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Aritha Anne Dorsey-Clayton

Image

An elderly Aritha Anne Dorsey-Clayton.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller smiling at the camera while playing piano. Milt Abel is playing double bass behind her. There's a salt shaker on the piano in front of...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller smiling while playing piano and looking over to the right of the photo. Milt Abel is playing double bass behind her. There's a salt...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller seated at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown (unseen in photo) on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller standing at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller standing at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man, likely Milt Abel, on double...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown (unseen in photo) on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller in a hotel room

Image

Bettye Miller standing next to a large television set in a hotel room. She's wearing a black dress with pearls and facing the camera, smiling.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller in a trio

Image

Bettye Miller on piano, Milt Abel on bass, and an unidentified white man on drums, performing. Miller is facing the camera and the drummer's face is...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller playing piano

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano. A curtain is close behind her and a microphone is set up in front of her. She's turned to the camera and smiling.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller singing and playing piano

Image

Bettye Miller singing into a microphone while playing piano on stage with (likely) Milt Abel. A tear in the photograph makes only the double bass...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller with Milt Abel

Image

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel standing together in a carpeted room between two curtained windows. Miller is wearing a stole with corsage. Abel is...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller with three others at a club

Image

Bettye Miller in a light colored dress with long gloves and smoking a cigarette seated at a table in an unidentified club with an unidentified woman...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller with twelve others around a table

Image

Bettye Miller (standing, center) with twelve unidentified others (African American and white men and women) around a table in a club or restaurant...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bob, Leata, and LaRue go for a stroll

Image

Bob, Leata and LaRue walking arm-in-arm along an outdoor wooded trail. Bob is taking a drink. All three have hats with wide brims.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Clayton family at the beach

Image

Buck and Pat Clayton at the beach with an unidentified woman and child behind them.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Couple looking at each other in the eyes

Image

An African American male soldier, wearing dress uniform with his hat in his left hand, stands and looks into the eyes of a African American woman in a...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Crowded outpatient clinic

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Large group of African American and white women and children waiting in the outpatient clinic. Pay phone and vending machine seen at the back of the...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Eddie Barefield with his clarinet

Image

Eddie Barefield on stage holding his clarinet with Mae Barnes and a partial view of a pianist to Barefield's right while on the Art Ford Show.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Gene Austin playing piano and singing

Image

Gene Austin playing piano and singing for patients (white girls and boys) and other visitors (African American and white women and a white man) around...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

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  • African American women

Member of

  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (25)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (15)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (5)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (5)
  • Priscilla Bowman Collection (3)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (54)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (52)
  • Gelatin silver prints (52)
  • Snapshots (37)
  • Group portraits (34)
  • Portrait photographs (15)
  • Publicity photographs (4)
  • Color photographs (2)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (46)
  • 1941-1950 (4)
  • 1931-1940 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (28)
  • African American jazz musicians (27)
  • Pianists (27)
  • African American men (25)
  • Piano (21)
  • Double bassists (15)
  • Musical instruments (15)
  • Double bass (14)
  • Men, White (14)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (10)
  • Drum set (10)
  • Microphone (10)
  • Porches (9)
  • Jazz musicians, White (8)
  • Women, White (8)
  • Jazz singers (4)
  • Nurses (4)
  • African American children (3)
  • Children, White (3)
  • Hospital patients (3)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (3)
  • Women singers (3)
  • Audiences (2)
  • Automobiles (2)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (2)
  • Beachgoers (2)
  • Children--Hospital care (2)
  • Dancers (2)
  • Musicians (2)
  • Salt shakers (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • African American teenage girls (1)
  • Bathing suits (1)
  • Birdcages (1)
  • Bouquets (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Clarinet (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • College students (1)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (1)
  • Dolls (1)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (1)
  • Drum majorettes (1)
  • Easter decorations (1)
  • Evening gowns (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Handbags (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Hospital beds (1)
  • Hospitals--Employees (1)
  • Hotels (1)
  • Military uniforms (1)
  • Older African Americans (1)
  • Older men (1)
  • Older people (1)
  • Older women (1)
  • Parades (1)
  • Public telephones (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Television--Receivers and reception (1)
  • Toddlers (1)
  • Trails (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Variety shows (Television programs) (1)
  • Vending machines (1)
  • Violin (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Waiting rooms (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • Women's hats (1)
  • (-) African American women (54)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Chicago (Ill.) (3)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (2)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (22)
  • Brown, Corky (9)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (6)
  • Clayton, Patricia (3)
  • Bowman, Priscilla (2)
  • Austin, Gene, 1900-1972 (1)
  • Barefield, Eddie, 1909-1991 (1)
  • Barnes, Mae (1)
  • Bryant, Betty, 1929- (1)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (1)
  • Cole, Helen P., 1926-2014 (1)
  • Dorsey-Clayton, Aritha Anne (1)
  • Foster, Curtyse (1)
  • Johnson, Rosa B. (1)
  • Love, Bunnie (Bumps) (1)
  • Nolan, Bill (Drummer) (1)
  • Price, Elmer, 1917-2004 (1)
  • Shaw, Joan (Vocalist) (1)
  • Smith, Maureen (Pianist) (1)
  • Taylor, Myra (1)
  • Weaver, Margaret (1)
  • Wright, John M., 1867- (1)
  • Wright, Josephine, 1876- (1)

Date Published

  • 1951 (52)
  • 1931 (1)
  • 1941 (1)
  • (-) 1960 (54)

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