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Buck with two Japanese women

Image

Buck Clayton posing with two unidentified Japanese women in traditional kimonos in Japan.

Date Published
1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Candid moment around the tables at the Forest Ballroom

Image

Group of at least six people, including four white drag queens, largely unidentified except for "Dr. Garcia" on the far left in a green checked jacket...

Date Published
1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Conversation at the Forest Ballroom

Image

Two unidentified white drag queens holding Styrofoam cups and talking at the Forest Ballroom in Kansas City; the person on the right is seated and...

Date Published
1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Couple at a table at the Forest Ballroom

Image

Unidentified couple (a white man and drag queen) seated at a table at the Forest Ballroom in Kansas City; the man on the right in an orange sweater...

Date Published
1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Couple posing for a photo outside the Colony Club

Image

A couple, arm in arm, posing for a photo in front of the tiled wall outside the Colony Club in Kansas City; the unidentified white man on the right is...

Date Published
1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Dave McKenna, Cutty Cutshall, and Bob LaPlante with Buck Clayton

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Dave McKenna, Cutty Cutshall, and Bob LaPlante with a grinning Buck Clayton.

Date Published
1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Dr. Garcia and friend

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"Dr. Garcia", wearing a green check shirt and blue jeans, standing with his arm around the waist of an unidentified white drag queen by the stage at...

Date Published
1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Dr. Garcia and unidentified drag queen in front of the stage

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"Dr. Garcia", wearing a green check shirt and blue jeans with a cigarette in one hand standing arm in arm for a photo with an unidentified white drag...

Date Published
1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Drag queen in fur stole

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Drag queen Patrick C. Byrne at the Forest Ballroom in Kansas City wearing a black dress with a white fur stole posing for a photo; facing the camera.

Date Published
1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Eddie Rickenbacker and L. to R. McLaughlin, LPC, Raymond Buck - E.R. + Mayor Justin

Image

Group of formally dressed men sitting at a table identified from left to right as McLaughlin, L. Perry Cookingham, Raymond Buck, Eddie Rickenbacker...

Date Published
1959
1964
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

In front of the stage at the Forest Ballroom

Image

Three unidentified white participants competing in a drag ball, with the emcee and the Kings of Rythm [sic] on the bandstand; the person in front of...

Date Published
1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Japanese woman with children

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An unidentified woman in traditional dress holding two children by the hand on a sidewalk in Japan.

Date Published
1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

L. Perry Cookingham sits next to Harriette W. Cookingham at unknown restaurant

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L. Perry Cookingham in brown jacket sits next to Harriette W. Cookingham in plum dress and hat at unknown restaurant.

Date Published
1964
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Lady in red

Image

Unidentified white drag queen at the Forest Ballroom in Kansas City wearing a red robe or housecoat over black lace shorts; she is lifting the coat in...

Date Published
1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Nature calls

Image

Unidentified white drag queen pausing for a photo before entering the men's room; body facing right with head turned to face the camera and smiling.

Date Published
1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

On the dance floor at the Forest Ballroom

Image

Two unidentified white drag queens on the dance floor of the Forest Ballroom in Kansas City; the one in red is on her knees and the one in the black...

Date Published
1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Posing with a white stole

Image

Unidentified white drag queen posing for a photo wearing a black dress, white stole and red high heel shoes; facing the left with head turned to look...

Date Published
1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Seated around a table

Image

Four unidentified white people seated around a table at the Forest Ballroom in Kansas City; two drag queens on the right and two unidentified men, one...

Date Published
1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Stanley S. Kresge +

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Stanley S. Kresge and unidentified man in tuxedos stand in blue and white room at unknown location.

Date Published
1949
1964
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Talking with friends at the Forest Ballroom

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"Dr. Garcia" with his back to the camera seated at a table with an unidentified white woman and unidentified drag queen; two are smoking and there are...

Date Published
1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Waiting in Japan

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A group of Japanese people waiting behind a fence, possibly at an airport.

Date Published
1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Woman singing with big band

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Unidentified white woman singing in front of a microphone with a big band behind her. Ed Dix seen in the back right, on tenor saxophone.

Date Published
1964
Member of
Ed Dix Collection
  • Clear selected
  • 1964
  • Color photographs

Member of

  • GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection (14)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (4)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (3)
  • Ed Dix Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (22)

Genres

  • Group portraits (18)
  • Slides (14)
  • Portrait photographs (7)
  • Snapshots (5)
  • Cityscape photographs (2)
  • Film transparencies (2)
  • Stereographs (2)
  • (-) Color photographs (22)

Time Periods

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

Subjects

  • Men, White (15)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects (14)
  • Gay bars (14)
  • Gay men (14)
  • Drag queens (13)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (5)
  • Conversation (4)
  • Smoking (4)
  • Bands (Music) (3)
  • Jazz musicians (3)
  • Stoles (Clothing) (3)
  • Women, White (3)
  • African American jazz musicians (2)
  • African American men (2)
  • Fur garments (2)
  • Jazz musicians, White (2)
  • Lesbians (2)
  • Signs and signboards (2)
  • Women (2)
  • Airports (1)
  • Beverages (1)
  • Big bands (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Dinners and dining (1)
  • Drag shows (1)
  • Gays (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Kimonos (1)
  • Lingerie (1)
  • Masters of ceremonies (1)
  • Mayors (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Restrooms (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Tattooed people (1)
  • Tattooing (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)

Subjects, Community

  • LGBTQ+ people (14)
  • White gay men (14)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (14)
  • White lesbians (2)
  • LGBTQ+ events (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (14)

Subjects, People

  • Garcia, Dr. (4)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (2)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (2)
  • Beard, Beth Elaine (1)
  • Byrne, Patrick C. (1)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (1)
  • Cutshall, Cutty (1)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (1)
  • Frazier, Helen (1)
  • Justin, John S., 1917-2001 (1)
  • Kresge, Stanley Sebastian, 1900- (1)
  • LaPlante, Bob, 1924- (1)
  • McKenna, Dave (1)
  • Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973 (1)

Date Published

  • 1949 (1)
  • 1959 (1)
  • (-) 1964 (22)

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