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Alberta Adams

Image

Blues vocalist Alberta Adams holds a microphone to her mouth with her right hand. She wears a sweater with bead and crystal appliques, rings on all...

Date Published
1985
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Audience during a MANA de Kansas City event

Image

A photograph of a seated Mexican American audience at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event in an auditorium. One African American woman and one...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
MANA de Kansas City Collection

Audience during a MANA de Kansas City event

Image

A profile photograph of a mostly Mexican American seated audience at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event in an auditorium. Two African American...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
MANA de Kansas City Collection

Audience stands and sings during a MANA de Kansas City event

Image

The audience of Mexican American women, one Mexican American man, and one African American woman stand and sing in an auditorium at an unidentified...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
MANA de Kansas City Collection

Blanche Williams holds a jack-o-lantern

Image

Blanche Williams stands outdoors with a big grin on her face as she holds a jack-o-lantern. She wears a denim jumpsuit. A demolished building spreads...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Blanche Williams sits on the floor in front of the Christmas tree

Image

Blanche Williams sits on the floor with wall-to-wall carpet and leans on one hand in front of a decorated Christmas tree. An antique chair is next to...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Blanche Williams stands in front of a limousine that is in front of The New York Times

Image

Blanche Williams stands on the sidewalk in New York City and grins at the camera as a white limousine is parked behind her. A bus advertising The New...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Blue Sky

Image

Blue Sky, a Kansas City blues band comprised of one African American woman and four white men, stand in front of an industrial machine. Printed in the...

Date Published
1985
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Buck Clayton showing the women the photographs

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Buck Clayton sits with an unidentified African American woman sitting on his lap and an unidentified white woman standing behind him as he points to...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton with jazz students

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Buck Clayton watching as jazz students practice their instruments and one African American woman sings in New York City.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Coaching a jazz singer

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Buck Clayton and an unidentified African American female student singing into a microphone during a jazz class, with two African American male trumpet...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Couple embracing while posing for a photo

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An unidentified African American man and African American woman stand as they embrace and smile at the photographer.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Crowded outpatient clinic

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View of the crowded outpatient clinic. Two unidentified female doctors or nurses, or a nurse and doctor (one African American, one white) are...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Deborah Brown singing

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Deborah Brown singing into a microphone held close to her mouth. She's facing the left of the photo.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Dee Dee Sharp

Image

R&B singer Dee Dee Sharp smiles at the camera in a close-up, head-shot photograph. She wears a blouse under a vest. Printed on the bottom of the...

Date Published
1985
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Dee Dee Sharp

Image

R&B singer Dee Dee Sharp smiles at the camera in a close-up, head-shot photograph. She wears drop earrings and a dark sweater with sparkles on it...

Date Published
1985
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Dolores Hobley and friends at the Negro League Baseball Museum

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Dolores Hobley (left) and two other African Americans stand arm in arm in front of the wall in front of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas...

Date Published
1990
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Dorothy Moore

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Funk and Soul singer Dorothy Moore smiles at the camera as she wears drop sparkly earrings and a blue sparkly jacket over a blue dress. Printed in the...

Date Published
1990
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Elbert "Coots" Dye and unidentified woman

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Elbert "Coots" Dye with an unidentified African American woman sitting on his lap, at an unidentified house party; another unidentified African...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Frank Ellis with three women at an event

Image

Photo of E. Frank Ellis standing to the left of three unidentified African American women. He is holding a microphone. The woman next to him is...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Freda Mendez-Smith sits with and audience sitting in an auditorium during a MANA de Kansas City event

Image

Freda Mendez-Smith, the person on the farthest right side of the photograph, sits on the back row with an audience of Mexican American women and men...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
MANA de Kansas City Collection

Fuzz

Image

Fuzz, a band comprised of four white men and one African American woman, stand around a vintage car. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Fuzz...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Gospel Girls

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The Gospel Girls, a gospel singing group comprised of four African American women, stand together each having one arm lifted waist high and with the...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Group photo with Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham

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Group photo of a group of jazz musicians sitting for a formal portrait and including Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham; Jimmy is holding his trombone and...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Helping a Junior Volunteer

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Seated unidentified white female Junior Volunteer receiving instructions from nurse Debra Riley on some sort of data entry form. Various people in the...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

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  • African American women

Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (19)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (13)
  • MANA de Kansas City Collection (11)
  • Jay McShann Collection (9)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (8)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (6)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (4)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (3)
  • Priscilla Bowman Collection (2)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (76)

Genres

  • Snapshots (52)
  • Color photographs (48)
  • Group portraits (45)
  • Black & white photographs (28)
  • Gelatin silver prints (27)
  • Portrait photographs (27)
  • Publicity photographs (16)
  • Photocopies (1)

Time Periods

  • 1981-1990 (54)
  • 1991-2000 (1)

Subjects

  • African American men (30)
  • African American jazz musicians (22)
  • Jazz musicians (20)
  • Men, White (16)
  • Women, White (14)
  • Singers (12)
  • Hispanic American women (11)
  • Jazz singers (11)
  • Mexican American women (11)
  • Hospitals--Employees (9)
  • Pianists (8)
  • Blues musicians (6)
  • African American children (5)
  • Audiences (5)
  • Food service employees (5)
  • Music students (5)
  • Volunteer workers in hospitals (5)
  • Hispanic American men (4)
  • Jazz musicians, White (4)
  • Men (4)
  • Mexican Americans (4)
  • Musicians' spouses (4)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (4)
  • Automobiles (3)
  • Children, White (3)
  • Children--Hospital care (3)
  • Double bassists (3)
  • Hospital patients (3)
  • Nurses (3)
  • Office furniture (3)
  • Singing (3)
  • Tables (3)
  • Teenage girls, White (3)
  • Trombonists (3)
  • Trumpet players (3)
  • African American women jazz singers (2)
  • Bands (Music) (2)
  • Boys (2)
  • Buildings (2)
  • Centerpieces (2)
  • Chairs (2)
  • Conversation (2)
  • Dinners and dining (2)
  • Double bass (2)
  • Eyeglasses (2)
  • Flowers (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Hotels (2)
  • Medical instruments and apparatus (2)
  • Microphone (2)
  • Mother and child (2)
  • Musical instruments (2)
  • Older women (2)
  • Parent and child (2)
  • Physicians (2)
  • Piano (2)
  • Saxophonists (2)
  • Sisters (2)
  • Tablecloths (2)
  • Trees (2)
  • Trombone (2)
  • Vans (2)
  • Vans--Maintenance and repair (2)
  • Vases (2)
  • Waiting rooms (2)
  • Women jazz musicians (2)
  • Women pianists (2)
  • Women singers (2)
  • Accordionists (1)
  • African American families (1)
  • Antique and classic cars (1)
  • Auscultation (1)
  • Autographs (1)
  • Awards (1)
  • Baby strollers (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
  • Buffets (Cooking) (1)
  • Cadillac automobile (1)
  • Christmas trees (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Cleaning (1)
  • Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Cruise ships (1)
  • Desks (1)
  • Drum (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Fans (Persons) (1)
  • Funk musicians (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Gospel singers (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Handbags (1)
  • Handicrafts (1)
  • Hospitals--Outpatient services (1)
  • Intravenous therapy--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Jack-o-lanterns (1)
  • Limousines (1)
  • Medical secretaries (1)
  • Mothers (1)
  • Music fans (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Necklaces (1)
  • Older men (1)
  • Oxygen therapy--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Oxygen therapy for children (1)
  • Parties (1)
  • Physical diagnosis--Examination (1)
  • Picture frames and framing (1)
  • Rosary (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • Shelving for books (1)
  • Smoking (1)
  • Sofas (1)
  • Soul musicians (1)
  • Stethoscopes (1)
  • Suggestion systems (1)
  • Teenagers (1)
  • Toddlers (1)
  • Toys (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Vacuum cleaners (1)
  • Windows (1)
  • Women artists (1)
  • Zydeco musicians (1)
  • (-) African American women (76)

Subjects, Geographic

  • New York (N.Y.) (5)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (3)

Subjects, People

  • McShann, Jay (8)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (6)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (6)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (3)
  • Quarles, Delmira (3)
  • Wallace, Brenda (3)
  • Williams, Blanche Fouse (3)
  • Bowman, Priscilla (2)
  • Gamble, Dee Dee Sharp (2)
  • Mejia, Bea Marie (2)
  • Muro, Barbara (Of Kansas City, Mo.) (2)
  • Simpson, Theresa (2)
  • Adams, Alberta (1)
  • Brown, Deborah, 1952- (1)
  • Castro, Joe M. (1)
  • Dye, Coots, 1912-1998 (1)
  • Eddy, Jane (1)
  • Ellis, E. Frank, 1918-2007 (1)
  • Evans, Charlotte (Sister of Jeannie Cheatham) (1)
  • Evans, Jo Anne (1)
  • Galaviz, DaLinda (1)
  • Gipson, Gloria (1)
  • Henderson, Gloria (Jazz fan) (1)
  • Henderson, John (Jazz fan) (1)
  • Ida, Queen (1)
  • Jones, Oliver, 1934- (1)
  • Liston, Melba (1)
  • McBeth, Ida (1)
  • McLaine, Millie (1)
  • McMorris, Lois LadyMac (1)
  • McPherson, Charles (1)
  • McShann, Marianne (1)
  • Mendez-Smith, Freda (1)
  • Milton, Lilly (1)
  • Moore, Dorothy (Vocalist) (1)
  • Ramos, Sally (1)
  • Riley, Debra (1)
  • Shell, Linda (Singer) (1)
  • Tate, Norene (1)
  • Vaughan, Sarah, 1924-1990 (1)
  • Wallace, Nora Jean (1)
  • Young, Debra (Medical secretary) (1)

Events

  • King Biscuit Blues Festival (1)
  • Spirit Festival (Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1981 (66)
  • 1985 (7)
  • 1989 (1)
  • 1997 (1)
  • (-) 1990 (76)

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