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375th Army Service Forces Band

Image

The 375th Army Service Forces Band (Buck Clayton, seated, far right) posing with all their instruments in New York.

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Budget meeting interrupted by police clown

Image

Eight men in suits sit around conference table. Identified on back as Tom Chenowith, J.V. Lewis, Hayes Richardson, John Maring, Police Clown, L. Perry...

Date Published
1944
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Count Basie and Dave Dexter

Image

Count Basie and Dave Dexter sitting on a table against a wall. Dexter is wearing a light colored suit and handing an envelope to Basie, who is wearing...

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter and Count Basie

Image

Backstage in Hollywood in 1944, Count Basie approves an article written by Dave Dexter, Jr., who has carefully followed the Basie career from 1936...

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Frank Sinatra with Gloria DeHaven

Image

Frank Sinatra on a radio broadcast with Gloria DeHaven. Sinatra and DeHaven are standing in front of a stage curtain. She is singing into an NBC...

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Helen Xarhis in front of a building

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Helen Xarhis standing in front of a multi-story brick building and holding a pair of glasses in her hands. Possibly taken in Independence, Missouri.

Date Published
1944
Member of
Helen Xarhis-DePasco Collection

Helen Xarhis laughing

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Close up of Helen Xarhis laughing outdoors in front of a building. Possibly taken in Independence, Missouri.

Date Published
1944
Member of
Helen Xarhis-DePasco Collection

Jay McShann playing piano

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Jay McShann playing piano in a recording studio in Hollywood, California. The top of the piano is covered with music. McShann is looking forward and...

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Nat King Cole, Helen Humes, Herb Shriner, and Jimmie Lunceford

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Nat King Cole, Helen Humes, Herb Shriner, and Jimmie Lunceford standing around an Armed Forces Radio Service microphone, Cole is wearing a pinstripe...

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Oscar Moore (guitar) and Nat King Cole (piano)

Image

Oscar Moore playing guitar and singing with Nat King Cole. Cole is playing the piano and singing with his eyes closed into a microphone hanging from...

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Peggy Lee and Capitol Jazzmen

Image

Peggy Lee and the Capitol Jazzmen during a Capitol Records recording session. Musicians include Les Robinson playing alto saxophone, Eddie Miller...

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Peggy Lee and Capitol Jazzmen

Image

Peggy Lee and the Capitol Jazzmen during a Capitol Records recording session. Musicians include Les Robinson playing alto saxophone, Eddie Miller...

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Peggy Lee and Capitol Jazzmen

Image

Peggy Lee and the Capitol Jazzmen during a Capitol Records recording session. Musicians include Les Robinson playing alto saxophone, Eddie Miller...

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Publicity photo of Paul Creston

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Publicity photo of Paul Creston seated with hands resting on a chair, wearing dark suit with dark tie.

Date Published
1944
1956
Member of
Paul Creston Collection

Sammy Kaye receiving prize

Image

Sammy Kaye receiving a prize from a Signal Oil executive. Kaye is looking down and smiling while the unidentified executive wearing a pinstripe suit...

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Shirley Cookson outside

Image

Shirley Cookson posing for a photo in front of flowers growing along a path. She has one arm hidden behind her back.

Date Published
1944
Member of
Helen Xarhis-DePasco Collection

Tuberculosis patient on frame in bed

Image

Young white girl with tuberculosis with her spine attached to a frame while lying in a hospital bed. A toy car with dog and elephant is on the window...

Date Published
1944
1945
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection
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  • 1944
  • Snapshots

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (11)
  • Helen Xarhis-DePasco Collection (3)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (1)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (1)
  • Paul Creston Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (17)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (17)
  • Gelatin silver prints (17)
  • Portrait photographs (14)
  • Group portraits (11)
  • Architectural photographs (1)
  • Negatives (1)
  • Publicity photographs (1)
  • (-) Snapshots (17)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (17)
  • 1951-1960 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (6)
  • Jazz musicians (4)
  • Women, White (3)
  • Women jazz singers (3)
  • Actors (2)
  • Buildings (2)
  • Children, White (2)
  • Girls (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (2)
  • Children--Hospital care (1)
  • City managers (1)
  • Clowns (1)
  • Composers (1)
  • Hospital beds (1)
  • Hospital patients (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Medical instruments and apparatus (1)
  • Men, White (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Municipal government (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Toys (1)
  • Tuberculosis--Patients (1)
  • Tuberculosis in children (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Independence (Mo.) (2)
  • Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Lee, Peggy, 1920-2002 (3)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (2)
  • Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 (2)
  • DePasco, Helen Xarhis, 1921-1992 (2)
  • Dexter, Dave (2)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (1)
  • Cookson, Shirley (1)
  • Creston, Paul, 1906-1985 (1)
  • DeHaven, Gloria, 1925-2016 (1)
  • Humes, Helen (1)
  • Kaye, Sammy, 1910-1987 (1)
  • Lunceford, Jimmie (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Moore, Oscar (1)
  • Shriner, Herb, 1918-1970 (1)
  • Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998 (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (1)
  • 1956 (1)
  • (-) 1944 (17)

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