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Advertising print for Chuck Conrad's Truetones

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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

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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

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

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

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

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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 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

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

Class photo

Image

A class photo of thirty two men and women, both African American and white, posed in three levels of sitting on the ground, seated in chairs, and then...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Dolores Hobley 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

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

Emmet Berry and Ed Lewis performing with the Basie Band

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Emmet Berry and Ed Lewis performing with Basie Band.

Date Published
1931
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Fifteen women meet for a celebration

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An unidentified group of fifteen African American women sit and stand around one end of a banquet table with a tablecloth at an unidentified venue...

Date Published
1929
1931
Member of
Dolores Hobley 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

Greeting card with Clarence Bee and The Five Sharps

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Greeting card with photo featuring Clarence Bee and The Five Sharps. Five musicians are standing with their instruments while looking forward and...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Mclean Family Collection

Group photo in Nurse Hall

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Large group of women (all white) gathered for a party arranged for a group photo in Nurse Hall.

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

Harry Sweets Edison and Snookie Young

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Harry "Sweets" Edison and Snookie Young playing trumpets on stage at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York.

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

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Member of

  • Dolores Hobley Collection (19)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (15)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (14)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (3)
  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (3)
  • Ted Malone Collection (3)
  • Jay McShann Collection (2)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (2)
  • Mclean Family Collection (2)
  • Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection (2)
  • Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection (1)
  • Ed Dix Collection (1)
  • Helen Xarhis-DePasco Collection (1)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (67)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (69)
  • Gelatin silver prints (69)
  • Snapshots (44)
  • Portrait photographs (13)
  • Publicity photographs (4)
  • (-) Group portraits (69)

Time Periods

  • 1931-1940 (54)
  • 1921-1930 (2)
  • 1941-1950 (2)

Subjects

  • African American men (23)
  • African American women (19)
  • Children, White (15)
  • Men, White (15)
  • Jazz musicians (14)
  • Women, White (14)
  • African American jazz musicians (13)
  • Boys (12)
  • Children--Hospital care (12)
  • Hospital patients (12)
  • Girls (8)
  • Nurses (6)
  • Automobiles (5)
  • Trumpet players (5)
  • African American children (4)
  • Big bands (4)
  • Buildings (4)
  • Hospital beds (4)
  • Jazz musicians, White (4)
  • Comedians (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Infants (3)
  • Musicians (3)
  • Physicians (3)
  • Radio personalities (3)
  • Wheelchairs (3)
  • Actors (2)
  • Audiences (2)
  • Bandages and bandaging (2)
  • Brothers and sisters (2)
  • Dance orchestras (2)
  • Dinners and dining (2)
  • Fraternal organizations (2)
  • Fur garments (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Piano (2)
  • Toddlers (2)
  • Toys (2)
  • Trees (2)
  • Tricycles (2)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • African American comedians (1)
  • African American fraternal organizations (1)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Aquariums (1)
  • Banjoists (1)
  • Banners (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
  • Bicycles (1)
  • Books (1)
  • Bouquets (1)
  • Businesswomen (1)
  • Candy (1)
  • Carriages and carts (1)
  • Children's costumes (1)
  • Children's furniture (1)
  • Cigarette smokers (1)
  • Classrooms (1)
  • Clowns (1)
  • College students (1)
  • Consumer goods (1)
  • Corncobs (1)
  • Corsages (1)
  • Costume (1)
  • Country musicians (1)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (1)
  • Crutches (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Department stores (1)
  • Dining rooms (1)
  • Dollhouses (1)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (1)
  • Dwellings (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Fezzes (1)
  • Grandfathers (1)
  • Greek letter societies (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Handicraft (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Hospital buildings (1)
  • Jazz ensembles (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Laughter (1)
  • Literature--Societies, etc. (1)
  • Lobbies (Rooms) (1)
  • Male singers (1)
  • Masks (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Mother and child (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Musical groups (1)
  • Nursing students (1)
  • Older women (1)
  • Organists (1)
  • Orthopedic braces (1)
  • Physical therapists (1)
  • Playgrounds (1)
  • Playgrounds--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Post horn (1)
  • Radio programs, Musical (1)
  • Rocking horses (1)
  • Roofs (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Science--Study and teaching (1)
  • Septets (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Sun-baths (1)
  • Surgeons (1)
  • Surgical plaster casts (1)
  • Surgical scrub (1)
  • Tap dancers (1)
  • Theaters (1)
  • Twins (1)
  • Ventriloquists (1)
  • Vibraphonists (1)
  • Women's clothing (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (5)
  • Topeka (Kan.) (2)
  • Independence (Kan.) (1)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)
  • San Francisco (Calif.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Davis, Dowdal H. (Dowdal Henry), 1913-1957 (4)
  • Jordan, Orchid, 1910-1995 (3)
  • Malone, Ted, 1908-1989 (3)
  • Edison, Harry, 1915-1999 (2)
  • Young, Snooky (2)
  • Anderson, Eddie, 1905-1977 (1)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (1)
  • Atkins, Cholly (1)
  • Bee, Clarence (1)
  • Bergen, Edgar, 1903-1978 (1)
  • Berry, Emmett (1)
  • Bolling, Jim (1)
  • Bruce, Loretta (1)
  • Cagney, James, 1899-1986 (1)
  • Cantor, Eddie, 1892-1964 (1)
  • Christiansen, Helen (1)
  • Clarke, Mae (1)
  • Coles, Honi, 1911-1992 (1)
  • Crawford, Captain Bob (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)
  • Dunbar, Helen, 1868-1933 (1)
  • Hackett, Bobby (1)
  • Johnson, James P. (James Price), 1894-1955 (1)
  • Kratoska, Herb, 1913-1975 (1)
  • Lewis, Ed, 1909-1985 (1)
  • Markham, Pigmeat (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Osborn, Martha (1)
  • Peete, Virginia (1)
  • Peterson, Lillian (1)
  • Redman, Don (1)
  • Sheffield, Leslie, 1910- (1)
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (1)
  • Taylor, Johnny (Musician) (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)
  • Xarhis, Frank (1)
  • Xarhis, James John, 1924-1992 (1)
  • Xarhis, Jerry John, 1924-1981 (1)

Date Published

  • 1940 (53)
  • 1935 (7)
  • 1929 (3)
  • 1950 (3)
  • (-) 1931 (69)

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