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14 men on stage, 13 dressed as women

Image

A group of 14 men lined up on stage for a photo; 13 are dressed as women. Actors from the play "Negroid Evolution" that Bettye Miller produced and...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

14 men on stage, 13 dressed as women

Image

A group of 14 men lined up on stage for a photo; 13 are dressed as women. Actors from the play "Negroid Evolution" that Bettye Miller produced and...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

1946 Mercury

Image

An unidentified African American woman with her back to the photographer, reaches her left hand across the hood of a 1946 Mercury Sedan to reach her...

Date Published
1946
1949
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

1946 Mercury

Image

A photograph of a parked 1946 Mercury sedan with the driver's side door open. Two unidentified African American people, a man and a woman, are on the...

Date Published
1946
1949
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Band playing on stage

Image

Unidentified band (trumpet player, two saxophonists, drummer, pianist) playing onstage as part of the play "Negroid Evolution" produced and directed...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Broadcast from inside Carnegie Hall

Image

Carnegie Hall is full of spectators (white men and women) to listen to a broadcast of possible a symphony. A few string players (all white) are...

Date Published
1941
1949
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Buck's French American Band performing

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Members of Buck's French American Band performing on stage in Paris, France.

Date Published
1949
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Busy interior of Lüchow's Restaurant

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The interior of a busy and crowded (white men and women and one boy) Lüchow's Restaurant in New York. The tables are all filled and two waiters are...

Date Published
1941
1949
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Carnegie Hall exterior

Image

Carnegie Hall exterior during the daytime. Carnegie hall Pharmacy is on the corner of 7th Avenue and W. 57th Street. The words, "Music Hall founded by...

Date Published
1941
1949
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

City Manager Broadcasting from Office

Image

L. Perry Cookingham in suit and tie sit behind desk with KMBC microphone doing City Manager broadcast.

Date Published
1949
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Classroom setting at Western Seminary

Image

An African American male instructor wearing a three-piece suit, stands in the center back teaching clerical skills to a class of African American co...

Date Published
1949
1951
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Co-ed group on the grounds of Western Seminary

Image

An large unidentified co-ed group of African American men, women, and children and one white man seated in the center on the ground in the photograph...

Date Published
1929
1949
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Drummer and saxophonist for the play "Negroid Evolution"

Image

Unidentified drummer and saxophonist playing music for the play "Negroid Evolution" produced and directed by Bettye Miller. A third person can...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Eighteen men and a guard stand on the stairs

Image

Eighteen serious men (all white men) stand on a steps of a staircase as a group with one white male guard. One man stands at the base of a statue and...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Empire State Building

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Empire State Building with a few of the buildings that surround it at its bottom floors.

Date Published
1941
1949
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Empire State Building's spire

Image

View of Empire State Building's observation deck, tower, radio tower, and spire.

Date Published
1941
1949
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Family seated on front steps of a house

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Family (all white) seated in rows on the front steps of a brick house. There is one woman in the back row, and in the middle: a woman with a hand on...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Fox Theatres' manager, Frank Ritter

Image

Fox Theatres' manager, Frank Ritter.

Date Published
1941
1949
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Girl standing on the hood of a Pontiac

Image

An unidentified African American man crouches down in front of a parked Pontiac sedan, likely 1949 or 1950. A young African American girl stands on...

Date Published
1949
1951
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Gospel choir on stage

Image

Unidentified Gospel choir members (all women) in white robes singing with unidentified man in dark robes and cap singing in front of them. Part of the...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Group of people with a man holding a baby

Image

Group of unidentified smiling white people, from left to right: woman in short sleeve shirt and long skirt holding something (cigarette?) in her hands...

Date Published
1945
1949
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Group of well-dressed people in front of a house

Image

Group of six unidentified white people, left to right: woman in a dark outfit, holding something in her hands; man in a light suit and tie; another...

Date Published
1945
1949
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Harold Lloyd and friends ride the Steeplechase horses at Steeplechase Park

Image

Two couples (white men and women) each straddle the horses of the Steeplechase Horse Ride at Steeplechase Park in Coney Island, New York. One couple...

Date Published
1941
1949
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Hayden Planetarium inscription

Image

Memorial plaque with an inscription by Charles Hayden at the Hayden Planetarium in the American Museum of Natural History in New York. "It states, "I...

Date Published
1940
1949
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

IBEW - 1949

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The actress Dagmar in floral dress holding a white dog standing next to L. Perry Cookingham.

Date Published
1949
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

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Member of

  • Warren Durrett Collection (45)
  • Ted Malone Collection (35)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (11)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (11)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (8)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (3)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (3)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (1)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (1)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (119)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (119)
  • Group portraits (73)
  • Snapshots (56)
  • Portrait photographs (30)
  • Publicity photographs (8)
  • Architectural photographs (6)
  • Cityscape photographs (4)
  • Promotional photographs (1)
  • (-) Gelatin silver prints (119)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (114)
  • 1931-1940 (2)
  • 1951-1960 (2)
  • 1921-1930 (1)

Subjects

  • Men, White (60)
  • Women, White (47)
  • Jazz musicians (35)
  • Jazz musicians, White (31)
  • African American men (18)
  • Radio personalities (15)
  • African American women (14)
  • Automobiles (14)
  • Journalists (12)
  • Dwellings (11)
  • Jazz singers (11)
  • Journalists--Travel (11)
  • Actors (10)
  • Big bands (9)
  • City managers (9)
  • Children, White (7)
  • Actresses (6)
  • African American jazz musicians (6)
  • Airplanes (6)
  • Amusement parks (6)
  • Band directors (6)
  • Hats (6)
  • Amusement rides (5)
  • Audiences (5)
  • Buildings (5)
  • African American children (4)
  • Flight attendants (4)
  • Girls (4)
  • Hotel restaurants (4)
  • Boys (3)
  • College students (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Guitarists (3)
  • Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) (3)
  • Office buildings (3)
  • Parties (3)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Skyscrapers (3)
  • Soldiers (3)
  • Trumpet players (3)
  • Academic costume (2)
  • Beachgoers (2)
  • Beverages (2)
  • Cotton (2)
  • Drum set (2)
  • Enslaved persons (2)
  • Female impersonators (2)
  • Guitar (2)
  • Mayors (2)
  • Musicians (2)
  • Nuns (2)
  • Pavilions (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Piano (2)
  • Pipe smokers (2)
  • Restaurants (2)
  • Saxophone (2)
  • Steeplechasing (2)
  • Sunglasses (2)
  • Teachers (2)
  • Tobacco pipes (2)
  • Advertising--Motion pictures (1)
  • African American musicians (1)
  • African American women composers (1)
  • Airports (1)
  • Apartment houses (1)
  • Bathing suits (1)
  • Beaches (1)
  • Beaches--Recreational use (1)
  • Bodies of water (1)
  • Brick roads (1)
  • Choirs (Music) (1)
  • Conductors (Music) (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Dinners and dining (1)
  • Diplomats (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Ferris wheels (1)
  • Forests and forestry (1)
  • Hispanic American men (1)
  • Infants (1)
  • Inscriptions--Museums (1)
  • Literature--Societies, etc. (1)
  • Luggage (1)
  • Management (1)
  • Marquees (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Motion picture theaters (1)
  • Mountains (1)
  • Music critics (1)
  • Navies--Officers (1)
  • Parade floats (1)
  • Parades (1)
  • Parks (1)
  • Passports (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Pipe smoking (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Politicians (1)
  • Radio and television towers (1)
  • Radio broadcasting (1)
  • Sailors (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Spires (1)
  • Staircases (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Street photography (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Swimming pools (1)
  • Symphonies (1)
  • Traffic signs and signals (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Waiters (1)
  • Women jazz musicians (1)
  • Women jazz singers (1)
  • Women pianists (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • New York (N.Y.) (13)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (7)
  • Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) (6)
  • Paris (France) (2)
  • 12th Street (1)
  • Gander (N.L.) (1)
  • Netherlands (1)
  • Washington (D.C.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Durrett, Warren (26)
  • Malone, Ted, 1908-1989 (13)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (9)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (3)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (2)
  • Persiany, André (2)
  • Tally, Jo Ann (2)
  • Aubin, Toni (1)
  • Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959 (1)
  • Bishop, Wally, 1906-1986 (1)
  • Blareau, Charlie (1)
  • Caldwell, Happy, 1903-1978 (1)
  • Conrad, Armand (1)
  • Cronkite, Walter (1)
  • Dagmar, 1921-2001 (1)
  • Dodds, Ted (1)
  • Elliott, Carl, 1913-1999 (1)
  • Gautier, Madeleine, 1905- (1)
  • Grayson, Kathryn, 1922-2010 (1)
  • Hadjo, Georges (1)
  • Jackson, Cliff, 1902-1970 (1)
  • Johnson, J. E. (James Edgar) (1)
  • Kemp, William E. (William Ewing), 1889-1968 (1)
  • Kennedy, George (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Lanza, Betty, 1922-1960 (1)
  • Lanza, Mario, 1921-1959 (1)
  • Maye, Marilyn (1)
  • Mezzrow, Mezz, 1899-1972 (1)
  • Ohls, Louis (1)
  • Panassié, Hugues (1)
  • Pepper, Art, 1925-1982 (1)
  • Pochonet, Gerard (1)
  • Ritter, Frank (1)
  • Rothschild, Louis S. (Louis Samuel), 1900-1984 (1)
  • Sasson, J. P. (1)
  • Smith, Richard Averill (1)
  • Stepter, Merrill (1)
  • Villers, Michel de, 1926- (1)
  • Webb, Laura (1)
  • White, A. C., 1891-1961 (1)
  • Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981 (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (37)
  • 1941 (19)
  • 1946 (5)
  • 1951 (4)
  • 1940 (2)
  • 1929 (1)
  • (-) 1949 (119)

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