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Albert R. Waters, Miss Missouri, L.P.C. Mo. State Fair

Image

Albert Waters, Miss Missouri (Mary Burke), and L. Perry Cookingham sit on folding chairs in grandstand at Missouri State Fair.

Date Published
1947
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Albert Witchen with two women

Image

Albert Witchen, Vice Consul for American Legation, sitting with two women at an outdoor dining table, possibly at a restaurant or party in Monrovia...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan 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

Bush Devil dancer on an open road

Image

A Bush Devil dancer, symbolic of the materialization of a spirit form as well as the chief's authority for the Vai tribe, on an open road somewhere in...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Bush Devil dancer on an open road

Image

A Bush Devil dancer, symbolic of the materialization of a spirit form as well as the chief's authority for the Vai tribe, on an open road somewhere in...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Couples dancing during a party at American Legation

Image

Couples dancing and people milling about during a party at the American Legation, Hansons House, in Monrovia. Orchid Jordan is dancing with a man...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Crowd of people boarding a large ship

Image

A crowd of people boarding a large ship. Everyone is gathering to walk up a staircase from the pier to the ship. People on the ship are leaning over...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Crowds of people watching girls dancing

Image

Crowds of people watching girls dancing during a parade or event in Monrovia. The girls are wearing white dresses and dancing around maypoles with...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Crowds on a large pier

Image

Crowds walking on a large pier, likely in Monrovia. A large shipping or transport ship is docked at the back of the pier.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Crowds on a large pier

Image

Crowds walking on a large pier, likely in Monrovia. A large shipping or transport ship is docked at the back of the pier.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Crowds on a large pier

Image

Crowds walking on a large pier, likely in Monrovia. A large shipping or transport ship is docked at the back of the pier. Many of the people walking...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Crowds watching a street parade

Image

Crowds watching a street parade for an event in Monrovia. Several uniformed officials are walking down the street with a group of young girls in white...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Dave Dexter and Pat Dexter with Down Beat magazine staff

Image

Dave Dexter and Pat Dexter seated at a dining table with Down Beat magazine staff. Pat Dexter is second from the right and facing forward while...

Date Published
1943
1947
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Five unidentified men in military uniforms

Image

Five unidentified men in military uniforms standing in front of a car on the street in Monrovia. The men are wearing formal dress uniforms and looking...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Five unidentified men on a beach

Image

Five unidentified men on a beach in Liberia in front of large kayaks. The men are wearing swimming shorts and looking forward.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Five unidentified men on a beach

Image

Five unidentified men on a beach in Liberia in front of large canoes. The men are wearing swimming shorts and looking forward.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Five unidentified people on a dirt road

Image

Five unidentified people standing on a dirt road in the middle of a village in rural Liberia. A woman in the center is holding a small child. Everyone...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Five unidentified women on the beach

Image

Five unidentified women on the beach in Liberia. Four women are sitting at a table under an umbrella and playing cards. A fifth woman standing on the...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Five unidentified women standing by trees

Image

Five unidentified women standing in front of trees and bushes in a rural area of Liberia. The woman on the left is holding a small child. All the...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Four men in an open dirt road

Image

Four unidentified men standing in an open dirt road, somewhere in Liberia. The men are wearing floor length robes and head coverings.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Four men in an open dirt road

Image

Four unidentified men standing in an open dirt road, somewhere in Liberia. The men are wearing floor length robes and head coverings.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Four men in an open dirt road

Image

Four unidentified men standing in an open dirt road, somewhere in Liberia. The men are wearing floor length robes and head coverings.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Four men in an open dirt road

Image

Four unidentified men standing in an open dirt road with several houses along the side, somewhere in Liberia. The men are wearing floor length robes...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Four men sitting in chairs

Image

Four unidentified men sitting in chairs in the backyard of a house, likely in Monrovia. Two of the men are partially out of the photo. One man is...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Four men wearing uniforms on a pier

Image

Four unidentified men wearing uniforms and standing on a pier, likely in Monrovia. The man second from left, possibly Leon Jordan, is holding a small...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

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Member of

  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (207)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (8)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (7)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (1)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (1)
  • Martha Jane Starr Collection (1)
  • Walt Bodine Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (226)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (226)
  • Gelatin silver prints (226)
  • Snapshots (214)
  • Portrait photographs (213)
  • Film stills (2)
  • Portraits (1)
  • (-) Group portraits (226)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (225)
  • 1951-1960 (208)
  • 1931-1940 (1)

Subjects

  • Rural conditions (33)
  • Boats and boating (22)
  • Soldiers (20)
  • Parties (19)
  • Parades (17)
  • Beaches (16)
  • Airplanes (15)
  • Street life (11)
  • Huts (10)
  • Liberians (9)
  • Rites and ceremonies (9)
  • Police (7)
  • City managers (6)
  • Men (6)
  • Buildings (5)
  • Dinners and dining (5)
  • Tour guides (Persons) (5)
  • Crowds (4)
  • Men, White (4)
  • Military uniforms (4)
  • African American women (3)
  • Dwellings (3)
  • Fire engines (3)
  • Jazz musicians (3)
  • Monuments (3)
  • Sailors (3)
  • Thatched buildings (3)
  • Women (3)
  • African American jazz musicians (2)
  • African American police (2)
  • Automobiles (2)
  • Congresses and conventions (2)
  • Cows (2)
  • Customs administration (2)
  • Folk dancers (2)
  • Mayors (2)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (2)
  • Stores, Retail (2)
  • Streets (2)
  • Villages (2)
  • African American men (1)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Agricultural exhibitions (1)
  • Architecture, Domestic (1)
  • Baskets (1)
  • Beverages (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Church buildings (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Clowns (1)
  • Composers (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Dogs (1)
  • Locomotives (1)
  • Manual work (1)
  • Parrots (1)
  • Piers (1)
  • Roads (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Schools (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Tropical plants (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • Young adults (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Liberia (106)
  • Monrovia (Liberia) (81)
  • Robertsport (Liberia) (5)
  • 12th Street (1)
  • Boston (Mass.) (1)
  • Gbarnga (Liberia) (1)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Jordan, Leon M. (Leon Mercer), 1905-1970 (42)
  • Jordan, Orchid, 1910-1995 (29)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (8)
  • Tubman, William V. S., 1895-1971 (6)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (2)
  • Callender, Red (2)
  • Dexter, Dave (2)
  • Dudley, Edward R., 1911-2005 (2)
  • Scott, Bud, 1890-1949 (2)
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (2)
  • Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959 (1)
  • Bodine, Walt, 1920- (1)
  • Bowron, Fletcher, 1887-1968 (1)
  • Carson, Jack, 1910-1963 (1)
  • Conkling, James B. (James Brewster), 1915-1998 (1)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (1)
  • Dexter, Pat (1)
  • Forrest, Helen (1)
  • Gillette, Leland James (1)
  • Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960 (1)
  • Haymes, Dick (1)
  • Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 (1)
  • Jenkins, Gordon (1)
  • Joffee, Katherine Redman, 1912-1999 (1)
  • Kelly, Edward J., 1876-1950 (1)
  • Kemp, William E. (William Ewing), 1889-1968 (1)
  • La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947 (1)
  • Laird, Mary Minor (1)
  • Livingston, Alan W., 1917-2009 (1)
  • Mosley, Earl L., 1883-1966 (1)
  • Nichols, Jesse Clyde (1)
  • Ory, Kid, 1886-1973 (1)
  • Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979 (1)
  • Simpson, Jeanne (1)
  • Starr, Martha Jane, 1906-2011 (1)
  • Travis, Merle (1)
  • Wilber, Bob (1)
  • Wood, Robert E. (Robert Elkington), 1879-1969 (1)

Date Published

  • 1952 (207)
  • 1941 (3)
  • 1937 (1)
  • 1943 (1)
  • 1946 (1)
  • (-) 1947 (226)

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