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Six unidentified men carrying a large canoe

Image

Six unidentified men carrying a large canoe on the beach towards water in Liberia. The canoe has intricate painting along the side.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Six unidentified men in front of a hut

Image

Six unidentified men standing in front of a thatched roof hut in rural Liberia. All the men are looking forward with neutral expressions. The man on...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Six unidentified people standing around a child

Image

Six unidentified people standing around a small child in Liberia. One woman is holding another child in her arms. Both children are naked. The other...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Soldiers eating with a group of women

Image

An unidentified group of African American women and uniformed African American men and one uniformed white man socializing at one long banquet table...

Date Published
1941
1947
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Soldiers in military dress uniforms

Image

A group of soldiers in military dress uniforms standing on a street in Monrovia. The men are looking forward with neutral expressions.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Soldiers marching in formation down a street

Image

Soldiers marching in formation down a street during a parade in Monrovia. The soldiers are led by a man who is turning to the right. A group of people...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Soldiers marching in formation down a street

Image

Soldiers marching in formation down a street during a parade in Monrovia. The soldiers are led by men wearing military dress uniforms. Children are...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Soldiers walking down the street

Image

Soldiers walking down the street in Liberia. The men are walking in front of a large house and wearing uniforms.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Soldiers walking down the street

Image

Soldiers walking down the street in Liberia. The men are walking in front of a large house and wearing uniforms.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Soldiers walking down the street during a parade

Image

Soldiers walking down the street during a parade in Monrovia. The soldiers are walking next to a parade float that appears to be a boat. Several men...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Statue of a cow

Image

Statue of a cow or water buffalo on a pedestal in front of a house in Liberia.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Statue of a hippopotamus

Image

Statue of a hippopotamus on a pedestal in front of a large house in Liberia.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Statue of a spotted cat

Image

Statue of a spotted cat on the railing of a house in Liberia.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Statue of an elephant

Image

Statue of an elephant on a pedestal in front of a large house in Liberia.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Statue of an elephant

Image

Statue of an elephant on a pedestal in front of a large house in Liberia.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Three children and a woman on a pier

Image

Three children standing in front of a woman, possibly Orchid Jordan, on a pier in Liberia. A dog is running around the group and a group of uniformed...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Three men at an outdoor dining table

Image

Three men at an outdoor dining table in Liberia. Two men are sitting and talking while the third is getting ready to sit down. A large palm tree and...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Three men in an open dirt road

Image

Three 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

Three unidentified men in front of a single propeller plane

Image

Three unidentified men standing in front of a single propeller plane at James Spriggs Payne Airfield in Monrovia. The men are wearing aviator hats and...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Three unidentified men kneeling under a plane

Image

Three unidentified men kneeling under the wing of a plane at James Spriggs Payne Airfield in Monrovia. The man on the left may be Leon Jordan.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Three unidentified men working

Image

Three unidentified men working in an open field in Monrovia. The man in front is sitting and looking down. Two of the men are holding shovels. A...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Three unidentified people in a field

Image

Three unidentified people in a field in Liberia. One man is holding a package on his head. A woman is holding her baby on her back with a wrap.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Three unidentified people next to a large statue

Image

Three unidentified people standing next to a large metal cat statue, likely in Monrovia. The man and woman in front are looking forward with a neutral...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Three unidentified people walking down a dirt road

Image

Three unidentified people walking down a dirt road in Liberia. All three are facing away from the camera. Large trees line both sides of the road.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Three unidentified people walking down a dirt road

Image

Three unidentified people walking down a dirt road in Liberia. All three are facing away from the camera. Large trees line both sides of the road.

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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