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"Pee Wee" Hunt and Kenny Sargent

Image

Casa Loma Orchestra band leaders "Pee Wee" Hunt and Kenny Sargent wearing dark suits and smiling. Hunt is standing on the left wearing glasses and...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

"Wingy" Manone and Nappy Lamare

Image

Nappy Lamare playing guitar and "Wingy" Manone playing trumpet in a studio with microphones in the background and foreground. Lamare is looking back...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

"Wingy" Manone's Band

Image

A group photo of "Wingy" Manone's Band in a recording studio. Seated (left to right) are Nappy Lamare, "Wingy" Manone, and Matty Matlock. Standing...

Date Published
1935
1940
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

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

Children at lessons

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Children (all white girls and boys) of varying ages seated at desks in the hospital's classroom reading or doing other work. The white female teacher...

Date Published
1938
1940
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital 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

Image

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

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

Count Basie and his orchestra

Image

Count Basie and his orchestra performing on stage. Basie is standing in front of musicians conducting. Orchestra musicians are seated at music shells...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Count Basie Orchestra members in performance

Image

Count Basie Orchestra members in performance including (left) Buddy Tate, Earle Warren, and Jack Washington playing saxophone; Freddie Green playing...

Date Published
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Count Basie Orchestra members in performance

Image

Count Basie Orchestra members in performance on stage. Musicians shown include Earle Warren, Jack Washington, and Lester Young playing saxophone...

Date Published
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Count Basie playing with Benny Goodman

Image

Angled photo of Count Basie playing piano with Benny Goodman playing clarinet. Goodman is standing over Basie and looking forward. Studio equipment is...

Date Published
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter and Andy Kirk

Image

Dave Dexter, Andy Kirk, and an unidentified man standing together drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. Dexter is wearing a vest and looking forward...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter and Bil Burton at the beach

Image

Bil Burton seated in a sun chair on the beach with Dave Dexter leaning forward on the right. Burton and Dexter are at the beach with an unidentified...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter and Bil Burton on a sun chair

Image

Dave Dexter leaning back with eyes closed wearing a t-shirt and shorts. Dexter is laying back on Bil Burton who is seated on a sun chair and wearing...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter and Maxine Gray

Image

Dave Dexter speaking with Maxine Gray in Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri. Dexter is holding a pencil and pad of paper and turned toward Gray...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Leonard Feather, Benny Carter, and Milt Gabler

Image

Left to right: Dave Dexter, wearing a pinstripe suit; jazz critic, Leonard Feather; Benny Carter, wearing a light suit and talking into a microphone...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Doctor's scrubbing before surgery

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

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Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (38)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (16)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (15)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (12)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (6)
  • Jay McShann Collection (4)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (3)
  • Mclean Family Collection (3)
  • Ted Malone Collection (3)
  • Ed Dix Collection (1)
  • Helen Xarhis-DePasco Collection (1)
  • Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection (1)
  • Walt Bodine Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (101)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (104)
  • Gelatin silver prints (104)
  • Snapshots (62)
  • Portrait photographs (45)
  • Publicity photographs (20)
  • Portraits (1)
  • (-) Group portraits (104)

Time Periods

  • 1931-1940 (88)
  • 1941-1950 (8)
  • 1951-1960 (2)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (32)
  • Jazz musicians (31)
  • African American men (27)
  • Men, White (20)
  • Children, White (16)
  • Women, White (16)
  • African American women (15)
  • Children--Hospital care (13)
  • Hospital patients (13)
  • Boys (11)
  • Pianists (8)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (8)
  • Girls (7)
  • Big bands (6)
  • Jazz musicians, White (6)
  • Nurses (6)
  • Automobiles (5)
  • Trumpet players (5)
  • Buildings (4)
  • City managers (4)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (4)
  • Hospital beds (4)
  • Saxophonists (4)
  • Comedians (3)
  • Dinners and dining (3)
  • Guitarists (3)
  • Musical instruments (3)
  • Musicians (3)
  • Physicians (3)
  • Piano (3)
  • Radio personalities (3)
  • Wheelchairs (3)
  • Actors (2)
  • African American children (2)
  • African American women jazz singers (2)
  • Audiences (2)
  • Bandages and bandaging (2)
  • Brothers and sisters (2)
  • Clarinetists (2)
  • Classrooms (2)
  • Composers (2)
  • Conductors (Music) (2)
  • Dance orchestras (2)
  • Fraternal organizations (2)
  • Fur garments (2)
  • Infants (2)
  • Jazz singers (2)
  • Municipal government (2)
  • Theaters (2)
  • Toys (2)
  • Trees (2)
  • Tricycles (2)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • Advertising--Motion pictures (1)
  • African American comedians (1)
  • African American fraternal organizations (1)
  • Aquariums (1)
  • Band leaders (1)
  • Banjoists (1)
  • Banners (1)
  • Bicycles (1)
  • Books (1)
  • Businessmen (1)
  • Candy (1)
  • Carriages and carts (1)
  • Children's costumes (1)
  • Children's furniture (1)
  • Classrooms--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Clowns (1)
  • College students (1)
  • Corncobs (1)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (1)
  • Crutches (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Dining rooms (1)
  • Dollhouses (1)
  • Double bass (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Dwellings (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Fezzes (1)
  • Grandfathers (1)
  • Handicraft (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Hospital buildings (1)
  • Laughter (1)
  • Literature--Societies, etc. (1)
  • Lobbies (Rooms) (1)
  • Male singers (1)
  • Masks (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Municipal buildings (1)
  • Nursing students (1)
  • Older women (1)
  • Organists (1)
  • Orthopedic braces (1)
  • Physical therapists (1)
  • Playgrounds (1)
  • Playgrounds--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Rocking horses (1)
  • Roofs (1)
  • Science--Study and teaching (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Soldiers (1)
  • Sound recordings (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Students (1)
  • Sun-baths (1)
  • Surgeons (1)
  • Surgical plaster casts (1)
  • Surgical scrub (1)
  • Tap dancers (1)
  • Teachers (1)
  • Toddlers (1)
  • Trombone (1)
  • Twins (1)
  • Vibraphonists (1)
  • Voter registration (1)
  • Women's clothing (1)
  • Women jazz musicians (1)
  • Young men (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (8)
  • New York (N.Y.) (2)
  • Topeka (Kan.) (2)
  • 11th Street (1)
  • 12th Street (1)
  • Grand Avenue (1)
  • Independence (Kan.) (1)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)
  • San Francisco (Calif.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Dexter, Dave (8)
  • Davis, Dowdal H. (Dowdal Henry), 1913-1957 (4)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (3)
  • Malone, Ted, 1908-1989 (3)
  • McShann, Jay (3)
  • Tompkins, Eddie (3)
  • Anderson, Bernard, 1919-1997 (2)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (2)
  • Bowles, Russell, 1907-1991 (2)
  • Brown, Walter, -1956 (2)
  • Crumbley, Elmer, 1908- (2)
  • Edison, Harry, 1915-1999 (2)
  • Johnson, Gus, 1913-2000 (2)
  • Johnson, Pete, 1904-1967 (2)
  • Millinder, Lucky (2)
  • Norris, Al (2)
  • Oliver, Sy (2)
  • Page, Walter (2)
  • Ramey, Gene (2)
  • Smith, Willie, 1910-1967 (2)
  • Warren, Earle (2)
  • Washington, Jack, 1910-1964 (2)
  • Webster, Paul, 1909-1966 (2)
  • Young, Lester, 1909-1959 (2)
  • Young, Snooky (2)
  • Allen, Moses, 1906-1983 (1)
  • Anderson, Eddie, 1905-1977 (1)
  • Anderson, Ivie (1)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (1)
  • Atkins, Cholly (1)
  • Backstrom, Lathrop (1)
  • Bailey, Buster (1)
  • Baird, Taswell (1)
  • Bee, Clarence (1)
  • Beneke, Tex (1)
  • Benny, Jack, 1894-1974 (1)
  • Bruce, Harold (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Bruce, Loretta (1)
  • Buckner, Ted, 1913-1976 (1)
  • Carruthers, Earl (1)
  • Carter, Benny (1)
  • Christiansen, Helen (1)
  • Coles, Honi, 1911-1992 (1)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (1)
  • Courtney, Alan (1)
  • Crawford, Jimmy (1)
  • Davis, Marguerite (of Independence, Kan.) (1)
  • Davis, Wild Bill, 1918-1995 (1)
  • De Lange, Eddie (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)
  • Eckstine, Billy (1)
  • Feather, Leonard, 1914-1994 (1)
  • Fergenson, Harold (1)
  • Gabler, Milt, 1911-2001 (1)
  • Gage, John B. (John Bailey), 1887- (1)
  • Garris, John, 1911-1949 (1)
  • Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 (1)
  • Gould, Bud (1)
  • Gray, Glen, 1906-1963 (1)
  • Gray, Maxine (1)
  • Green, Freddie, 1911-1987 (1)
  • Hackett, Bobby (1)
  • Hall, Joyce C., 1891-1982 (1)
  • Henderson, Fletcher, 1897-1952 (1)
  • Hines, Earl, 1903-1983 (1)
  • Howard, Eugene (1)
  • Howard, Willie, 1886-1949 (1)
  • Hudson, Will (1)
  • Hunt, Pee Wee (1)
  • Jackson, John (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Johnson, James P. (James Price), 1894-1955 (1)
  • Kaye, Sammy, 1910-1987 (1)
  • Kirby, Andy, 1898-1992 (1)
  • Klein, Manny, 1908-1994 (1)
  • Lamare, Nappy (1)
  • Leff, Mark (1)
  • Lunceford, Jimmie (1)
  • Lynch, Theodora (1)
  • Mabane, Bob (1)
  • Manone, Wingy (1)
  • Markham, Pigmeat (1)
  • McLean, Percy Lawrence, 1901-1958 (1)
  • Miller, Glenn, 1904-1944 (1)
  • Minor, Orville (1)
  • Morros, Richard B. (1)
  • Morton, Alfred H. (1)
  • Nolan, Bill (Drummer) (1)
  • Osborn, Martha (1)
  • Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955 (1)
  • Peete, Virginia (1)
  • Peterson, Lillian (1)
  • Redman, Don (1)
  • René, Leon, 1902-1982 (1)
  • Sargent, Kenny (1)
  • Sheffield, Leslie, 1910- (1)
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Taylor, Johnny (Musician) (1)
  • Thomas, Joe, 1909-1986 (1)
  • Tompkins, Tommy Red (1)
  • Tucker, Joe, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Turner, Joe, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Wallichs, Glenn (1)
  • Wilcox, Eddie, 1907-1968 (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)
  • Wilson, Gerald, 1918-2014 (1)
  • Xarhis, Frank (1)
  • Xarhis, James John, 1924-1992 (1)
  • Xarhis, Jerry John, 1924-1981 (1)
  • Young, Trummy (1)

Date Published

  • 1931 (53)
  • 1935 (30)
  • 1959 (3)
  • 1938 (1)
  • 1942 (1)
  • (-) 1940 (104)

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