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Busy day at Phoenix Books

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Three white women working at Phoenix Books; one is behind a stack of books looking at the camera with another beside her looking down at something...

Date Published
1989
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Carol Smith at the keyboard

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Carol Smith seated at a Kurzweil electronic keyboard in front of a number of microphones at Phoenix Books.

Date Published
1989
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Group photo of a recording session

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Group photo of the sound personnel and the musicians during a recording session; featuring Dinky Morris, Clora Bryant, Snooky Young, Curtis Peagler...

Date Published
1989
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Guitarist at Phoenix Books

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Unidentified blonde white woman playing a guitar in front of a microphone at Phoenix Books; bookshelves can be seen behind her.

Date Published
1989
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Jay McShann playing piano with unidentified man holding a tambourine

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Unidentified African American man with half-moon tambourine seated next to Jay McShann playing piano with microphone nearby at Jazz City (the Jazz...

Date Published
1989
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jimmy Cheatham and others during a recording session

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Jimmy Cheatham playing trombone with Snooky Young and Clora Bryant, trumpets, Dinky Morris, Curtis Peagler, and another unidentified saxophonist...

Date Published
1989
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jimmy Cheatham playing trombone during a recording session

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Jimmy Cheatham standing and playing trombone during a recording session with "Snooky" Young, Clora Bryant, Dinky Morris, Jimmy Noone, Jr., and Curtis...

Date Published
1989
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Joan Driscoll and Christy Simpson at Phoenix Books

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Joan Driscoll (left) and Christy Simpson (right), aka The Neon Girls, with guitars in front of microphones at Phoenix Books; partial view of the...

Date Published
1989
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Joyce Constant playing guitar

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Joyce Constant, director of Kansas City Women's Chorus, in a red dress playing guitar in front of a microphone at Phoenix Books; behind and above is a...

Date Published
1989
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Joyce Constant speaking into a microphone

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Joyce Constant, director of Kansas City Women's Chorus, in a red dress speaking into a microphone at Phoenix Books; part of the banner for the Fifth...

Date Published
1989
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Neon Girls at Phoenix Books

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Neon Girls, Joan Driscoll (left) and Christy Simpson (right) with guitars in front of microphones at Phoenix Books; partial view of the banner for the...

Date Published
1989
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Papa John Creach and his violin

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"Papa" John Creach seated in front of a microphone and about to play his violin during a recording session; facing to the right of the photo.

Date Published
1989
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Playing guitar at Phoenix Books

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Unidentified white woman playing guitar in front of a microphone at Phoenix Books; behind her is a display window with a large stained glass sign for...

Date Published
1989
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Recording break

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Break time during a recording session; featuring Jimmy Cheatham, "Snooky" Young, Clora Bryant, Dinky Morris, Jimmy Noone, Jr., Curtis Peagler and...

Date Published
1989
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Rosy's Bar & Grill performing at Phoenix Books

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Rosy's Bar & Grill performing at Phoenix Books. Left to right: Carol Smith playing an autoharp, Tamara Severns holding a plastic cup while singing...

Date Published
1989
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Rosy's Bar and Grill band

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Performing behind a microphone at Phoenix Books, left to right, in the foreground: Carol Smith, playing an autoharp; Tamara Severns, singing while...

Date Published
1989
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Singing and playing guitar at Phoenix Books

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Unidentified white woman singing and playing guitar in front of a microphone at Phoenix Books; behind her is a display window with a large stained...

Date Published
1989
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection
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  • 1989
  • Microphone

Member of

  • GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection (11)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (5)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (17)

Genres

  • Snapshots (17)
  • Color photographs (16)
  • Group portraits (10)
  • Portrait photographs (7)
  • Black & white photographs (1)
  • Gelatin silver prints (1)

Time Periods

  • 1981-1990 (17)

Subjects

  • Independent bookstores (11)
  • Lesbians (11)
  • Women, White (11)
  • Guitar (8)
  • Guitarists (8)
  • African American jazz musicians (6)
  • Banners (5)
  • Jazz musicians (5)
  • Singers (5)
  • Sound studios (5)
  • Women musicians (5)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (4)
  • Musicians (3)
  • Women singers (3)
  • Autoharp (2)
  • Musical groups (2)
  • Show windows (2)
  • Signs and signboards (2)
  • Sound engineers (2)
  • Stained glass windows (2)
  • Trombone (2)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • Windows (2)
  • African American men (1)
  • African American women musicians (1)
  • Books (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Headphones (1)
  • Keyboard instruments (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Percussionists (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Shelving for books (1)
  • Sound--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Tambourine (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Violin (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • (-) Microphone (17)

Subjects, Community

  • LGBTQ+ events (11)
  • LGBTQ+ people (11)
  • White lesbians (11)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (11)
  • Women's bookshops (11)
  • LGBTQ+ musicians (10)
  • Gay liberation (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (11)

Subjects, People

  • Bryant, Clora, 1927- (4)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (4)
  • Driskill, Joan (4)
  • Morris, Dinky (4)
  • Peagler, Curtis (4)
  • Young, Snooky (4)
  • Smith, Carol (Musician) (3)
  • Wilson, Linda (Activist) (3)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (2)
  • Constant, Joyce (2)
  • Noone, Jimmie, 1938- (2)
  • Severns, Tamara (2)
  • Simpson, Christy (Musician) (2)
  • Callender, Red (1)
  • Creach, Papa John (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)

Events

  • National Women's Choral Festival (1989 : Kansas City, Mo.) (5)
  • Jazz City International Jazz Festival (1989 : Edmonton, Alta.) (1)

Date Published

  • (-) 1989 (17)

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