Apollo

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Billy Eckstine on stage at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Billy Eckstein on stage

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Billy Eckstine singing into a microphone at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Candy girls Loretta Bruce and Lillian Peterson

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Candy girls Loretta Bruce and Lillian Peterson at an unknown theater.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Children eating together at a long table

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Seven children (white boys) eating dinner together at a long table in the hospital dining room. On child has their head bandaged.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children on the third floor porch

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Unidentified white female nurse tending to young patients (white girls and boys) on an outside terrace. There's a girl in bandages in a wheelchair and...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children playing in the Junior League Playroom

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Children (all white) playing in the Junior League Playroom at Children's Mercy Hospital supervised by nurses. There are young boys and girls playing...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children reading on hospital beds

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Young white girl and two white boys sitting on a hospital bed with books in hand, one young boy is holding a small piece of paper up. Another boy is...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Clarence "Pinetop" Smith's two sons

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Clarence "Pinetop" Smith's two sons at a piano. One is sitting and playing the piano while looking to the side. The other is standing and looking down...

Date Published
1931
1935
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams standing in front of a wooden barn. Williams is wearing a dark jacket and looking forward.

Date Published
1931
1935
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Doctor's scrubbing before surgery

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Three unidentified white male doctors in white pants, t-shirts, and wearing caps and mask gathered around a sink while scrubbing up before surgery.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Don Redman and His Orchestra performing on stage

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Don Redman and his Orchestra performing on stage.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection

Dowdal Davis and a woman sit on the steps with their eyes cast down

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Dowdal Davis and an unidentified African American woman sitting on the steps of a building both looking down, both holding their head with their hand...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Dowdal Davis stands between two women on a sidewalk

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Two unidentified African American women flanking Dowdal Davis are all smiling as they stand outdoors. Dowdal has his arms around the shoulders of each...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Dowdal Davis stands by a woman that sits by the steps

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Dowdal Davis and an unidentified African American woman (possibly Dowdal's sister Marguerite Davis) smile as they pose by the steps to the Davis home...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Dowdal Davis stands by the net of a tennis court

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Dowdal Davis holds a tennis racquet and wears a dark cardigan sweater over a light-colored shirt and long pants as he stands by the net on a tennis...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Dowdal Davis wears an IHS letter sweater

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Dowdal Davis in a school sweater with the initials I.H.S. on an applied banner over an applied "I" over eagle wings. He stands on a sidewalk outside a...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Eddie Cantor and an unidentified man reading

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Eddie Cantor, wearing a double breasted suit and tie, and an unidentified man holding a piece of paper together. Cantor is looking at the paper with...

Date Published
1931
1935
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Edwards Sisters

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The Edwards Sisters performing on stage at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York with unidentified pianist behind them.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Exterior view of Children's Mercy Hospital

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Exterior front view of Children's Mercy Hospital from across and down the street. On the right of the photo is a chalkboard sign reading "We need 500...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Exterior view of Children's Mercy Hospital

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Exterior view of Children's Mercy Hospital's Northeast view showing roof for air therapy, open air porch behind heavy vines 3rd floor.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Exterior view of the hospital

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Exterior view of Children's Mercy Hospital taken from across the street and to the right. Trees and parked cars are also seen in front of the building...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Girl with cleft-lip and palate

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White girl with a cleft-lip and palate wearing a dress and posing for a photo by the steps of her home in Cassville, Missouri.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Girl with hand in traction

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Young white girl patient sitting on table with her right wrist in a sling hanging from a pulley on the ceiling.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Graduating class photo

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Graduating class photo in front of a large brick building. Orchid Jordan is standing in the first row, sixth from right. Everyone is wearing black...

Date Published
1931
1935
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

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Member of

  • Dolores Hobley Collection (29)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (27)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (12)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (7)
  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (3)
  • Ed Dix Collection (1)
  • Helen Xarhis-DePasco Collection (1)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (1)
  • Martha Jane Starr Collection (1)
  • Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection (1)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (85)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (85)
  • Gelatin silver prints (85)
  • Group portraits (44)
  • Portrait photographs (38)
  • Architectural photographs (6)
  • Cityscape photographs (3)
  • (-) Snapshots (85)

Time Periods

  • 1931-1940 (71)
  • 1921-1930 (2)
  • 1911-1920 (1)

Subjects

  • African American men (24)
  • African American women (17)
  • Children, White (16)
  • Women, White (14)
  • Automobiles (12)
  • Children--Hospital care (12)
  • Hospital patients (12)
  • African American jazz musicians (11)
  • Boys (11)
  • Jazz musicians (10)
  • Nurses (10)
  • Girls (9)
  • Hospital buildings (8)
  • Buildings (6)
  • Men, White (6)
  • Nursing students (5)
  • African American children (4)
  • Hospital beds (4)
  • Jazz singers (4)
  • Dwellings (3)
  • Hospitals (3)
  • Physicians (3)
  • Piano (3)
  • Streets (3)
  • Trees (3)
  • Wheelchairs (3)
  • African American comedians (2)
  • African American women jazz singers (2)
  • Bandages and bandaging (2)
  • Beaches (2)
  • Brothers and sisters (2)
  • Comedians (2)
  • Dinners and dining (2)
  • Infants (2)
  • Nightclubs (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Roofs (2)
  • Signs and signboards (2)
  • Toddlers (2)
  • Toys (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • African American fraternal organizations (1)
  • African American teenage girls (1)
  • Aquariums (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
  • Bicycles (1)
  • Big bands (1)
  • Blackface entertainers (1)
  • Bodies of water (1)
  • Books (1)
  • Candy (1)
  • Carports (1)
  • Children's costumes (1)
  • Children's furniture (1)
  • Cigarette smokers (1)
  • Classrooms (1)
  • Cleft palate (1)
  • Cleft palate children (1)
  • Climbing plants (1)
  • Clowns (1)
  • Coats (1)
  • Costume (1)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (1)
  • Dance halls (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Dining rooms (1)
  • Dogs (1)
  • Dollhouses (1)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Euphonium (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Fences (1)
  • Fezzes (1)
  • Fur garments (1)
  • Gardens (1)
  • Grandfathers (1)
  • Greek letter societies (1)
  • Handicraft (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Hospital administrators (1)
  • Hospitals--Employees (1)
  • Household linens--Storage (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Laughter (1)
  • Lobbies (Rooms) (1)
  • Male singers (1)
  • Office furniture (1)
  • Older women (1)
  • Organists (1)
  • Orthopedic braces (1)
  • Orthopedic traction (1)
  • Orthopedic traction--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Parade floats (1)
  • Parades (1)
  • Pets (1)
  • Physical therapists (1)
  • Playgrounds (1)
  • Playgrounds--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Rabbits (1)
  • Rocking horses (1)
  • Science--Study and teaching (1)
  • Storage cabinets (1)
  • Sun-baths (1)
  • Surgeons (1)
  • Surgical plaster casts (1)
  • Surgical scrub (1)
  • Swimming (1)
  • Tables (1)
  • Tap dancers (1)
  • Tennis players (1)
  • Tennis rackets (1)
  • Theaters (1)
  • Tricycles (1)
  • Trolley buses--Wires and wiring (1)
  • Trucks (1)
  • Twins (1)
  • Vibraphonists (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Wicker furniture (1)
  • Women's clothing (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (12)
  • Independence (Kan.) (2)
  • Cassville (Mo.) (1)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)
  • Kirksville (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Davis, Dowdal H. (Dowdal Henry), 1913-1957 (7)
  • Christiansen, Helen (4)
  • Jordan, Orchid, 1910-1995 (3)
  • Eckstine, Billy (2)
  • Edison, Harry, 1915-1999 (2)
  • Osborn, Martha (2)
  • Young, Snooky (2)
  • Anderson, Eddie, 1905-1977 (1)
  • Atkins, Cholly (1)
  • Bailey, Pearl (1)
  • Bolling, Jim (1)
  • Bruce, Loretta (1)
  • Cantor, Eddie, 1892-1964 (1)
  • Clayton, Simeon Oliver (1)
  • Coles, Honi, 1911-1992 (1)
  • Davis, Marguerite (of Independence, Kan.) (1)
  • Davis, Wild Bill, 1918-1995 (1)
  • Denis, Michel (Drummer) (1)
  • DePasco, Helen Xarhis, 1921-1992 (1)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (1)
  • Doriz, Dany (1)
  • Markham, Pigmeat (1)
  • Mason, John Henry, 1895-1952 (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Memphis Slim (1)
  • Peete, Virginia (1)
  • Peterson, Lillian (1)
  • Redman, Don (1)
  • Starr, John Wilbur, 1905-2000 (1)
  • Taylor, Johnny (Musician) (1)
  • Weaver, Margaret (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)
  • Xarhis, Frank (1)
  • Xarhis, James John, 1924-1992 (1)
  • Xarhis, Jerry John, 1924-1981 (1)

Date Published

  • 1940 (72)
  • 1935 (10)
  • 1929 (2)
  • (-) 1931 (85)

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