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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

Dirt road headed toward rows of houses

Image

A dirt road in Liberia headed toward rows of houses in the distance. The houses are several stories high.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

dirt road through with tire tracks

Image

A dirt road with tire tracks running the length of the road in a rural area of Liberia. The road is surrounded by trees and bushes on both sides.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Ella Mae Morse

Image

Ella Mae Morse behind an NBC microphone with both hands raised, pointing up, while looking to the side and smiling. Morse is wearing a white blouse...

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

Empty folding chairs outside of Antoinette Tubman Stadium

Image

Empty folding chairs outside of Antoinette Tubman Stadium. Several unidentified people are walking across the top of the stadium wall. Unidentified...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Empty street in Monrovia

Image

An empty street in Monrovia with rows of buildings on both sides. An unidentified man and truck are in the background. Several palm trees are on the...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Fighter plane and bomber plane

Image

A fighter plane and bomber plane on an airfield, likely James Spriggs Payne Airfield in Monrovia. The fighter on the left has a star emblem on the...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan 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

Flat-bed truck sinking in the mud

Image

A flat-bed truck sinking in the mud somewhere in Liberia. The abandoned truck has its doors open and is up to its wheels in mud.

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

Four people walking around a plane

Image

Four unidentified people walking around a plane on a sandy field in Liberia. All four are wandering around the area, wearing light colored clothes and...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Four people walking around a plane

Image

Four unidentified people walking around a plane on a sandy field in Liberia. All four are wandering around the area, wearing light colored clothes and...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Four unidentified people laughing and talking

Image

Four unidentified people in Liberia laughing and talking next to a building. A crowd of unidentified people are standing in the street behind them.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

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Member of

  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (298)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (12)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (9)
  • Mclean Family Collection (3)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (2)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (2)
  • Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection (1)
  • Brian Thurn Collection (1)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (1)
  • Martha Jane Starr Collection (1)
  • Walt Bodine Collection (1)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (328)
  • posters (1)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (331)
  • Gelatin silver prints (328)
  • Snapshots (310)
  • Portrait photographs (257)
  • Group portraits (226)
  • Publicity photographs (4)
  • Silver printing-out paper prints (3)
  • Cityscape photographs (2)
  • Film stills (2)
  • Architectural photographs (1)
  • Dance posters (1)
  • Lithographs (1)
  • Portraits (1)
  • Posters (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (329)
  • 1951-1960 (299)
  • 1931-1940 (1)

Subjects

  • Rural conditions (39)
  • Boats and boating (33)
  • Buildings (28)
  • Airplanes (25)
  • Soldiers (21)
  • Parties (19)
  • Parades (17)
  • Beaches (16)
  • Huts (14)
  • Street life (12)
  • Liberians (11)
  • Dwellings (10)
  • Rites and ceremonies (9)
  • Men (8)
  • City managers (7)
  • Crowds (7)
  • Police (7)
  • Streets (7)
  • Statues (6)
  • Thatched buildings (6)
  • African American police (5)
  • Dinners and dining (5)
  • Jazz musicians (5)
  • Tour guides (Persons) (5)
  • Automobiles (4)
  • Men, White (4)
  • Military uniforms (4)
  • Piers (4)
  • Aerial views (3)
  • African American jazz musicians (3)
  • African American women (3)
  • Fire engines (3)
  • Men's clothing (3)
  • Middle-aged men (3)
  • Monuments (3)
  • Sailors (3)
  • Women (3)
  • Women singers (3)
  • African American men (2)
  • Bodies of water (2)
  • Congresses and conventions (2)
  • Cows (2)
  • Customs administration (2)
  • Dancers (2)
  • Folk dancers (2)
  • Mayors (2)
  • Signs and signboards (2)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (2)
  • Stores, Retail (2)
  • Thatched roofs (2)
  • Villages (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Women jazz singers (2)
  • Actresses (1)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Agricultural exhibitions (1)
  • Airports (1)
  • Antiaircraft guns (1)
  • Architecture, Domestic (1)
  • Awards (1)
  • Baskets (1)
  • Beverages (1)
  • Blue collar workers (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Bridges (1)
  • Church buildings (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Clowns (1)
  • Composers (1)
  • Country musicians (1)
  • Dance music (1)
  • Dances (1)
  • Dogs (1)
  • Flags (1)
  • Gardening (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Locomotives (1)
  • Manual work (1)
  • Marquees (1)
  • Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) (1)
  • Musical groups (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Muslims (1)
  • Parrots (1)
  • Pestles (1)
  • Radio programs, Musical (1)
  • Rivers (1)
  • Roads (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Schools (1)
  • Theaters (1)
  • Tropical plants (1)
  • Trucks (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Vai (African people) (1)
  • Warehouses (1)
  • Young adults (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Liberia (150)
  • Monrovia (Liberia) (116)
  • Robertsport (Liberia) (5)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (2)
  • New York (N.Y.) (2)
  • 12th Street (1)
  • 18th and Vine District (1)
  • Boston (Mass.) (1)
  • Fairway (Kan.) (1)
  • Gbarnga (Liberia) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Jordan, Leon M. (Leon Mercer), 1905-1970 (47)
  • Jordan, Orchid, 1910-1995 (42)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (9)
  • Tubman, William V. S., 1895-1971 (6)
  • McLean, Percy Lawrence, 1901-1958 (3)
  • 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)
  • Starr, Kay (2)
  • Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959 (1)
  • Bodine, Walt, 1920- (1)
  • Bowron, Fletcher, 1887-1968 (1)
  • Carson, Jack, 1910-1963 (1)
  • Christy, June, 1925-1990 (1)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (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)
  • Hawkins, Coleman (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)
  • Lane, Judy (Singer) (1)
  • Livingston, Alan W., 1917-2009 (1)
  • Morse, Ella Mae (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)
  • Tilton, Martha (1)
  • Travis, Merle (1)
  • Wilber, Bob (1)
  • Wood, Robert E. (Robert Elkington), 1879-1969 (1)

Date Published

  • 1952 (298)
  • 1941 (3)
  • 1946 (2)
  • 1937 (1)
  • 1943 (1)
  • 1968 (1)
  • (-) 1947 (332)

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