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Leon and Orchid Jordan in front of an airplane

Image

Leon and Orchid Jordan standing in front of an airplane on a dirt airfield, likely James Spriggs Payne Airfield in Monrovia. Leon is holding Orchid...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon and Orchid Jordan on large stone steps

Image

Leon and Orchid Jordan sitting on large stone steps, likely in Monrovia. Orchid is wearing a striped dress and small necklace. Leon is wearing a dress...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon and Orchid Jordan on large stone steps

Image

Leon and Orchid Jordan sitting on large stone steps, likely in Monrovia. Orchid is wearing a striped dress and small necklace. Leon is wearing a dress...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon and Orchid Jordan sitting at a table

Image

Leon and Orchid Jordan sitting at a table with an unidentified man. The table is on the patio of an outdoor dining area with an oceanside view, likely...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon and Orchid Jordan with four unidentified people at a party

Image

Leon and Orchid Jordan with four unidentified people at a party or gathering, likely in Monrovia. Leon is sitting second from left. Orchid is resting...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon and Orchid Jordan with three unidentified people at a party

Image

Leon and Orchid Jordan with three unidentified people at a party or gathering, likely in Monrovia. Orchid is standing on the right and Leon is sitting...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan at Robertsport monument

Image

Leon Jordan with an unidentified woman and two men, likely tour guides. They are sitting at a monument for the centennial of the city of Robertsport...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan at Robertsport monument

Image

Leon Jordan with an unidentified woman and two men. They are sitting at a monument for the centennial of the city of Robertsport, Liberia. Jordan is...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan at Robertsport monument

Image

Leon Jordan with an unidentified woman and two men, likely tour guides. They are sitting at a monument for the centennial of the city of Robertsport...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan in an open road

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Leon Jordan standing in an open road somewhere in Liberia. Jordan is wearing a light colored uniform and is smiling while standing in front of a...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan on large stone steps

Image

Leon Jordan sitting on large stone steps, likely in Monrovia. He is wearing a dress shirt with a badge for the Liberian Constabulary Police and is...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan on large stone steps

Image

Leon Jordan sitting on large stone steps, likely in Monrovia. He is wearing a dress shirt with a badge for the Liberian Constabulary Police and is...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan receiving a medal from William Tubman

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Leon Jordan receiving a medal from Liberian president William Tubman. Two men in military uniforms are standing on the right looking at the ceremony...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan standing at a building entrance

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Leon Jordan standing at a building entrance with two unidentified people, likely in Liberia. All three are looking up and smiling. The building...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan standing at a building entrance

Image

Leon Jordan standing at a building entrance with two unidentified people, likely in Liberia. All three are looking up and smiling. The building...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan standing in an open road

Image

Leon Jordan standing in an open road somewhere in Liberia and grimacing. Jordan is wearing a traditional striped robe and head covering.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan standing with an unidentified man

Image

Leon Jordan standing with an unidentified man at an outdoor event likely in Monrovia. Both men are wearing suit jackets and holding classes. They are...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan standing with an unidentified man

Image

Leon Jordan standing with an unidentified man at an outdoor event likely in Monrovia. Both men are wearing suit jackets and holding classes. They are...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan standing with five unidentified men

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Leon Jordan standing with five unidentified men in a grassy field, somewhere in Liberia. All the men are wearing white shirts and looking forward...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan with an unidentified man

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Leon Jordan standing with an unidentified man in Liberia. Jordan is standing on the left. Both men are wearing safari hats and are looking forward and...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan with an unidentified man

Image

Leon Jordan standing with an unidentified man on the front step of the Jordans' house in Monrovia. Jordan is standing on the right and the other man...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan with Charlie #6

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Leon Jordan with a man identified as Charlie #6 standing outside a building in Liberia. Jordan is standing on the right and looking at Charlie while...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan with four unidentified men at a ceremony

Image

Leon Jordan with four unidentified men at a ceremony in Monrovia. Jordan is standing in front of a table where the other men are sitting. Jordan and...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan with Liberian president William Tubman

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Leon Jordan standing with Liberian president William Tubman and three unidentified officials at a ceremony in Monrovia. Tubman is standing second from...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan with police trainees

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Leon Jordan with eleven police trainees. Jordan is standing sixth from left. All the men are wearing light colored uniforms and standing in front of a...

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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