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Bettye Miller signing a copy of her album

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Bettye Miller autographing her LP while holding against the shoulder of an unidentified white man. Five other unidentified white men are line up...

Date Published
1956
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller Trio posing for a photo with their album

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Members of the Bettye Miller Trio (Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and Terry Basso) behind the desk of an unidentified white man posing for a photo with...

Date Published
1956
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller Trio receiving a copy of their album

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Members of the Bettye Miller Trio (Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and Terry Basso) behind the desk of an unidentified white man receiving their album "A...

Date Published
1956
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Terry Basso, and Milt Abel with large group

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Betty Miller with Terry Basso and Milt Abel posing for a picture with a large group of other performers. One group is wearing black and white striped...

Date Published
1956
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Billy Lee Riley

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Billy Lee Riley, rockabilly singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, turns his head to the left and rests his chin on the curled fingers of his right...

Date Published
1956
1960
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Billy Lee Riley and the Original Little Green Men

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Billy Lee Riley and the Original Little Green Men, a rockabilly band comprised of four white men, grin as they sit, stand or crouch in a corner. One...

Date Published
1956
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Coleman Hawkins and Buck Clayton performing at the Newport Jazz Festival

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Coleman Hawkins, playing his saxophone with smiling eyes toward the trombonist next to him (only the trombone is visible) and Buck Clayton playing his...

Date Published
1956
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Damon and unidentified man driving "Sound Bug" in Kansas City parade

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Vic Damon (right) and unidentified man driving the "Sound Bug," a novelty car with sound system advertising Damon Recording Studios; street scene...

Date Published
1952
1956
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Damon Transcribing Facilities on the job

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Crowd gathered around representatives of Damon Transcription Laboratory, who are doing a live remote recording from Union Station, Kansas City.

Date Published
1941
1956
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Dave Dexter with Mr. And Mrs. Bill Morris in Rio

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Dave Dexter, standing on the left holding a travel bag, with Mr. And Mrs. Bill Morris, from EMI Records, in Rio de Janeiro. The tail end of a plane is...

Date Published
1956
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

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Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in a promotional shot for the film "Pardners".

Date Published
1956
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Elmer C. Rhoden and Joseph Redmond

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Elmer C. Rhoden, playing banjo, and Joseph Redmond.

Date Published
1951
1956
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Fine broadcasting studios available for your recordings

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Recording/broadcasting studio with piano and microphone at Damon Transcribing Facilities.

Date Published
1941
1956
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Hugh O'Brian, John Lupton, and Clint Walker in cowboy costumes

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Hugh O'Brian (left), star of the television show "Wyatt Earp", John Lupton (center), star of the television show "Broken Arrow", and Clint Walker...

Date Published
1956
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Jazz pianist, possibly Hank Jones

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Hank Jones looking down at lead sheets on piano.

Date Published
1956
1959
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

L. Perry Cookingham seated in chair

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L. Perry Cookingham seated in chair.

Date Published
1956
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Postcard for the Warren Durrett Orchestra with Marilyn Mayes

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Promotional postcard. On left, headshot of Marilyn Maye with text below: "Marilyn Mayes [sic] - vocals." On right, headshot of Warren Durrett...

Date Published
1951
1956
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Publicity photo of Paul Creston

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Publicity photo of Paul Creston seated with hands resting on a chair, wearing dark suit with dark tie.

Date Published
1944
1956
Member of
Paul Creston Collection

Publicity photo of Paul Creston

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Publicity photo of Paul Creston looking straight at camera, wearing dark suit with dark tie.

Date Published
1944
1956
Member of
Paul Creston Collection

Publicity photo of Paul Creston

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Publicity photo of Paul Creston looking straight at camera, wearing dark suit with dark tie.

Date Published
1944
1956
Member of
Paul Creston Collection

Record pressing equipment

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Record pressing equipment.

Date Published
1941
1956
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Richard Bolling and Ted Bland standing with postal workers

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Richard Bolling and Ted Bland standing with unidentified African American male postal workers sorting mail at a Post Office in Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
1956
1964
Member of
Richard W. Bolling Collection

Transcription Laboratory of Damon Sound Service

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Unidentified man operating record cutting lathe in the Transcription Laboratory of Damon Sound Service.

Date Published
1941
1956
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Vic Damon and unidentified man operating record cutting lathes

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Vic Damon (left, holding stopwatch) and unidentified man operating record cutting lathes.

Date Published
1941
1956
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Vic Damon holding a 16" instantaneous-cut disc

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Vic Damon holding a 16" instantaneous-cut disc and standing next to record cutting lathes at Damon Recording Studios.

Date Published
1941
1956
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

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Member of

  • Vic Damon Collection (9)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (4)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (4)
  • Paul Creston Collection (3)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (2)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (2)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (1)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (1)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (1)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (28)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (28)
  • Portrait photographs (17)
  • Group portraits (15)
  • Publicity photographs (10)
  • Snapshots (9)
  • Postcards (1)
  • (-) Gelatin silver prints (28)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (27)
  • 1941-1950 (11)
  • 1961-1970 (1)

Subjects

  • Men, White (9)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (8)
  • Jazz musicians (7)
  • African American jazz musicians (6)
  • Sound engineers (6)
  • African American men (5)
  • Pianists (5)
  • African American women (4)
  • Jazz musicians, White (4)
  • Composers (3)
  • Double bassists (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Sound recordings (3)
  • Actors (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Harmonica players (2)
  • Rockabilly musicians (2)
  • Singers (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Band directors (1)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • City managers (1)
  • Cowboys (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Marquees (1)
  • Parades (1)
  • Pipe smokers (1)
  • Politicians (1)
  • Postal service--Employees (1)
  • Postmasters (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (1)
  • Television actors and actresses (1)
  • Theaters (1)
  • Tobacco pipes (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (2)
  • 11th Street (1)
  • Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Damon, Victor L., 1901-1974 (5)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (4)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (3)
  • Basso, Terry (3)
  • Creston, Paul, 1906-1985 (3)
  • Riley, Billy Lee (2)
  • Bland, Ted (1)
  • Bolling, Richard, 1916-1991 (1)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (1)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (1)
  • Dexter, Dave (1)
  • Durrett, Warren (1)
  • Hawkins, Coleman (1)
  • Janes, Roland (1)
  • Jones, Hank, 1918-2010 (1)
  • Lewis, Jerry, 1926- (1)
  • Lupton, John, 1928-1993 (1)
  • Martin, Dean, 1917-1995 (1)
  • Maye, Marilyn (1)
  • O'Brian, Hugh (1)
  • Pepper, Marvin (1)
  • Redmond, Joseph K., 1913-1996 (1)
  • Rhoden, Elmer C., 1893-1981 (1)
  • Van Eaton, Jim (1)
  • Walker, Clint, 1927- (1)

Events

  • Newport Jazz Festival (1956) (1)

Date Published

  • 1941 (8)
  • 1944 (3)
  • 1951 (2)
  • 1952 (1)
  • 1959 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1964 (1)
  • (-) 1956 (28)

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