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Unidentified officials and military personnel in a parade

Image

Unidentified officials and military personnel walking down the street during a parade in Monrovia. Several men are wearing tuxedoes and top hats. The...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified people at a backyard party

Image

Unidentified people at a backyard party in Liberia. Several women and a man are sitting at a table with drinks. A woman is showing an object to a...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified people dining outdoors

Image

Unidentified people dining outdoors in Liberia. A group of people are sitting at tables overlooking the beach and water. The table on the left is...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified people in front of an Enu-Way Bakery

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Unidentified people walking on a sidewalk in front of an Enu-Way Bakery story in Liberia. Two trucks are driving along the open road.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified people on a sidewalk

Image

Unidentified people walking on a sidewalk along an open street in Liberia with a row of various stores behind them. Everyone is wearing light clothing...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified people on a sidewalk

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Unidentified people walking on a sidewalk along an open street in Liberia with a row of various stores behind them. Everyone is wearing light clothing...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified people on an open street

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Unidentified people on an open street in Liberia. People are sitting at tables in front of buildings and walking across the open dirt road. A car is...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified people on the lawn in front of a house

Image

Unidentified people sitting and walking on the lawn in front of a house along an open road in Liberia. Several people are working with baskets.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified people sitting under umbrellas

Image

Unidentified people sitting under umbrellas on the beach in Liberia. People are sitting on several rugs. The umbrellas are made of ornate cloth.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified people waking on an open dirt road

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Unidentified people waking on an open dirt road in Liberia between buildings. Two men in the middle of the road appear to be carrying firearms.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified people walking along a parade route

Image

Unidentified people walking along a parade route in Monrovia. The men are wearing suits and women are wearing dresses.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified person lying on the ground

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An unidentified person lying on the ground in front of a stone wall around a building, likely in Monrovia.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified white man with a gun in a holster

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An unidentified white man standing in front of a group of young black men in a rural area of Liberia. The man in front is wearing sunglasses and a gun...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified woman and man standing in front of a hut

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An unidentified woman and man standing in front of a thatched roof hut in rural Liberia. The woman is wearing white pants and a head wrap, and is...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified woman bending down

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An unidentified woman bending down in front of a tree on a lawn in Liberia. A truck is driving on the road behind the tree.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified woman between two unidentified men and a small dog

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An unidentified woman standing between two unidentified men and a small dog in Liberia. The woman is smiling and looking forward while men look down...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified woman carrying a basket

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An unidentified woman carrying a basket on her head in Liberia. The woman is walking down a road in front of thatched roof huts.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified woman next to a boy

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An unidentified woman, possibly Orchid Jordan, standing next to a naked boy on a dirt road in Liberia. Another woman is walking behind them. Two...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified woman on the beach

Image

An unidentified woman sitting on the beach in Liberia. She is wearing a light colored dress and pearl necklace and smiling.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified woman standing next to stone mortar

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An unidentified woman in Liberia standing next to a stone mortar with a large pole in her hand. The woman is wearing a patterned dress and head wrap...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified woman walking down an open dirt road

Image

An unidentified woman walking down an open dirt road somewhere in Liberia with a basket on her head. There are two thatched roof huts on the side of...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified woman walking down an open dirt road

Image

An unidentified woman walking down an open dirt road somewhere in Liberia with a basket on her head. There are two thatched roof huts on the side of...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Unidentified woman wearing a military uniform

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An unidentified woman wearing a military uniform and holding a bouquet of flowers. The woman is standing on a pier, looking forward, and smiling.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Uniformed soldiers at a parade

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Uniformed soldiers standing on a street during a parade or event in Monrovia. The soldiers are milling about and people on the sidewalks are watching...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Uniformed soldiers at a parade

Image

Uniformed soldiers standing on the sides of an open street in Monrovia during a parade or event. A group of women in black dresses are walking down...

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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