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"Grandpa" + Janices baby

Image

L. Perry Cookingham in striped shirt sitting on blue couch in front of floral drapes with unidentified baby.

Date Published
1949
1959
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham 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

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

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

Image

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

Image

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

Christmas card of Warren Durrett and his orchestra

Image

Photo of Warren Durrett in a black suit and tie, surrounded by the members of his orchestra (all white) in light colored suits. They are standing on...

Date Published
1945
1949
Member of
Warren Durrett 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

Dr. Dwyer + The Thrashers

Image

Dr. Dwyer and Mr. and Mrs. Thrasher sitting on patio furniture at the Cookingham's house.

Date Published
1949
1960
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham 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

Edith Darby, Harriette, + Harry Darby KU - MU game

Image

Edith Darby in brown holding fur coat, Harriette W. Cookingham in red, and Harry Darby in suit and tie standing by bus on tree lined suburban street.

Date Published
1949
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Edward Grody's - Littletown N.H.

Image

Edward Grady in black button up and his wife in floral dress pose at unknown location.

Date Published
1949
1960
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham 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

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

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

H + P boarding Plane in Phoenix for Las Vagas

Image

L. Perry Cookingham in suit and tie holding sticker clad luggage stands at the bottom of a staired hatch of a airplane with Harriette W. Cookingham...

Date Published
1949
1959
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham 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

Harriette + Katie Stevenson

Image

Harriette W. Cookingham in black dress with white lace top sits on green couch looking at stereoscopes with Katie Stevenson who wears a bronze dress...

Date Published
1949
1960
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Harriette W. Cookingham, unidentified man

Image

Harriette W. Cookingham in hat and dark jacket talking to unidentified suited man in red and black striped room.

Date Published
1949
1960
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Herb + Rozine Wilson - Pres Emory, Bird + Thayer

Image

Rozine Wilson in white Western style outfit and Herb Wilson in dark western outfit stand in front of fireplace in The Saddle and Sirloin Club.

Date Published
1949
1960
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham 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 (29)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (25)
  • Ted Malone Collection (22)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (11)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (3)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (3)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (94)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (74)
  • Gelatin silver prints (73)
  • Snapshots (37)
  • Portrait photographs (26)
  • Color photographs (20)
  • Film transparencies (20)
  • Stereographs (20)
  • Publicity photographs (4)
  • Christmas cards (1)
  • Greeting cards (1)
  • New Year cards (1)
  • (-) Group portraits (94)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (89)
  • 1951-1960 (19)
  • 1921-1930 (1)
  • 1931-1940 (1)
  • 1961-1970 (1)

Subjects

  • Men, White (55)
  • Women, White (38)
  • Jazz musicians (28)
  • Jazz musicians, White (25)
  • African American men (15)
  • Radio personalities (15)
  • Journalists (12)
  • Journalists--Travel (11)
  • African American women (10)
  • Big bands (10)
  • Actors (9)
  • Jazz singers (8)
  • Band directors (7)
  • Actresses (6)
  • Automobiles (6)
  • Dwellings (6)
  • Special events (6)
  • African American jazz musicians (5)
  • Airplanes (5)
  • Audiences (5)
  • Children, White (5)
  • City managers (5)
  • Flight attendants (5)
  • Parties (5)
  • African American children (3)
  • Amusement parks (3)
  • Amusement rides (3)
  • Beverages (3)
  • Clubs (3)
  • College students (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Girls (3)
  • Guitarists (3)
  • Restaurants (3)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Soldiers (3)
  • Trumpet players (3)
  • Academic costume (2)
  • Airplaines (2)
  • Buildings (2)
  • Cotton (2)
  • Dinners and dining (2)
  • Drum set (2)
  • Enslaved persons (2)
  • Female impersonators (2)
  • Guitar (2)
  • Hats (2)
  • Infants (2)
  • Mayors (2)
  • Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) (2)
  • Musicians (2)
  • Nuns (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Piano (2)
  • Saxophone (2)
  • Sunglasses (2)
  • Teachers (2)
  • African American musicians (1)
  • Airports (1)
  • Apartment houses (1)
  • Beaches (1)
  • Beachgoers (1)
  • Bodies of water (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Brick roads (1)
  • Choirs (Music) (1)
  • Conductors (Music) (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Diplomats (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Fireplaces (1)
  • Forests and forestry (1)
  • Literature--Societies, etc. (1)
  • Luggage (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Music critics (1)
  • Navies--Officers (1)
  • Parade floats (1)
  • Parades (1)
  • Parks (1)
  • Passports (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Pipe smokers (1)
  • Sailors (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Staircases (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Steeplechasing (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Symphonies (1)
  • Tobacco pipes (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Waiters (1)
  • Women jazz singers (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (5)
  • Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) (3)
  • New York (N.Y.) (3)
  • Paris (France) (2)
  • Gander (N.L.) (1)
  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (1)
  • Netherlands (1)

Subjects, People

  • Durrett, Warren (22)
  • Malone, Ted, 1908-1989 (13)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (7)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (5)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (3)
  • Kemp, William E. (William Ewing), 1889-1968 (2)
  • Persiany, André (2)
  • Aubin, Toni (1)
  • Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959 (1)
  • Bishop, Wally, 1906-1986 (1)
  • Blareau, Charlie (1)
  • Bowersock, Justin D. (Justin DeWitt), 1871-1955 (1)
  • Brady, Leo F. (1)
  • Caldwell, Happy, 1903-1978 (1)
  • Conrad, Armand (1)
  • Cronkite, Walter (1)
  • Dagmar, 1921-2001 (1)
  • Dwyer, Hugh L. (1)
  • Gautier, Madeleine, 1905- (1)
  • Grady, Edward (1)
  • Grayson, Kathryn, 1922-2010 (1)
  • Greenlease, Virginia P., 1909-2001 (1)
  • Hadjo, Georges (1)
  • Hartenbower, Dorothy (1)
  • Jackson, Cliff, 1902-1970 (1)
  • Johnson, J. E. (James Edgar) (1)
  • Kay, Merle (1)
  • Kennedy, George (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Kresge, Stanley Sebastian, 1900- (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)
  • Rothschild, Louis S. (Louis Samuel), 1900-1984 (1)
  • Sasson, J. P. (1)
  • Stepter, Merrill (1)
  • Villers, Michel de, 1926- (1)
  • White, A. C., 1891-1961 (1)
  • Wilson, Herbert H. (1)
  • Wilson, Rozine (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (23)
  • 1960 (14)
  • 1941 (6)
  • 1951 (2)
  • 1959 (2)
  • 1929 (1)
  • 1964 (1)
  • (-) 1949 (94)

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