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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

"Stuff" Smith

Image

Publicity photo of "Stuff" Smith holding a violin under one arm and looking forward while smiling. Smith is wearing a black tuxedo and bowtie.

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

1940 Chevy Sudan

Image

1940 Chevy Sedan parked at unknown location.

Date Published
1940
Member of
Lucile Bluford Collection

Abe Lyman

Image

Headshot of Abe Lyman looking to the side and smiling. Lyman is wearing a white suit jacket and tie.

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

Anson Weeks

Image

Publicity photo of Anson Weeks from the side. Weeks is standing with one leg raised and leaning forward while resting one hand on his knee. Weeks is...

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

Artie Shaw

Image

Artie Shaw photographed from the side sitting at a desk and using a typewriter. Shaw is looking down at the typewriter and holding his hands over the...

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

Ben Pollack

Image

Headshot of Ben Pollack looking to the side and smiling. Pollack is wearing a black suit jacket and patterned tie.

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

Benny Meroff

Image

Headshot of Benny Meroff turning forward and looking to the side while smiling. Meroff is wearing a light colored suit and dark tie.

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

Benny Meroff caricature

Image

Illustration of Benny Meroff conducting. Meroff is holding a conducting baton in one hand and pointing up with the other. The illustration is an...

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

Image

Publicity photo from the side of Bobby Hackett playing trumpet. Hackett is wearing a suit and tie. A photo caption reads: Glen Gray and the Casa Loma...

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

Bobby Hackett

Image

Headshot of Bobby Hackett looking to the side with a neutral expression while a holding trumpet. Hackett is wearing a tuxedo and bowtie. The photo...

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

Boyce Brown playing saxophone

Image

Boyce Brown looking down while seated and playing saxophone during a performance or rehearsal. Brown is wearing a dark jacket, vest, and tie. An...

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

Cab Calloway

Image

Close-up headshot of Cab Calloway.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Brian Thurn Collection

Cab Calloway smiling

Image

Headshot of Cab Calloway smiling with a wide, open mouth and looking up.

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

Charles "Cootie" Williams

Image

Charles "Cootie" Williams photographed from the side playing trumpet in front of an unidentified musician. Williams is holding a mute in the trumpet...

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

Charlie McCarthy

Image

Charlie McCarthy (ventriloquist dummy) standing in a doorway, holding a cane in one hand.

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

Charlotte Miller

Image

A photograph of Charlotte Miller (illegible) sitting with a three-ring binder on her lap and a feather pen in her right hand. She sits in a garden...

Date Published
1940
Member of
Ted Malone 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

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Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (130)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (32)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (28)
  • Ted Malone Collection (21)
  • Brian Thurn Collection (6)
  • Jay McShann Collection (4)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (4)
  • Don Tiff Collection (2)
  • Lucile Bluford Collection (1)
  • Martha Jane Starr Collection (1)
  • Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (225)
  • posters (2)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (224)
  • Gelatin silver prints (224)
  • Portrait photographs (162)
  • Publicity photographs (101)
  • Snapshots (77)
  • Group portraits (70)
  • Architectural photographs (10)
  • Concert posters (2)
  • Drawings (2)
  • Lithographs (2)
  • Posters (2)
  • Caricatures (1)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)
  • Photomechanical prints (1)

Time Periods

  • 1931-1940 (218)
  • 1941-1950 (21)
  • 1951-1960 (2)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (64)
  • African American jazz musicians (48)
  • Men, White (41)
  • Conductors (Music) (22)
  • Women, White (22)
  • Pianists (18)
  • Children, White (16)
  • Saxophonists (15)
  • Children--Hospital care (14)
  • Hospital patients (14)
  • Jazz musicians, White (14)
  • Trumpet players (14)
  • African American men (11)
  • Boys (10)
  • Dwellings (10)
  • Nurses (10)
  • Radio personalities (10)
  • Buildings (9)
  • City managers (9)
  • Furniture (9)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (9)
  • Women jazz singers (9)
  • Girls (8)
  • Hospital buildings (8)
  • Composers (7)
  • Actors (5)
  • Actresses (5)
  • Neckties (5)
  • Nursing students (5)
  • Snow (5)
  • Cats (4)
  • Clarinetists (4)
  • Hospital beds (4)
  • Male singers (4)
  • Piano (4)
  • Signs and signboards (4)
  • Trees (4)
  • Trombonists (4)
  • Violinists (4)
  • Authors, American--Homes and haunts (3)
  • Big bands (3)
  • Coats (3)
  • Dinners and dining (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Hats (3)
  • Hospital administrators (3)
  • Hospitals (3)
  • Living rooms (3)
  • Municipal government (3)
  • Musical instruments (3)
  • Pets (3)
  • Physicians (3)
  • Wheelchairs (3)
  • Women singers (3)
  • African American children (2)
  • African American women jazz singers (2)
  • Bandages and bandaging (2)
  • Band leaders (2)
  • Boards of directors (2)
  • Businessmen (2)
  • Classrooms (2)
  • Dining rooms (2)
  • Double bassists (2)
  • Entertainers (2)
  • Fireplaces (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Infants (2)
  • Jazz singers (2)
  • Printing plants (2)
  • Publishers and publishing (2)
  • Roofs (2)
  • Streets (2)
  • Theaters (2)
  • Toddlers (2)
  • Toys (2)
  • Tricycles (2)
  • Women figure skaters (2)
  • Advertising--Motion pictures (1)
  • African American fraternal organizations (1)
  • African American singers (1)
  • African American women (1)
  • Air pilots (1)
  • Antique and classic cars (1)
  • Aquariums (1)
  • Armed Forces--Headquarters (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Authors (1)
  • Authors, American (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Banners (1)
  • Battlefields (1)
  • Beaches (1)
  • Books (1)
  • Bow ties (1)
  • Cable structures (1)
  • Candy (1)
  • Carriages and carts (1)
  • Children's furniture (1)
  • Christmas decorations (1)
  • Christmas trees (1)
  • Classrooms--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Cleft palate (1)
  • Cleft palate children (1)
  • Climbing plants (1)
  • Comedians (1)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (1)
  • Dogs (1)
  • Dollhouses (1)
  • Double bass (1)
  • Drinking cups (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Eyeglasses (1)
  • Fences (1)
  • Fezzes (1)
  • Founding Fathers of the United States (1)
  • Fur garments (1)
  • Handicraft (1)
  • Hospitals--Employees (1)
  • Household linens--Storage (1)
  • Hydrotherapy (1)
  • Inscriptions--Museums (1)
  • Lobbies (Rooms) (1)
  • Log cabins (1)
  • McCarthy, Charlie (Fictitious character) (1)
  • Memorials in art (1)
  • Men's clothing (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Military hospitals, American (1)
  • Mineral waters--Therapeutic use (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Motorcycles (1)
  • Municipal buildings (1)
  • Notebooks (1)
  • Older women (1)
  • Orthopedic braces (1)
  • Orthopedic traction (1)
  • Orthopedic traction--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Parties (1)
  • Physical therapists (1)
  • Physicians' spouses (1)
  • Pipe smoking (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Playgrounds (1)
  • Playgrounds--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Presidents--Inauguration (1)
  • Rabbits (1)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (1)
  • Rocking horses (1)
  • Science--Study and teaching (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Sound recordings (1)
  • Statesmen (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Storage cabinets (1)
  • Street photography (1)
  • Students (1)
  • Stuffed animals (Toys) (1)
  • Sun-baths (1)
  • Surgeons (1)
  • Surgical plaster casts (1)
  • Surgical scrub (1)
  • Suspension bridges (1)
  • Swimming (1)
  • Tables (1)
  • Taxicabs (1)
  • Teachers (1)
  • Teacups (1)
  • Trolley buses--Wires and wiring (1)
  • Trombone (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Ventriloquism (1)
  • Ventriloquists' dummies (1)
  • Voter registration (1)
  • Women's clothing (1)
  • Writing materials and instruments (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (15)
  • Saginaw (Mich.) (6)
  • New York (N.Y.) (4)
  • East Aurora (N.Y.) (2)
  • Vevay (Ind.) (2)
  • 11th Street (1)
  • 12th Street (1)
  • Brattleboro (Vt.) (1)
  • Cassville (Mo.) (1)
  • Concord (Mass.) (1)
  • Fort Donelson National Battlefield (Tenn.) (1)
  • Frederick (Md.) (1)
  • Grand Avenue (1)
  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (1)
  • San Francisco (Calif.) (1)
  • Skaneateles (N.Y.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Malone, Ted, 1908-1989 (10)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (8)
  • Dexter, Dave (8)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (5)
  • Christiansen, Helen (4)
  • Spanier, Muggsy, 1906-1967 (4)
  • Carmichael, Hoagy, 1899-1981 (3)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (3)
  • Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 (3)
  • McShann, Jay (3)
  • Tompkins, Eddie (3)
  • Warren, Earle (3)
  • Young, Lester, 1909-1959 (3)
  • Anderson, Bernard, 1919-1997 (2)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (2)
  • Beneke, Tex (2)
  • Boswell, Connie, 1907-1976 (2)
  • Bowles, Russell, 1907-1991 (2)
  • Brown, Les, 1912-2001 (2)
  • Brown, Walter, -1956 (2)
  • Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994 (2)
  • Carter, Benny (2)
  • Crumbley, Elmer, 1908- (2)
  • Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 (2)
  • Gray, Glen, 1906-1963 (2)
  • Hackett, Bobby (2)
  • Henderson, Fletcher, 1897-1952 (2)
  • Henie, Sonja, 1912-1969 (2)
  • Hines, Earl, 1903-1983 (2)
  • Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (2)
  • Johnson, Gus, 1913-2000 (2)
  • Johnson, Pete, 1904-1967 (2)
  • Manone, Wingy (2)
  • Masters, Frankie (2)
  • Meroff, Benny, 1901-1973 (2)
  • Norris, Al (2)
  • Oliver, Sy (2)
  • Osborn, Martha (2)
  • Page, Walter (2)
  • Ramey, Gene (2)
  • Sargent, Kenny (2)
  • Smith, Willie, 1910-1967 (2)
  • Tiff, Don, 1910-1998 (2)
  • Ward, Helen, 1916-1998 (2)
  • Washington, Jack, 1910-1964 (2)
  • Webster, Paul, 1909-1966 (2)
  • Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 (1)
  • Allen, Moses, 1906-1983 (1)
  • Anderson, Ivie (1)
  • Backstrom, Lathrop (1)
  • Baird, Taswell (1)
  • Belasco, Leon, 1902-1988 (1)
  • Benny, Jack, 1894-1974 (1)
  • Berigan, Bunny, 1908-1942 (1)
  • Bernadin, Frank (1)
  • Bregmans, Jack (1)
  • Brown, Boyce, 1910-1959 (1)
  • Bruce, Harold (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Bruce, Loretta (1)
  • Brunis, George, 1900-1974 (1)
  • Buckner, Ted, 1913-1976 (1)
  • Bull, Frank (1)
  • Burke, Sammy (1)
  • Busse, Henry, 1894-1955 (1)
  • Butterfield, Billy, 1917-1988 (1)
  • Callender, Red (1)
  • Carmen, Arthur (1)
  • Carney, Harry (1)
  • Carrillo, Leo (1)
  • Carruthers, Earl (1)
  • Chamberlin, Clarence D. (Clarence Duncan), 1893-1976 (1)
  • Coleman, Joe (Musician) (1)
  • Como, Perry, 1912-2001 (1)
  • Courtney, Alan (1)
  • Crawford, Jimmy (1)
  • De Lange, Eddie (1)
  • Dunbar, Helen, 1868-1933 (1)
  • Eckstine, Billy (1)
  • Elman, Ziggy (1)
  • Feather, Leonard, 1914-1994 (1)
  • Fergenson, Harold (1)
  • Gabler, Milt, 1911-2001 (1)
  • Gage, John B. (John Bailey), 1887- (1)
  • Garber, Jan (1)
  • Garrette, Duke (1)
  • Garris, John, 1911-1949 (1)
  • Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 (1)
  • Gordon, George (Administrator) (1)
  • Gottlieb, William P. (1)
  • Gould, Bud (1)
  • Gray, Maxine (1)
  • Green, Freddie, 1911-1987 (1)
  • Hall, Joyce C., 1891-1982 (1)
  • Hamilton, Spike, 1901-1957 (1)
  • Harris, Phil, 1904-1995 (1)
  • Harrison, Jimmy, 1900-1931 (1)
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 (1)
  • Henderson, Horace (1)
  • Heywoood, Eddie, 1915-1989 (1)
  • Howard, Eugene (1)
  • Howard, Willie, 1886-1949 (1)
  • Hudson, Will (1)
  • Hunt, Pee Wee (1)
  • Hutton, Marion (1)
  • Jackson, John (Saxophonist) (1)
  • King, Henry (Conductor) (1)
  • King, Wayne, 1901-1985 (1)
  • Kirby, Andy, 1898-1992 (1)
  • Klein, Manny, 1908-1994 (1)
  • Lamare, Nappy (1)
  • Langford, Frances (1)
  • Leff, Mark (1)
  • Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (1)
  • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 (1)
  • Lunceford, Jimmie (1)
  • Lyman, Abe, 1897-1957 (1)
  • Lynch, Theodora (1)
  • Mabane, Bob (1)
  • Madison, James, 1751-1836 (1)
  • Marlow, Mary (Singer) (1)
  • Marsala, Joe, 1907-1978 (1)
  • Martin, Freddy, 1906-1983 (1)
  • Merman, Ethel (1)
  • Miller, Charlotte (1)
  • Miller, Glenn, 1904-1944 (1)
  • Millinder, Lucky (1)
  • Minor, Orville (1)
  • Morgan, Russ, 1904-1969 (1)
  • Morros, Richard B. (1)
  • Morton, Alfred H. (1)
  • Nolan, Bill (Drummer) (1)
  • Noone, Jimmie, 1895-1944 (1)
  • O'Connell, Helen (1)
  • Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955 (1)
  • Peete, Virginia (1)
  • Peterson, Lillian (1)
  • Pollack, Ben (1)
  • Redman, Don (1)
  • René, Leon, 1902-1982 (1)
  • René, Otis, 1898-1970 (1)
  • Sanders, Joe, 1896-1965 (1)
  • Shaw, Artie, 1910-2004 (1)
  • Sheffield, Leslie, 1910- (1)
  • Shroff, Dale (1)
  • Sidney, Margaret, 1844-1924 (1)
  • Simms, Ginny (1)
  • Smith, Stuff (1)
  • Stacy, Jess, 1904-1995 (1)
  • Starr, John Wilbur, 1905-2000 (1)
  • Stearns, Robert L. (Robert Lawrence), 1892- (1)
  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Taylor, Myra (1)
  • Teagarden, Jack, 1905-1964 (1)
  • Terrell, Pha, 1910-1945 (1)
  • Thomas, Joe, 1909-1986 (1)
  • Tompkins, Tommy Red (1)
  • Tough, Dave (1)
  • Trumbauer, Frank (1)
  • Tucker, Joe, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Turner, Joe, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Waller, Fats, 1904-1943 (1)
  • Wallichs, Glenn (1)
  • Weaver, Margaret (1)
  • Weeks, Anson, 1896-1969 (1)
  • Wesselhoeft, Robert, 1797-1852 (1)
  • Whiteman, Paul, 1890-1967 (1)
  • Wilcox, Eddie, 1907-1968 (1)
  • Wiley, Lee (1)
  • Williams, Cootie (1)
  • Wilson, Dick (1)
  • Wilson, Gerald, 1918-2014 (1)
  • Wilson, Teddy, 1912-1986 (1)
  • Yancey, Jimmy, 1898-1951 (1)
  • Young, Trummy (1)

Date Published

  • 1935 (108)
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  • 1936 (13)
  • 1950 (4)
  • 1941 (2)
  • 1959 (2)
  • 1937 (1)
  • 1938 (1)
  • 1942 (1)
  • 1945 (1)
  • 1949 (1)
  • (-) 1940 (230)

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