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Advertising print featuring Armando Ghitalla

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Advertising print featuring Armando Ghitalla holding a trumpet. Ghitalla is wearing a black tuxedo and looking forward. Advertising text in the top...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Mclean Family Collection

Advertising print featuring William Vacchiano

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Advertising print featuring William Vacchiano with trumpets. Vacchiano is standing on the right holding one trumpet under his arm. Three trumpets are...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Mclean Family Collection

Benny Goodman and Lawrence McLean

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Benny Goodman with Lawrence McLean in an office or studio. Goodman is holding a clarinet while looking forward. McLean is standing on the left. Both...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Mclean Family Collection

Benny Goodman and Lawrence McLean

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Benny Goodman and Lawrence McLean with two unidentified men in an office or studio. Goodman is playing a clarinet while looking forward. McLean is...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Mclean Family Collection

Benny Goodman with Lawrence McLean

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Benny Goodman with Lawrence McLean in an office or studio. Goodman is holding a clarinet while looking forward. McLean is standing on the left. Both...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Mclean Family Collection

Blurry photo of an outdoor event

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Blurry photo of an outdoor event. Musicians are on the left (double bass is visible, along with what appears to be a trumpet), and a shirtless African...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Display case advertising a Philharmonic Connoisseur Concert

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Display case advertising a Philharmonic Connoisseur Concert featuring William Dawson (composer of the Negro Folk Symphony), January 29, 8:30pm, at...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Brian Thurn Collection

Lawrence McLean with an unidentified group of men

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Lawrence McLean sitting with an unidentified group of men. They are in a room with curtains over a window in back. The men are smiling and laughing...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Mclean Family Collection

Lawrence McLean with an unidentified group of men

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Lawrence McLean sitting with an unidentified group of men. They are in a room with curtains over a window in back. The men are smiling and laughing...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Mclean Family Collection

Lawrence McLean with other musicians and businessmen

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Lawrence McLean with other musicians and businessmen at a restaurant. Standing in back from left to right: Phil Civella, Jack Fay, and Billy Maxted...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Mclean Family Collection

Lawrence McLean with the Affiliated Musicians Service

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Lawrence McLean with unidentified members of the Affiliated Musicians Service. They are standing in an office with newsletters stacked on a desk...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Mclean Family Collection

Musicians playing on a stage

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Musicians playing on a stage with striped curtains. From left to right: an unidentified man playing trumpet, Fidalis Wilart playing bass saxophone, an...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Mclean Family Collection

Philip Dorn conducting

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Philip Dorn in a 3/4 turn looking toward camera while conducting an orchestra of unidentified white musicians in front of him.

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Tex Beneke and Cliff Poole

Image

Tex Beneke and Cliff Poole standing in front of a white wall. They are wearing suits and smiling at each other. They are also holding cigarettes in...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Mclean Family Collection

Tex Beneke and Jig Adams

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Tex Beneke and Jig Adams standing in front of a white wall. They are wearing suits and smiling while holding lighters to light each others' cigarettes...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Mclean Family Collection

Texas Rangers eight-member group portrait

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The Texas Rangers eight-member (all white men) group portrait with instruments. All wearing matching dark toned suits, white cowboy hats, and dark...

Date Published
1931
1950
Member of
Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection

Texas Rangers five-member group portrait

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Promotional portrait of The Texas Rangers. Five members, facing forward, smiling, holding instruments. Four stand in the back behind the accordion...

Date Published
1931
1950
Member of
Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection

Texas Rangers five-member group portrait

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Promotional portrait of The Texas Rangers, Bob Crawford in the center. Five members, facing forward, smiling, holding instruments, and standing on...

Date Published
1931
1950
Member of
Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection

Texas Rangers five-member group portrait

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The Texas Rangers five-member portrait with instruments. All wearing matching white hats, four wearing matching plaid button up shirts with one...

Date Published
1931
1950
Member of
Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection

Texas Rangers four member landscape promotional photo

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The Texas Rangers portrait. Four men in white, button-up, long sleeve shirts and dark pants with white stripe down side holding instruments. Left to...

Date Published
1931
1950
Member of
Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection

Texas Rangers four member portrait promotional photo

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The Texas Rangers portrait. Four men in white, button-up, long sleeve shirts and dark pants with white stripe down side holding instruments. Clockwise...

Date Published
1931
1950
Member of
Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection

Texas Rangers in-studio promotional photo

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Promotional photo of The Texas Rangers performing in studio. Eight members in semi-circle around "KMBC" microphone. Four in back playing instruments...

Date Published
1931
1950
Member of
Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection

Texas Rangers on television studio set

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Eight Texas Rangers around table on television studio set. Set on right of photo. Four men seated on benches at round table. Four men standing with...

Date Published
1931
1950
Member of
Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection

Three men in front of an instrument display

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Three men identified as Ivan Kay, G. Selmer, and Hank Bennett standing in front of an instrument display. All three are wearing suits and patterned...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Mclean Family Collection

Unidentified man

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Publicity photo of unidentified man.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Brian Thurn Collection
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  • 1950
  • Musicians

Member of

  • Mclean Family Collection (13)
  • Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection (8)
  • Brian Thurn Collection (2)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (1)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (12)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (25)
  • Gelatin silver prints (25)
  • Portrait photographs (15)
  • Group portraits (12)
  • Publicity photographs (4)
  • Snapshots (2)
  • Reproductions (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (25)
  • 1931-1940 (8)

Subjects

  • Businessmen (8)
  • Country musicians (8)
  • Musical groups (8)
  • Radio programs, Musical (8)
  • Clarinetists (3)
  • Men, White (3)
  • Trumpet players (3)
  • African American men (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • Conductors (Music) (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Orchestra (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Special events (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • (-) Musicians (25)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Chicago (Ill.) (4)

Subjects, People

  • McLean, Percy Lawrence, 1901-1958 (7)
  • Crawford, Captain Bob (5)
  • Kratoska, Herb, 1913-1975 (4)
  • Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 (3)
  • Beneke, Tex (2)
  • Cool, Gomer (2)
  • Hartman, Clarence, 1890-1969 (2)
  • Sells, Paul (2)
  • Adams, Jig (1)
  • Dawson, William L. (William Levi), 1886-1970 (1)
  • Dorn, Philip, 1905-1975 (1)
  • Ghitalla, Armando (1)
  • McLean, Minnie (1)
  • Poole, Cliff (1)
  • Vacchiano, William (1)
  • Wilart, Fidalis (1)
  • Wilart, Vincent (1)

Date Published

  • 1941 (16)
  • 1931 (8)
  • 1945 (1)
  • (-) 1950 (25)

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