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Leon Jordan with police trainees

Image

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

Leon Jordan with police trainees

Image

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

Leon Jordan with police trainees

Image

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

Leon Jordan with two unidentified men

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Leon Jordan standing with two unidentified men in front of a building in Liberia. Jordan is wearing a light colored shirt and tie. The other two men...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan, Orchid Jordan, and Hendrik Jordense in front of a car and plane

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Leon Jordan, Orchid Jordan, and Hendrik Jordense standing in front of a car and plane on an airfield, likely James Spriggs Payne Airfield in Monrovia...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan, Orchid Jordan, and Hendrik Jordense in front of a car and plane

Image

Leon Jordan, Orchid Jordan, and Hendrik Jordense standing in front of a car and plane on an airfield, likely James Spriggs Payne Airfield in Monrovia...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

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

Man standing in front of a car

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An unidentified man standing in front of a car in Liberia. The man is wearing a light colored shirt and wide brimmed hat.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Man standing on a dirt airfield

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An unidentified man standing on a dirt airfield, likely James Spriggs Payne Airfield in Monrovia. A single propeller plane is on the other side of the...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Man walking down a street

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An unidentified man walking down a street in Monrovia during a parade. The man is wearing a military uniform. A group of people stand on the end of...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Martha Jane Starr standing in front of tropical foliage

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Martha Jane Starr holding two bags and a jacket in front of some tropical foliage.

Date Published
1947
Member of
Martha Jane Starr Collection

Martha Tilton

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Publicity photo of Martha Tilton leaning on the side of stool and looking back while laughing. Tilton is resting both arms on the stool and is wearing...

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

Members and Guests of the International City Managers Association

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Charles Curran, Ray Moseley, L. Perry Cookingham, Roy Braden, Robert French stand posing for picture in formal wear.

Date Published
1941
1947
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Men in military dress uniforms walking down the street

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Men in military dress uniforms walking down the street during a parade or event in Monrovia. A group of people are standing on the side of the street...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Men working on a dock

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A group of men working with large equipment or shipping materials far away on a dock or other industrial area in Liberia.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Motorboat approaching a pier

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A motorboat approaching a pier to dock, likely in Monrovia. A group of unidentified people are standing on the edge of the boat ready to depart.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

National Safety Award

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L. Perry Cookingham being handed a plaque from the National Safety Council by unidentified man with NSC lapel pin.

Date Published
1947
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

New Sears Store - C.C. Plaza

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L. Perry Cookingham stands behind WHB microphone at opening of new Sears and Roebuck on the Country Club Plaza. General Robert Wood president of Sears...

Date Published
1947
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Newly trained policemen

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A group of newly trained Liberian policemen at a ceremony. The men are standing in an open field wearing formal uniforms.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Nine unidentified people standing on a beach

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Nine unidentified people standing on a beach in Liberia next to a single-sail boat. Several people are carrying goods.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Nine unidentified people standing on a beach

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Nine unidentified people standing on a beach in Liberia next to a single-sail boat. Several people are carrying goods.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Orchid and Leon Jordan with two unidentified people

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Orchid and Leon Jordan standing with two unidentified people in front of a car on an open dirt road in Liberia. Leon is standing in the back on the...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Orchid Jordan and Hendrick Jordense at James Spriggs Payne Airfield

Image

Orchid Jordan and Hendrick Jordense standing in front of a car and plane on an airfield, likely James Spriggs Payne Airfield in Monrovia. Leon Jordan...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Orchid Jordan and Hendrick Jordense with a Jeep

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Orchid Jordan and Hendrick Jordense with a Jeep in an open road in Liberia. Orchid is standing behind the car and looking up while smiling. Hendrick...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Orchid Jordan and Hendrik Jordense at James Spriggs Payne Airfield

Image

Orchid Jordan and Hendrik Jordense standing in front of a car and plane on an airfield, likely James Spriggs Payne Airfield in Monrovia. Leon Jordan...

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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