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Two unidentified soldiers wearing dress uniforms

Image

Two unidentified soldiers wearing dress uniforms and standing in front of a column during a parade in Monrovia. Both the man and woman are looking...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Two unidentified women standing back to back

Image

Two unidentified Liberian women standing back to back on an open road in rural Liberia. The woman on the right has several baskets balanced on her...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Two unidentified women standing on the steps

Image

Two unidentified women in Liberia standing on the steps of a building. The building is covered in shuttered blinds.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Two unidentified women walking down an open road

Image

Two unidentified women walking down an open road in rural Liberia. The road leads to several thatched roof huts. The woman on the left is balancing...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Two unidentified women with a parrot

Image

Two unidentified women with a parrot on a branch near a beach in Liberia. The woman on the left is holding the branch and looking at the woman on the...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Two women and a small boy carrying baskets

Image

Two women and a small boy carrying baskets along a dirt road in rural Liberia. The boy is standing in front of two thatched roof huts.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Two young men in an open field

Image

Two young men identified as Zarr and Henry, the Jordans' cook and steward, standing left to right in an open field in Monrovia. Both men are looking...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Two young men in an open patch of grass

Image

Two young men standing in an open patch of grass, likely in Liberia. The men are looking forward with neutral expressions. There is a grove of trees...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Two young men kneeling on an open field

Image

Two young men kneeling on an open field, likely in Robertsport, Liberia. Both men are wearing dress shirts and are likely tour guides.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unfinished building structure

Image

Side of an unfinished building structure made of wood crossbeams and bricks, likely in Monrovia.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unfinished building structure

Image

An unfinished building structure made of wood crossbeams and bricks, likely in Monrovia.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unfinished building structure

Image

An unfinished building structure made of wood crossbeams and bricks, likely in Monrovia.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified man and woman in a multiple exposure photograph

Image

An unidentified man and woman standing in a multiple exposure photograph in Liberia. Thatched rooves and small buildings are reflected in the...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified man and woman standing between huts

Image

An unidentified man and woman standing between several huts in a rural Liberian village. The man is wearing a patterned fabric cap and white robe. The...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified man grabbing a spare wheel

Image

An unidentified man grabbing the spare wheel attached to the back of a car in a rural area of Liberia. The car is parked in front of a thatched roof...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified man leaning against a car

Image

An unidentified man leaning against a car in Liberia. The man is looking forward and is wearing a wide-brimmed had and light colored dress shirt. He...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified man leaning against a car

Image

An unidentified man leaning against a car in Liberia. The man is looking forward and is wearing a wide-brimmed had and light colored dress shirt. He...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified man standing and addressing a group of women

Image

An unidentified man standing and addressing a group of women sitting around an outdoor dining table, likely in Liberia. The man is wearing a suit and...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified man standing by a barrel

Image

An unidentified man standing by a barrel in front of a thatched roof garage in a rural area of Liberia. The man is wearing sunglasses, holding a...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified man standing by a car

Image

An unidentified man standing next to a car in Liberia. The man is wearing a large striped robe and looking forward.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified man wearing a dark robe

Image

An unidentified man wearing a dark robe and standing next to a corrugated wall, somewhere in Liberia. The man is looking forward with a neutral...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified man, possibly Leon Jordan

Image

An unidentified man, possibly Leon Jordan, standing on a city sidewalk somewhere in Liberia. The awning of a large building is on the left.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified men in the back of a large truck

Image

Unidentified men standing on the back of a large truck as it drives down a road in Liberia. A large cloud of dust or smoke is coming out the back of...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified men in the back of a large truck

Image

Unidentified men standing on the back of a large truck as it drives down a road in Liberia. A large cloud of dust or smoke is coming out the back of...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified men wearing tuxedos and top hats

Image

Unidentified men wearing tuxedos and top hats walking around a courtyard in front of a large white building in Liberia. Other men in military dress...

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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