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Bettye Miller signing a copy of her album

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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 and the Original Little Green Men

Image

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

City Hostesses

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Two women identified as city hostesses, standing in front of a table with flowers and tea cups and saucers in office in City Hall with Union jack and...

Date Published
1956
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

City Hostesses at tea for British Ambassador

Image

Four women in office in city hall having tea, identified as city hostesses.

Date Published
1956
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Coleman Hawkins and Buck Clayton performing at the Newport Jazz Festival

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

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

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

Image

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

L. Perry Cookingham, H. Roe Bartle and Reed McKinley studying a model of the downtown loop

Image

L. Perry Cookingham pointing at model. Mayor H. Roe Bartle and Reed McKinley, director of public works studying a model of the downtown loop. All wear...

Date Published
1956
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Postcard for the Warren Durrett Orchestra with Marilyn Mayes

Image

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

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

Vic Damon and unidentified man operating record cutting lathes

Image

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

Date Published
1941
1956
Member of
Vic Damon Collection
  • Clear selected
  • 1956
  • Group portraits

Member of

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

Types

  • photographs (18)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (15)
  • Gelatin silver prints (15)
  • Portrait photographs (10)
  • Snapshots (8)
  • Publicity photographs (5)
  • Color photographs (3)
  • Film transparencies (2)
  • Stereographs (2)
  • Postcards (1)
  • (-) Group portraits (18)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (18)
  • 1941-1950 (2)
  • 1961-1970 (1)

Subjects

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

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)
  • Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (4)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (3)
  • Basso, Terry (3)
  • Damon, Victor L., 1901-1974 (2)
  • Bartle, Harold Roe, 1901-1974 (1)
  • 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)
  • Lewis, Jerry, 1926- (1)
  • Lupton, John, 1928-1993 (1)
  • Martin, Dean, 1917-1995 (1)
  • Maye, Marilyn (1)
  • McKinley, Reed (1)
  • O'Brian, Hugh (1)
  • Pepper, Marvin (1)
  • Redmond, Joseph K., 1913-1996 (1)
  • Rhoden, Elmer C., 1893-1981 (1)
  • Riley, Billy Lee (1)
  • Van Eaton, Jim (1)
  • Walker, Clint, 1927- (1)

Events

  • Newport Jazz Festival (1956) (1)

Date Published

  • 1941 (2)
  • 1951 (2)
  • 1952 (1)
  • 1964 (1)
  • (-) 1956 (18)

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