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Ace Nite Club

Image

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

Advertising print for Chuck Conrad's Truetones

Image

Advertising photo print for Chuck Conrad's Truetones. Band members are playing drums, saxophone, bass, and piano in front of a dark curtain. Bottom of...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Mclean Family Collection

African-American band members looking at sheet music

Image

An unidentified band of African American Musicians, possibly the "Sensationals," gathered among their instruments, looking at the sheet music for "Are...

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

Al Bowlly

Image

Headshot of Al Bowlly wearing a suit and tie while leaning forward and smiling at camera.

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

Arthur B. Church with two unidentified men and one unidentified woman

Image

Arthur B. Church with one unidentified woman and two unidentified men. Church and one man facing each other while holding white, round cake. Woman and...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection

Balbo as a double handful

Image

Harriette Cookingham left side to camera holding up puppy, Balbo, in both hands in the side yard of her house at 667 Burroughs St.

Date Published
1931
1936
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Balbo the dog standing on hind legs

Image

Balbo the dog standing on hind legs begging for treat from someone standing off camera on stoop out side of side door to Burroughs St. house.

Date Published
1931
1936
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Balbo the dog standing on hind legs

Image

Balbo the dog standing on hind legs begging for treat from someone standing off camera in yard.

Date Published
1931
1936
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Beautiful Sniffer

Image

Sniffer the cat standing on stoop out side of side door to Burroughs St. house.

Date Published
1931
1936
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Billboard advertising KMBC's "Phenomenon"

Image

Billboard advertising KMBC's "Phenomenon" program. White background with dark text. Wooden billboard with three lights attached to top of frame...

Date Published
1931
1932
Member of
Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection

Billie Holiday

Image

Signed portrait of Billie Holiday.

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

Billy Eckstein at the Apollo

Image

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

Image

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

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

Birthplace of Edward Eggleston

Image

The side, front, and back of the two-story house which was the birthplace of Edward Eggleston in Vevay, Indiana. Stamped on the photograph in the...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Bobby Byrne and his orchestra

Image

Headshot of Bobby Byrne leaning forward on arms, looking to the side, and holding a baton against his shoulder. Byrne is wearing a black tuxedo with...

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

Brick house at 667 Burroughs St.

Image

Brick house at 667 Burroughs St., Plymouth, Michigan.

Date Published
1931
1936
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Buck Clayton's first professional band

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Portrait of the Red Mill Dance Hall Band (Buck Clayton's first professional band) Buck Clayton, trumpet; Theodore Cruz, alto saxophone; Pete Kinard...

Date Published
1931
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Cab Calloway

Image

Close-up headshot of Cab Calloway.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Brian Thurn Collection

Candy girls Loretta Bruce and Lillian Peterson

Image

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

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

Casa Loma Orchestra

Image

Publicity photo of the Casa Loma Orchestra, on stage in tuxedos. Back row, standing, left to right: Frank Martinez (?), trumpet; Gene Gifford, guitar...

Date Published
1931
1935
Member of
Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection

Children eating together at a long table

Image

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 outside on the lawn

Image

Ten white girls and boys outside on the hospital lawn posing for a photo. Six are seated in a rolling hospital cart; one girl is seated on a tricycle...

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

Image

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

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Member of

  • Dolores Hobley Collection (44)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (31)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (28)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (22)
  • Ted Malone Collection (15)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (14)
  • Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection (10)
  • Mclean Family Collection (4)
  • Baron Missakian Collection (3)
  • Brian Thurn Collection (3)
  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (3)
  • Jay McShann Collection (2)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (2)
  • Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection (2)
  • Ed Dix Collection (1)
  • Helen Xarhis-DePasco Collection (1)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (1)
  • Martha Jane Starr Collection (1)
  • Postcard - Mount Rushmore under construction (1)
  • Priscilla Bowman Collection (1)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (185)

Genres

  • Gelatin silver prints (189)
  • Portrait photographs (98)
  • Snapshots (85)
  • Group portraits (69)
  • Publicity photographs (33)
  • Architectural photographs (10)
  • Cityscape photographs (3)
  • Postcards (2)
  • Reproductions (2)
  • (-) Black & white photographs (190)

Time Periods

  • 1931-1940 (159)
  • 1941-1950 (11)
  • 1921-1930 (4)
  • 1911-1920 (1)

Subjects

  • African American men (39)
  • Men, White (37)
  • Jazz musicians (33)
  • African American women (31)
  • African American jazz musicians (27)
  • Women, White (22)
  • Children, White (18)
  • Automobiles (13)
  • Children--Hospital care (13)
  • Hospital patients (13)
  • Boys (12)
  • Dwellings (12)
  • Girls (12)
  • Buildings (11)
  • Trumpet players (11)
  • Jazz musicians, White (10)
  • Musicians (10)
  • Nurses (10)
  • Radio personalities (9)
  • Country musicians (8)
  • Hospital buildings (8)
  • Musical groups (8)
  • Pets (8)
  • Radio programs, Musical (8)
  • African American children (6)
  • Conductors (Music) (6)
  • Actors (5)
  • Comedians (5)
  • Dogs (5)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (5)
  • Jazz singers (5)
  • Nursing students (5)
  • Toddlers (5)
  • Autographs (4)
  • Big bands (4)
  • Furniture (4)
  • Hospital beds (4)
  • Infants (4)
  • Neckties (4)
  • Physicians (4)
  • Pianists (4)
  • Signs and signboards (4)
  • Trees (4)
  • African American teenage girls (3)
  • African American women jazz singers (3)
  • Cartoonists (3)
  • Coats (3)
  • Hospital administrators (3)
  • Hospitals (3)
  • Male singers (3)
  • Motion picture producers and directors (3)
  • Piano (3)
  • Streets (3)
  • Trombonists (3)
  • Wheelchairs (3)
  • African American comedians (2)
  • Audiences (2)
  • Authors, American--Homes and haunts (2)
  • Bandages and bandaging (2)
  • Band directors (2)
  • Band leaders (2)
  • Banjoists (2)
  • Beaches (2)
  • Boards of directors (2)
  • Brothers and sisters (2)
  • Businessmen (2)
  • Cats (2)
  • Dance orchestras (2)
  • Dancers (2)
  • Dining rooms (2)
  • Dinners and dining (2)
  • Fraternal organizations (2)
  • Fur garments (2)
  • Hats (2)
  • Living rooms (2)
  • Mountains (2)
  • Nightclubs (2)
  • Printing plants (2)
  • Publishers and publishing (2)
  • Roofs (2)
  • Saxophonists (2)
  • Sculpture (2)
  • Teenage girls (2)
  • Tennis players (2)
  • Toys (2)
  • Tricycles (2)
  • Actresses (1)
  • African American actresses (1)
  • African American band directors (1)
  • African American fraternal organizations (1)
  • African American infants (1)
  • African American motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Aquariums (1)
  • Armed Forces--Headquarters (1)
  • Authors, American (1)
  • Banners (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
  • Battlefields (1)
  • Bicycles (1)
  • Billboards (1)
  • Blackface entertainers (1)
  • Bodies of water (1)
  • Books (1)
  • Bouquets (1)
  • Bow ties (1)
  • Businesswomen (1)
  • Candy (1)
  • Carports (1)
  • Carriages and carts (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Children's costumes (1)
  • Children's furniture (1)
  • Cigarette smokers (1)
  • Classrooms (1)
  • Cleft palate (1)
  • Cleft palate children (1)
  • Clergy (1)
  • Climbing plants (1)
  • Clowns (1)
  • College students (1)
  • Consumer goods (1)
  • Corncobs (1)
  • Corsages (1)
  • Costume (1)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (1)
  • Crutches (1)
  • Dance halls (1)
  • Department stores (1)
  • Dollhouses (1)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Euphonium (1)
  • Eyeglasses (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Fathers (1)
  • Fences (1)
  • Fezzes (1)
  • Fireplaces (1)
  • Gardens (1)
  • Grandfathers (1)
  • Greek letter societies (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Handicraft (1)
  • Horses (1)
  • Hospitals--Employees (1)
  • Household linens--Storage (1)
  • Jazz ensembles (1)
  • Laughter (1)
  • Literature--Societies, etc. (1)
  • Lobbies (Rooms) (1)
  • Log cabins (1)
  • Masks (1)
  • Memorials in art (1)
  • Men's clothing (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Military hospitals, American (1)
  • Military uniforms (1)
  • Mother and child (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (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)
  • Physical therapists (1)
  • Physicians' spouses (1)
  • Pipe smoking (1)
  • Playgrounds (1)
  • Playgrounds--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Postcards (1)
  • Post horn (1)
  • Presidents--Inauguration (1)
  • Puppies (1)
  • Rabbits (1)
  • Radio stations--Employees (1)
  • Rocking horses (1)
  • Sailors (1)
  • Science--Study and teaching (1)
  • Septets (1)
  • Storage cabinets (1)
  • Stuffed animals (Toys) (1)
  • Sun-baths (1)
  • Surgeons (1)
  • Surgical plaster casts (1)
  • Surgical scrub (1)
  • Swimming (1)
  • Tables (1)
  • Tap dancers (1)
  • Telephone (1)
  • Tennis rackets (1)
  • Theaters (1)
  • Trolley buses--Wires and wiring (1)
  • Trucks (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Twins (1)
  • Ventriloquists (1)
  • Vibraphonists (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Wagons (1)
  • Wicker furniture (1)
  • Women's clothing (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (16)
  • Independence (Kan.) (4)
  • Plymouth (Mich.) (4)
  • East Aurora (N.Y.) (2)
  • Keystone (S.D.) (2)
  • Topeka (Kan.) (2)
  • Vevay (Ind.) (2)
  • Cassville (Mo.) (1)
  • Fort Donelson National Battlefield (Tenn.) (1)
  • Frederick (Md.) (1)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)
  • Kirksville (Mo.) (1)
  • San Francisco (Calif.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Davis, Dowdal H. (Dowdal Henry), 1913-1957 (9)
  • Malone, Ted, 1908-1989 (9)
  • Crawford, Captain Bob (5)
  • Christiansen, Helen (4)
  • Kratoska, Herb, 1913-1975 (4)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (3)
  • Disney, Walt, 1901-1966 (3)
  • Jordan, Orchid, 1910-1995 (3)
  • Prima, Louis, 1910-1978 (3)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (2)
  • Cherry, Jean, 1913-2007 (2)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (2)
  • Cool, Gomer (2)
  • Eckstine, Billy (2)
  • Edison, Harry, 1915-1999 (2)
  • Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 (2)
  • Hartman, Clarence, 1890-1969 (2)
  • Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (2)
  • Osborn, Martha (2)
  • Sells, Paul (2)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (2)
  • Young, Snooky (2)
  • Anderson, Eddie, 1905-1977 (1)
  • Atkins, Cholly (1)
  • Ayres, Mitchell, 1910-1969 (1)
  • Bailey, Pearl (1)
  • Barnett, Vince, 1902-1977 (1)
  • Beavers, Louis, 1902-1962 (1)
  • Bee, Clarence (1)
  • Bergen, Edgar, 1903-1978 (1)
  • Berle, Milton (1)
  • Bernadin, Frank (1)
  • Berry, Emmett (1)
  • Bolling, Jim (1)
  • Bowlly, Al (1)
  • Bruce, Loretta (1)
  • Busse, Henry, 1894-1955 (1)
  • Byrne, Bobby, 1918-2006 (1)
  • Cagney, James, 1899-1986 (1)
  • Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994 (1)
  • Cantor, Eddie, 1892-1964 (1)
  • Canvin, Bobbie (1)
  • Church, Arthur B. (Arthur Burdette), 1896-1978 (1)
  • Clarke, Mae (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)
  • Downey, Morton, 1901-1985 (1)
  • Dunbar, Helen, 1868-1933 (1)
  • Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 (1)
  • Garrette, Duke (1)
  • Gordon, George (Administrator) (1)
  • Hackett, Bobby (1)
  • Hawkins, Coleman (1)
  • Heard, J. C. (James Charles), 1917-1988 (1)
  • Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 (1)
  • Johnson, James P. (James Price), 1894-1955 (1)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Kuhn, Louie (1)
  • Lewis, Ed, 1909-1985 (1)
  • Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (1)
  • Markham, Pigmeat (1)
  • Mason, John Henry, 1895-1952 (1)
  • McLean, Martha (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Memphis Slim (1)
  • Mills, Solomon (1)
  • Olsen, George, 1893-1971 (1)
  • Peete, Virginia (1)
  • Peterson, Lillian (1)
  • Redman, Don (1)
  • Reser, Harry (1)
  • Sheffield, Leslie, 1910- (1)
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (1)
  • Starr, John Wilbur, 1905-2000 (1)
  • Taylor, Johnny (Musician) (1)
  • Weaver, Margaret (1)
  • Xarhis, Frank (1)
  • Xarhis, James John, 1924-1992 (1)
  • Xarhis, Jerry John, 1924-1981 (1)

Date Published

  • 1940 (123)
  • 1935 (26)
  • 1936 (14)
  • 1950 (13)
  • 1929 (4)
  • 1939 (2)
  • 1932 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • (-) 1931 (190)

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