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American soldiers get a visit from a ceramic Dachshund confiscated from the German battlefront

Image

Lt. Jack Bockelman smiles as he lies in a hospital bed at the evacuation hospital in Presque Isle, Maine listening to T/3 George R. Pierson explain...

Date Published
1945
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Andy Russell, Evelyn Gibson, and Jack Bailey

Image

Andy Russell presenting a bouquet of flowers to "Queen for a Day" Evelyn Gibson. Jack Bailey, emcee of the program, stands next to Gibson looking at...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Anita O'Day

Image

Headshot of Anita O'Day in a 3/4 turn looking up. O'Day is holding a finger to her lips and is wearing a white laced blouse.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Anita O'Day

Image

Headshot of Anita O'Day in a 3/4 turn looking up. O'Day is resting her head on one hand and wearing a floral print dress.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Anita O'Day

Image

Publicity photo of Anita O'Day turning forward and singing while holding her hands out to clap. O'Day is wearing a floral print dress.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Eberly with Pat Dexter and two others

Image

Bob Eberly leaning over Pat Dexter, sitting in the center with two unidentified white women at a restaurant dining table. The woman on the left is...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Eberly, Dave Dexter, and Helen O'Connell

Image

Dave Dexter, Bob Eberly, and Helen O'Connell standing behind a microphone. Dexter is handing a record to an unidentified white man on the side. All...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Eberly, Dave Dexter, and Helen O'Connell

Image

Bob Eberly, Dave Dexter, and Helen O'Connell standing shoulder to shoulder and smiling. Dexter is holding a record with the Capitol label and O...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Carole Landis holding a puppy

Image

Carole Landis holding a puppy up to her cheek and smiling widely. She is wearing a light colored sweater and small wristwatch.

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Carolyn Grey and Shorty Sherock

Image

Singer Carolyn Grey sitting on a stool and looking at music while smiling with Shorty Sherock standing behind her playing trumpet. In front is an NBC...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Christmas card of Warren Durrett and his orchestra

Image

Photo of Warren Durrett in a black suit and tie, surrounded by the members of his orchestra (all white) in light colored suits. They are standing on...

Date Published
1945
1949
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Crowd in front of a stage

Image

Crowd in front of a stage at an unidentified location. An unidentified man is standing behind a microphone on stage smiling and raising one hand in...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Danny O'Neil

Image

Danny O'Neil crouching on stage to shake hands with two unidentified white women.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Anita Ellis, Al Jarvis, Red Skelton, and Rod O'Connor on broadcast of "Can You Tie That"

Image

Dave Dexter, Anita Ellis, Al Jarvis, Red Skelton, and Rod O'Connor seated at tables with microphones for a broadcast of "Can You Tie That" KLAC radio...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Nat King Cole, and Al Jarvis seated in a recording studio

Image

Dave Dexter, Nat King Cole, and Al Jarvis, unidentified white man, seated in a recording studio with two other unidentified white men and an...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Doris Day

Image

Angled headshot of Doris Day in a 3/4 turn looking up and to the side while smiling. Day is wearing a dark dress and metallic necklace.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Eddie Dein, Al Jarvis, Dave Dexter, Walter Rubsamen, and Connie Haines

Image

Eddie Dein, Dave Dexter, and Walter Rubsamen standing and looking down at Al Jarvis and Connie Haines seated by KLAC microphones in a recording studio...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Ella Mae Morse and Johnny Mercer

Image

Ella Mae Morse and Johnny Mercer holding hands and embracing as though dancing in front of a patterned curtain. Morse is looking forward and smiling...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Evelyn Knight reading sheet music

Image

Evelyn Knight reading sheet music for "Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet" while leaning against a turntable. Knight is wearing a light colored dress...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Four Noteables performing with the Warren Durrett orchestra

Image

The Four Noteables performing on stage with the Warren Durrett Orchestra. They are comprised of an unidentified white man, Laura Webb, Durrett, and...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Framed photograph of leisure time on a prairie

Image

Framed photograph of a prairie with a few people (white) in Victorian clothing enjoying leisure time on a prairie looking northeast from Arrowhead in...

Date Published
1939
1945
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Frances Wayne featured with Woody Herman and his orchestra

Image

Headshot of Frances Wayne looking up with a slight smile. Wayne is wearing a floral print, embroidered dress.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Frances Wayne featured with Woody Herman and his orchestra

Image

Headshot of Frances Wayne looking to the side and up. Wayne is holding her head with one hand and is wearing a floral print, embroidered dress.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Fred Lowrey and Dorothy Rae

Image

Headshot of Fred Lowrey and Dorothy Rae. Rae is wearing a scarf and wide brimmed hat, leaning forward and embracing Lowrey from behind. Lowrey is...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Group of people with a man holding a baby

Image

Group of unidentified smiling white people, from left to right: woman in short sleeve shirt and long skirt holding something (cigarette?) in her hands...

Date Published
1945
1949
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

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Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (38)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (34)
  • Ted Malone Collection (8)

Types

  • photographs (80)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (80)
  • Gelatin silver prints (79)
  • Group portraits (53)
  • Snapshots (45)
  • Portrait photographs (29)
  • Publicity photographs (28)
  • Christmas cards (1)
  • Greeting cards (1)
  • New Year cards (1)
  • Postcards (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (80)
  • 1931-1940 (1)

Subjects

  • Men, White (53)
  • Jazz singers (32)
  • Jazz musicians (31)
  • Jazz musicians, White (30)
  • Big bands (12)
  • Dwellings (8)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (8)
  • Actresses (7)
  • Airplanes (7)
  • Women singers (6)
  • Automobiles (5)
  • Band directors (5)
  • Flight attendants (5)
  • Hats (5)
  • Soldiers (5)
  • Male singers (4)
  • Bouquets (3)
  • Journalism, Military (3)
  • Microphone (3)
  • Princesses (3)
  • War photography (3)
  • Actors (2)
  • African American men (2)
  • Audiences (2)
  • Composers (2)
  • Conductors (Music) (2)
  • Dinners and dining (2)
  • Entertainers (2)
  • Military hospitals (2)
  • Princes (2)
  • War wounds--Patients (2)
  • African American jazz musicians (1)
  • Airplaines (1)
  • Apartment houses (1)
  • Asian men (1)
  • Beaches (1)
  • Beachgoers (1)
  • Bodies of water (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Card tricks (1)
  • Ceramics (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Cigarette smokers (1)
  • Comedians (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Dachshunds (1)
  • Dogs (1)
  • Forests and forestry (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Helmets (1)
  • Hotels (1)
  • Infants (1)
  • Jazz audiences (1)
  • Kings and rulers (1)
  • Leisure (1)
  • Luggage (1)
  • Military uniforms (1)
  • Mountains (1)
  • Music fans (1)
  • Phonograph turntables (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Pipe smokers (1)
  • Prairies (1)
  • Puppies (1)
  • Queens (1)
  • Radio personalities (1)
  • Radio programs (1)
  • Sailors (1)
  • Sheet music (1)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Sound recordings (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Street signs (1)
  • Sunglasses (1)
  • Teenage boys, White (1)
  • Teenage girls, White (1)
  • Television game show hosts (1)
  • Television programs (1)
  • Tobacco pipes (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • War--Relief of sick and wounded (1)
  • (-) Women, White (80)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Presque Isle (Me.) (3)
  • 8e Arrondissement (Paris, France) (1)
  • Champs-Elysées (Paris, France) (1)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Durrett, Warren (21)
  • Dexter, Dave (7)
  • Webb, Laura (4)
  • Eberly, Bob (3)
  • Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926- (3)
  • Jarvis, Al, 1910-1970 (3)
  • O'Day, Anita (3)
  • Bee, Molly (2)
  • Dexter, Pat (2)
  • Ford, Tennessee Ernie, 1919-1991 (2)
  • Gillette, Leland James (2)
  • Lewis, Monica (2)
  • O'Connell, Helen (2)
  • O'Connor, Pat (Vocalist) (2)
  • Philip, Prince, consort of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1921- (2)
  • Wayne, Frances (2)
  • Bailey, Jack (1)
  • Bockelman, Jack W. (1)
  • Brentari, John (1)
  • Canova, Judy, 1913-1983 (1)
  • Cates, Opie, 1909-1987 (1)
  • Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 (1)
  • Day, Doris, 1924- (1)
  • Dein, Eddie (1)
  • Dennis, Billy E. (1)
  • Edwards, Joan, 1919-1981 (1)
  • Elizabeth, Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain, 1900-2002 (1)
  • Ellis, Anita, 1920- (1)
  • Forrest, Helen (1)
  • George VI, King of Great Britain, 1895-1952 (1)
  • Gibson, Evelyn (Game show contestant) (1)
  • Glaub, John A. (1)
  • Grey, Carolyn, 1922- (1)
  • Haines, Connie, 1921-2008 (1)
  • Herskovitz, Aaron (1)
  • Hutton, Betty (1)
  • Johnson, Lucille (Singer) (1)
  • Kaye, Stubby (1)
  • Kelly, Paula, 1920-1992 (1)
  • Kennedy, Raymond C. (1)
  • Kenton, Stan (1)
  • Knight, Evelyn (1)
  • Koch, Karl, Mrs. (1)
  • Lane, Lillian (1)
  • Lowrey, Fred (1)
  • Malone, Ted, 1908-1989 (1)
  • McCall, Mary Ann (1)
  • Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976 (1)
  • Morse, Ella Mae (1)
  • O'Connor, Rod (1)
  • O'Neil, Danny (1)
  • Pierson, George R. (1)
  • Rae, Dorothy (1)
  • Rosenberg, Goldie (1)
  • Rubsamen, Walter H. (Walter Howard), 1911-1973 (1)
  • Russell, Andy, 1919-1992 (1)
  • Schultz, Irene, (Lieutenant) (1)
  • Sherock, Shorty, 1915-1980 (1)
  • Skelton, Red, 1913-1997 (1)
  • Soo, Long Pin (1)
  • Stafford, Jo (1)
  • Starr, Kay (1)
  • Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977 (1)
  • Van Asdell, Jimmy (1)
  • Wells, Bob (Musician) (1)

Date Published

  • 1949 (27)
  • 1950 (26)
  • 1941 (17)
  • 1939 (1)
  • (-) 1945 (80)

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