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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

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

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

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
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  • 1956
  • Men, White

Member of

  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (4)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (2)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (1)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (1)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (9)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (9)
  • Gelatin silver prints (9)
  • Group portraits (8)
  • Snapshots (5)
  • Publicity photographs (4)
  • Portrait photographs (2)
  • Postcards (1)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (9)
  • 1961-1970 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (5)
  • African American jazz musicians (4)
  • African American men (4)
  • African American women (4)
  • Jazz musicians, White (4)
  • Pianists (4)
  • Double bassists (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Sound recordings (3)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Harmonica players (2)
  • Rockabilly musicians (2)
  • Singers (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • Band directors (1)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Cowboys (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Pipe smokers (1)
  • Politicians (1)
  • Postal service--Employees (1)
  • Postmasters (1)
  • Television actors and actresses (1)
  • Tobacco pipes (1)
  • (-) Men, White (9)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (4)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (3)
  • Basso, Terry (3)
  • Riley, Billy Lee (2)
  • Bland, Ted (1)
  • Bolling, Richard, 1916-1991 (1)
  • Durrett, Warren (1)
  • Janes, Roland (1)
  • Lupton, John, 1928-1993 (1)
  • Maye, Marilyn (1)
  • O'Brian, Hugh (1)
  • Pepper, Marvin (1)
  • Van Eaton, Jim (1)
  • Walker, Clint, 1927- (1)

Date Published

  • 1951 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1964 (1)
  • (-) 1956 (9)

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