Skip to main content

UMKC University Libraries logoUMKC University LibrariesDigital Collections

UMKC University Libraries

UMKC University Libraries

  • Collections
  • About

Breadcrumb

  1. Home
  2. Search Results

Search Results

1 - 25 of 61 items

Andy Russell and Eileen Barton

Image

Andy Russell and Eileen Barton standing in front of a stage curtain. Russell is holding a microphone and looking forward with a loving expression...

Date Published
1945
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster in "The Killers"

Image

Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster celebrated completion of their starring roles in Mark Hellinger's production of Hemingway's "The Killers" with a day at...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster in "The Killers"

Image

The atomic glow in the western sky isn't from Bikini. It's coming from Hollywood where Ava Gardner has been making love to Burt Lancaster in Mark...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Barry Ulanov

Image

Barry Ulanov standing next to an unidentified woman. Both are looking forward and smiling. Ulanov is wearing a light colored suit jacket and striped...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bill Stegmeyer and unidentified musicians

Image

Bill Stegmeyer sitting on a chair and playing clarinet with other unidentified studio musicians holding flutes. Stegmeyer is looking down at a music...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong

Image

Billie Holiday straightening a tie for Louis Armstrong in a publicity photo shoot in Hollywood, California. Armstrong is holding a trumpet in his...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Blue Book models holding records

Image

Six Blue Book models posing with records for grand opening of Freddy Martin's Ambassador Music Shop located in Los Angeles, California.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Wilber and Sidney Bechet

Image

Bob Wilber playing clarinet and Sidney Bechet playing soprano saxophone. Both are holding up their instruments as they play.

Date Published
1946
1947
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Charles "Cootie" Williams

Image

Charles "Cootie" Williams playing trumpet on stage into a microphone in front of an unidentified musician. Williams is wearing a light colored suit...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Clark Cookingham walks on sidewalk with Harriette W. Cookingham

Image

Clark Cookingham wearing overcoat and sweater with a D on it walks on sidewalk with Harriette W. Cookingham who wears a Leopard fur lined coat.

Date Published
1942
1946
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Curly Howard and Louis Jordan in "Swing Parade of 1946"

Image

Curly Howard sitting and playing saxophone while looking dubiously at Louis Jordan who is smiling and approaching Howard with two fingers pointed out...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dan Duryea and June Vincent

Image

Dan Duryea and June Vincent posing for a publicity shot for the film "Black Angel." Vincent is kneeling in front of Duryea, embracing him.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dan Duryea with his sons Peter and Richard

Image

Dan Duryea is sitting on the right with his sons, Peter and Richard, on his lap. Hugh McCormick is sitting on the left holding a ventriloquist dummy...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, John Hammond, Count Basie, and Sonny Burke

Image

In Hollywood, in 1946, Count Basie smokes his pipe and enjoys the company of his supporters Dave Dexter, Jr., the writer and record producer; John...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Nat King Cole, and Al Jarvis

Image

Dave Dexter, Nat King Cole, and Al Jarvis on a broadcast of "Can You Tie That" KLAC radio program in Los Angeles, California. Dexter and Cole are...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Della Norell, Lila Seaman, Bullets Durgom, and Andy Russell

Image

Della Norell, Lila Seaman, Bullets Durgom, and Andy Russell sitting at a dining table surrounded by unidentified patrons at the Copacabana in New York...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dorothy Babb and Johnny Coy

Image

Dorothy Babb sitting on a luggage rack carried by Johnny Coy in promotional photo for "Ladies' Man." Babb and Coy are smiling and looking slightly to...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dorothy Morris and Beverly "Bugnose" Simmons

Image

Dorothy Morris and Beverly "Bugnose" Simmons holding hands and standing against a tree in costume for the film "Little Miss Big." Both are wearing a...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dr. Perry being honored with a plaque

Image

Dr. John Edward Perry, wearing a long jacket and pinstripe pants stands with his right side to the photographer on the left side of the photograph on...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Duke Ellington and Dave Dexter

Image

Dave Dexter and Duke Ellington sitting at a table with KLAC microphones before a broadcast of "Can You Tie That." Dexter is leaning forward and...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Ella Mae Morse, Johnny Mercer, and Lina Romay

Image

Left to right: Ella Mae Morse, Johnny Mercer, and Lina Romay, stand with arms wrapped around each other in front of a floral curtain. Mercer is...

Date Published
1945
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Elsa Maxwell at reception

Image

Members of the Yakama tribe who appeared in the Technicolor film “Canyon Passage” holding a reception for Elsa Maxwell and others, presenting her with...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

First Family Entrains for Canada

Image

Harry S. Truman standing with Bess Truman and Margaret Truman on the balcony of a train car in Washington, D.C., during Truman's Presidential train...

Date Published
1946
1950
Member of
Richard W. Bolling Collection

Frank Sinatra

Image

Frank Sinatra speaking with an unidentified man. Sinatra is holding his chin with one hand and closing his eyes. Sinatra is wearing a pinstripe suit.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Gene Norman, Dave Dexter, John Hammond, and Count Basie

Image

Gene Norman, Dave Dexter, and John Hammond standing behind a piano and leaning forward. Count Basie is seated at the piano facing outward and smiling.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Pagination

  • Current page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Next page ›
  • Last page Last »
  • Clear selected
  • 1946
  • Group portraits

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (43)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (7)
  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (3)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (3)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (3)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (1)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (61)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (61)
  • Gelatin silver prints (61)
  • Portrait photographs (50)
  • Snapshots (38)
  • Publicity photographs (17)
  • Film stills (4)
  • (-) Group portraits (61)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (61)

Subjects

  • Actors (14)
  • Jazz musicians (14)
  • African American jazz musicians (13)
  • Actresses (10)
  • Men, White (9)
  • Pianists (8)
  • Women, White (7)
  • City managers (6)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (6)
  • Jazz singers (5)
  • Armed Forces--Officers (4)
  • Composers (4)
  • Comedians (3)
  • Jazz musicians, White (3)
  • Politicians (3)
  • Women jazz singers (3)
  • African American men (2)
  • African American women (2)
  • Big bands (2)
  • Clarinetists (2)
  • Conductors (Music) (2)
  • Dinners and dining (2)
  • Male singers (2)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Women singers (2)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Bouquets (1)
  • Coats (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Ethnic costume (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Lyricists (1)
  • Mayors (1)
  • Models (Persons) (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Motion picture producers and directors (1)
  • Municipal government (1)
  • Music critics (1)
  • Native American men (1)
  • Physicians (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Racism in popular culture (1)
  • Radio talk show hosts (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Sound recordings (1)
  • Yakama Indians (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) (3)
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (3)
  • Washington (D.C.) (3)
  • Estes Park (Colo.) (2)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (2)
  • Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation (1)
  • New York (N.Y.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (6)
  • Dexter, Dave (5)
  • Jordan, Louis, 1908-1975 (5)
  • Rubenstein, Artur, 1887-1982 (4)
  • Scharf, Walter, 1910-2003 (4)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (3)
  • Costello, Lou (3)
  • Jordan, Leon M. (Leon Mercer), 1905-1970 (3)
  • Truman, Bess Wallace (3)
  • Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 (3)
  • Truman, Margaret, 1924-2008 (3)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (2)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (2)
  • Dane, Patricia, 1919-1995 (2)
  • De Carlo, Yvonne (2)
  • Dorsey, Tommy, 1905-1956 (2)
  • Durrett, Warren (2)
  • Duryea, Dan, 1907-1968 (2)
  • Gardner, Ava, 1922-1990 (2)
  • Hammond, John, 1910-1987 (2)
  • Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 (2)
  • Kemp, William E. (William Ewing), 1889-1968 (2)
  • Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994 (2)
  • Norman, Gene (2)
  • Russell, Andy, 1919-1992 (2)
  • Ryan, Peggy, 1924-2004 (2)
  • Starr, Kay (2)
  • Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1883-1953 (2)
  • Babb, Dorothy, 1927-1998 (1)
  • Barker, Jess (1)
  • Barker, Jim, 1921- (1)
  • Barton, Eileen (1)
  • Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959 (1)
  • Bennett, Joan, 1910-1990 (1)
  • Bunn, Jimmy (1)
  • Burke, Sonny, 1914-1980 (1)
  • Burnette, Smiley, 1911-1967 (1)
  • Charlie, Job (1)
  • Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 (1)
  • Como, Perry, 1912-2001 (1)
  • Cookingham, Clark G. (1)
  • Coy, Johnny (1)
  • Davis, Ilus W., 1917-1996 (1)
  • Dexter, Pat (1)
  • Durgom, George (1)
  • Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 (1)
  • Flynn, Ed (1)
  • Gay, Ruth Anne (1)
  • Grable, Betty, 1916-1973 (1)
  • Halsey, William F. (William Frederick), 1882-1959 (1)
  • Howard, Curly Joe, 1910-1993 (1)
  • James, Harry, 1916-1983 (1)
  • Jarvis, Al, 1910-1970 (1)
  • Jordan, Orchid, 1910-1995 (1)
  • Lamare, Nappy (1)
  • Lear, Ben, 1979-1966 (1)
  • Lee, Peggy, 1920-2002 (1)
  • Looney, Jim (Yakama tribe member) (1)
  • Lyons, Jimmy (1)
  • Maxwell, Elsa (1)
  • McCormick, Hugh (Ventriloquist) (1)
  • Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976 (1)
  • Morris, Dorothy, 1922-2011 (1)
  • Morse, Ella Mae (1)
  • Norell, Della (1)
  • Perry, John Edward, 1870-1962 (1)
  • Rando, Doc (1)
  • Redmond, Joseph K., 1913-1996 (1)
  • Riggs, Tommy (1)
  • Romay, Lina (1)
  • Seaman, Lila (1)
  • Shaffer, Lloyd (1)
  • Simmons, Beverly, 1938- (1)
  • Simms, Ginny (1)
  • Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998 (1)
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (1)
  • Stegmeyer, Bill, 1916-1968 (1)
  • Sullivan, Joe, 1906-1971 (1)
  • Thompson, Henry (Yakama tribe member) (1)
  • Turner, Jim (Yakama tribe member) (1)
  • Ulanov, Barry (1)
  • Vincent, June (1)
  • Walker, Helen, 1921-1968 (1)
  • Wanger, Walter, 1894-1968 (1)
  • Warren, Harry, 1893-1981 (1)
  • Wilber, Bob (1)
  • Willard, Bill (1)
  • Williams, Cootie (1)
  • Yallup, Thomas (1)
  • Yallup, William (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (6)
  • 1941 (3)
  • 1950 (3)
  • 1942 (1)
  • 1943 (1)
  • 1947 (1)
  • (-) 1946 (61)

Related Departments

Digital Projects

Digitized and described primary sources from UMKC Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives.

LaBudde Special Collections

Print archives and research center serving scholars and organizations from around the world.

Marr Sound Archives

Over 400,000 items with a focus on the American experience as reflected in recorded sound.

University Archives

Records, catalogs, and publications from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

  • Contact Us   |  Terms of Use   |  Acknowledgments   | UMKC Libraries   |  Hosted by University of Missouri Library Systems   |  Copyright ©2025