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1946 Mercury

Image

An unidentified African American woman with her back to the photographer, reaches her left hand across the hood of a 1946 Mercury Sedan to reach her...

Date Published
1946
1949
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

1946 Mercury

Image

A photograph of a parked 1946 Mercury sedan with the driver's side door open. Two unidentified African American people, a man and a woman, are on the...

Date Published
1946
1949
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

375th Army Service Forces band

Image

Group portrait of the 375th Army Service Band; Camp Shanks, New York. Band personnel (H. Jackson, percussionist; T. Waters, L. Faulk, D. Taylor, A...

Date Published
1943
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Allan Reuss with guitar

Image

Allan Reuss playing guitar in a recording studio. Reuss is sitting on a stool and resting the guitar on his lap while looking forward and smiling.

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

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

Angela Greene in costume for "Night and Day"

Image

Publicity photo from above of Angela Greene in costume for her role in the film "Night and Day." Greene is wearing a bikini top and ruffled skirt...

Date Published
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

Ava Gardner in "The Killers"

Image

Ava Gardner, that long-limbed and lovely lass from the South who is getting her best acting opportunity to date in Mark Hellinger's production of "The...

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

Beatrice Kay

Image

Headshot of Beatrice Kay in a 3/4 turn, looking forward with a neutral expression. Kay is wearing a black lace dress and large pendant necklace.

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

Beverly Simmons and Napoleon

Image

Publicity photo of child actor Beverly Simmons with a dog named Napoleon. Simmons is laying on the back of Napoleon, looking forward and smiling.

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

Billy Butterfield playing trumpet in studio

Image

Billy Butterfield wearing a striped t-shirt and playing trumpet into a Capitol Records microphone hanging from the ceiling of a recording studio.

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

Billy Butterfield reading music and holding trumpet

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Billy Butterfield looking down to read some music in a studio while holding his trumpet. Behind Butterfield are music stands and a Capitol Records...

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

Blue Book models holding records

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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

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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

Buck Clayton and others

Image

Buck Clayton on stage playing trumpet with an unidentified bass player in New York.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton and Rex Stewart in the green room

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Buck Clayton and Rex Stewart; New York.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton Benny Morton and others

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Buck Clayton, trumpet with: Benny Morton, Jack Butler, Mezz Mezzrow, Max Kaminsky, Eddie Barefield, Cliff Jackson with microphone and the man seated...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton with Illinois Jacquet and others

Image

Illinois Jacquet, Trummy Young and Buck Clayton performing in a row, on stage in New York.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Burt Lancaster in "The Killers"

Image

"The Big Fight, one of the news photographers' favorite subjects, as seen in Mark Hellinger's production of "The Killers," is incidental to the...

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

Cass Daley publicity photo cleaning table

Image

Elbow grease is applied vigorously to an antique table by Cass Daley, Paramount's singing comedienne, soon to be seen in "Ladies' Man" co-starred with...

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

Cass Daley publicity photo in kitchen

Image

Cass Daley, one of the co-stars of Paramount's "Ladies' Man" headed by Eddie Bracken, takes a crack at a new recipe in her San Fernando Valley home...

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

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Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (95)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (27)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (9)
  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (5)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (5)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (4)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (3)
  • Brian Thurn Collection (2)
  • Ed Dix Collection (2)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (2)
  • Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection (1)
  • Lucile Bluford Collection (1)

Types

  • (-) photographs (156)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (150)
  • Gelatin silver prints (150)
  • Portrait photographs (108)
  • Group portraits (83)
  • Snapshots (82)
  • Publicity photographs (50)
  • Film stills (8)
  • Drawings (5)
  • Architectural photographs (2)
  • Cityscape photographs (2)
  • Chromogenic print (1)
  • Color photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (129)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (48)
  • African American jazz musicians (39)
  • Actresses (30)
  • Men, White (20)
  • Actors (19)
  • Trumpet players (18)
  • Jazz musicians, White (16)
  • African American men (14)
  • Pianists (14)
  • Saxophonists (12)
  • Trombonists (11)
  • Women, White (11)
  • Double bassists (10)
  • Women jazz singers (9)
  • African American women (8)
  • City managers (7)
  • Clarinetists (7)
  • Jazz singers (7)
  • Women singers (7)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (6)
  • Animated films (5)
  • Automobiles (5)
  • Composers (5)
  • Conductors (Music) (5)
  • Armed Forces--Officers (4)
  • Comedians (4)
  • African American women jazz singers (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Politicians (3)
  • African American women dancers (2)
  • African American women singers (2)
  • Big bands (2)
  • Buildings (2)
  • Dinners and dining (2)
  • Male singers (2)
  • Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) (2)
  • Musicians (2)
  • Radio broadcasters (2)
  • Advertising--Motion pictures (1)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Bathing suits (1)
  • Bouquets (1)
  • Boxers (Sports) (1)
  • Boxing (1)
  • Child actors (1)
  • Coats (1)
  • Country musicians (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Dogs (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Ethnic costume (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Jazz ensembles (1)
  • Lyricists (1)
  • Marquees (1)
  • Mayors (1)
  • Models (Persons) (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Motion picture producers and directors (1)
  • Municipal government (1)
  • Musical groups (1)
  • Music critics (1)
  • Music in the army (1)
  • Native American men (1)
  • Physicians (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Racism in popular culture (1)
  • Radio programs, Musical (1)
  • Radio talk show hosts (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Soldiers (1)
  • Sound recordings (1)
  • Sunglasses (1)
  • Teenage boys, White (1)
  • Theaters (1)
  • Trombone (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Women country musicians (1)
  • Yakama Indians (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • New York (N.Y.) (4)
  • Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) (3)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (3)
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (3)
  • Washington (D.C.) (3)
  • Estes Park (Colo.) (2)
  • 12th Street (1)
  • Camp Shanks (N.Y.) (1)
  • Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation (1)
  • Grand Avenue (1)

Subjects, People

  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (10)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (7)
  • Young, Trummy (7)
  • Daley, Cass (6)
  • Jacquet, Illinois (6)
  • Dexter, Dave (5)
  • Jordan, Louis, 1908-1975 (5)
  • Rubenstein, Artur, 1887-1982 (4)
  • Scharf, Walter, 1910-2003 (4)
  • Shore, Dinah, 1917-1994 (4)
  • Taylor, Myra (4)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (3)
  • Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959 (3)
  • Butler, Jack, 1909- (3)
  • Christy, June, 1925-1990 (3)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (3)
  • Costello, Lou (3)
  • Eldridge, Roy, 1911-1989 (3)
  • Gardner, Ava, 1922-1990 (3)
  • Hawkins, Coleman (3)
  • Jordan, Leon M. (Leon Mercer), 1905-1970 (3)
  • Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994 (3)
  • McLeod, Catherine, 1921-1997 (3)
  • Mezzrow, Mezz, 1899-1972 (3)
  • Stewart, Rex, 1907-1967 (3)
  • Truman, Bess Wallace (3)
  • Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 (3)
  • Truman, Margaret, 1924-2008 (3)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (2)
  • Butterfield, Billy, 1917-1988 (2)
  • Clayton, Patricia (2)
  • Dane, Patricia, 1919-1995 (2)
  • De Carlo, Yvonne (2)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (2)
  • Dorn, Philip, 1905-1975 (2)
  • Dorsey, Tommy, 1905-1956 (2)
  • Durrett, Warren (2)
  • Duryea, Dan, 1907-1968 (2)
  • Garner, Erroll (2)
  • Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 (2)
  • Hammond, John, 1910-1987 (2)
  • Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 (2)
  • Kemp, William E. (William Ewing), 1889-1968 (2)
  • Kersey, Kenny, 1916-1983 (2)
  • Lee, Peggy, 1920-2002 (2)
  • Norman, Gene (2)
  • Russell, Andy, 1919-1992 (2)
  • Ryan, Peggy, 1924-2004 (2)
  • Simmons, Beverly, 1938- (2)
  • Stafford, Jo (2)
  • Starr, Kay (2)
  • Tally, Jo Ann (2)
  • Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1883-1953 (2)
  • Williams, Cootie (2)
  • Abravanel, Maurice, 1903-1993 (1)
  • Alphin, Patricia, 1926- (1)
  • Babb, Dorothy, 1927-1998 (1)
  • Barefield, Eddie, 1909-1991 (1)
  • Barker, Jess (1)
  • Barker, Jim, 1921- (1)
  • Barton, Eileen (1)
  • Bennett, Joan, 1910-1990 (1)
  • Bluford, Lucile H. (1)
  • Blyth, Ann, 1928- (1)
  • Buckner, Milt (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)
  • De Paris, Wilbur (1)
  • Dexter, Pat (1)
  • Durgom, George (1)
  • Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 (1)
  • Flynn, Ed (1)
  • Gay, Ruth Anne (1)
  • Grable, Betty, 1916-1973 (1)
  • Greene, Angela, 1920-1978 (1)
  • Halsey, William F. (William Frederick), 1882-1959 (1)
  • Hart, Maurice, 1909-1978 (1)
  • Herman, Woody, 1913-1987 (1)
  • Howard, Curly Joe, 1910-1993 (1)
  • Humes, Helen (1)
  • Jackson, Cliff, 1902-1970 (1)
  • James, Harry, 1916-1983 (1)
  • Jarvis, Al, 1910-1970 (1)
  • Jones, Jonah, 1909-2000 (1)
  • Jordan, Orchid, 1910-1995 (1)
  • Kaminsky, Max, 1908-1994 (1)
  • Kay, Beatrice (1)
  • Kyser, Kay (1)
  • Lamare, Nappy (1)
  • Lear, Ben, 1979-1966 (1)
  • Looney, Jim (Yakama tribe member) (1)
  • Lyons, Jimmy (1)
  • Maxwell, Elsa (1)
  • McCormick, Hugh (Ventriloquist) (1)
  • McHargue, Rosy, 1902-1999 (1)
  • Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976 (1)
  • Morris, Dorothy, 1922-2011 (1)
  • Morse, Ella Mae (1)
  • Morton, Benny (1)
  • Norell, Della (1)
  • O'Brien, Edmond, 1915-1985 (1)
  • Otis, Hal (1)
  • Parker, Eleanor, 1922-2013 (1)
  • Perry, John Edward, 1870-1962 (1)
  • Rando, Doc (1)
  • Redmond, Joseph K., 1913-1996 (1)
  • Reuss, Allan (1)
  • Riggs, Tommy (1)
  • Romay, Lina (1)
  • Romberg, Sigmund, 1887-1951 (1)
  • Rushton, Joe (1)
  • San Juan, Olga, 1927-2009 (1)
  • Seaman, Lila (1)
  • Shaffer, Lloyd (1)
  • Shawlee, Joan (1)
  • Simms, Ginny (1)
  • Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998 (1)
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (1)
  • Small, Mary (Vocalist) (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)
  • Vickers, Martha, 1925-1971 (1)
  • Vincent, June (1)
  • Walker, Helen, 1921-1968 (1)
  • Wanger, Walter, 1894-1968 (1)
  • Warren, Harry, 1893-1981 (1)
  • Whiting, Margaret (1)
  • Wilber, Bob (1)
  • Willard, Bill (1)
  • Yallup, Thomas (1)
  • Yallup, William (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (6)
  • 1949 (5)
  • 1950 (4)
  • 1941 (3)
  • 1943 (2)
  • 1947 (2)
  • 1942 (1)
  • (-) 1946 (156)

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