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Armed Forces Radio Service featuring comedians

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Armed Forces Radio Service group photo featuring Fred Allen, Jimmy Durante, and Jack Benny wearing suits and making facial expressions during a comedy...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Armed Forces Radio Service featuring entertainers

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Armed Forces Radio Service group photo featuring Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, and Edgar Bergen rehearsing for a show. All are looking at papers while...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Armed Forces Radio Service group photo

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Armed Forces Radio Service group photo of Command Performance U.S.A. stage performance. Dozens of unidentified musicians in uniform and wearing suits...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Armed Forces Radio Service group photo

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Armed Forces Radio Service group photo featuring (left to right) an unidentified man, Jimmy Durante, Jerry Colonna, an unidentified woman, Frank...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope on "Can You Tie That"

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Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, an unidentified man (standing in the background), and Al Jarvis seated at tables with microphones and water pitchers for a...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope on "Can You Tie That"

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Bing Crosby and Bob Hope seated at tables with microphones and water pitchers for a recording of "Can You Tie That," KLAC radio program hosted by Al...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bing Crosby, Dave Dexter, Ella Logan, Al Jarvis, and Bob Hope

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Bing Crosby, Dave Dexter, Al Jarvis, and Bob Hope standing left to right behind Ella Logan. Logan is sitting at a table with a KLAC microphone. Crosby...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Hope

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Bob Hope holding onto a railing and looking up. Hope is wearing a double breasted suit jacket.

Date Published
1961
1965
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Hope and two unidentified men

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Bob Hope speaking with two unidentified men. Hope is sitting with one leg up on a chair, wearing a patterned suit.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Hope onstage

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Bob Hope onstage, possibly during a rehearsal for a radio broadcast. Hope is raising both arms in the air to indicate distance. Hope is wearing a dark...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Buck Clayton with Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, and Joe Bushkin

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Jackie Gleason seated with Buck Clayton, Joe Bushkin, Art Carney, and others; Embers Club, New York City.

Date Published
1951
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Carol Burnett signing the cast of a teenage boy in a wheelchair

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Carol Burnett signing the leg cast of a white teenage boy at Children's Mercy Hospital. The boy is sitting in a wheelchair. Burnett is kneeling and...

Date Published
July-01-1962
July-31-1962
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Carol Burnett visiting Children's Mercy Hospital

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Carol Burnett visiting with three female patients (two African American, one white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. On is lying in a hospital bed...

Date Published
July-01-1962
July-31-1962
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Carol Burnett visiting Children's Mercy Hospital

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Carol Burnett visiting Children's Mercy Hospital. She is standing on the steps and is waving down at the camera. Two other white women are walking on...

Date Published
July-01-1962
July-31-1962
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Dave Dexter, Anita Ellis, Al Jarvis, Red Skelton, and Rod O'Connor on broadcast of "Can You Tie That"

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Dave Dexter, Anita Ellis, Al Jarvis, Red Skelton, and Rod O'Connor seated at tables with microphones for a broadcast of "Can You Tie That" KLAC radio...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Buddy Cole, Al Jarvis, Jerry Colonna, and Anne McKeon, on "Can You Tie That"

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Dave Dexter, Buddy Cole, Al Jarvis, Jerry Colonna, and Anne McKeon, sitting at tables with microphones while recording a broadcast of "Can You Tie...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Ed Flynn, Al Jarvis, Eugene Howard, and Skinnay Ennis

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Dave Dexter, Ed Flynn, Al Jarvis,and Skinnay Ennis looking at Eugene Howard with shocked expressions as Howard reads from papers into a KLAC...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, June Christy, and Phil Harris

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Dave Dexter, June Christy, an unidentified man, and Phil Harris photographed from the side in a recording studio. All are smiling and looking forward...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Keenan Wynn, and Phil Harris

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Dave Dexter, Keenan Wynn, and Phil Harris sitting at a table with microphones. Dexter is looking to the side and laughing. Wynn is in the center and...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Keenan Wynn, and Phil Harris

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Dave Dexter, Keenan Wynn, and Phil Harris joking around. Dexter is sitting behind a table and laughing at Wynn who is on the table, laying on his side...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Red Skelton, and Al Jarvis

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Dave Dexter, Red Skelton, and an unidentified man standing behind an unidentified women and Al Jarvis. Dexter is wearing a light colored suit and...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Red Skelton, and Al Jarvis

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Dave Dexter, Red Skelton, and an unidentified man standing behind an unidentified women and Al Jarvis. Dexter is wearing a light colored suit and...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dean Martin and Nat King Cole

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Dean Martin and Nat King Cole standing shoulder to shoulder and looking to the side. Martin is laughing with his hand extended out. Both are wearing...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Edgar Bergen, Andy Russell, and Ingrid Bergman

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Edgar Bergen, Andy Russell, and Ingrid Bergman looking over papers. Russell is standing in the center, looking down while smiling. Bergen and Bergman...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Freddy Martin and Cass Daley

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Cass Daley and Freddy Martin holding papers and smiling while standing next to a microphone during a radio broadcast. Unidentified musicians are...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

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Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (31)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (7)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (3)

Types

  • photographs (41)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (37)
  • Gelatin silver prints (37)
  • Group portraits (37)
  • Portrait photographs (31)
  • Color photographs (4)
  • Architectural photographs (1)
  • (-) Snapshots (41)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (30)
  • 1991-2000 (4)
  • 1961-1970 (3)
  • 1971-1980 (1)

Subjects

  • Sound recording executives and producers (13)
  • Actors (10)
  • Jazz musicians (10)
  • Women, White (9)
  • Children, White (6)
  • Actresses (5)
  • Celebrities (5)
  • Children--Hospital care (5)
  • Hospital patients (5)
  • Authors, American (4)
  • Books (4)
  • Lesbians (4)
  • Radio programs (4)
  • Boys (3)
  • Men, White (3)
  • Radio talk show hosts (3)
  • Singers (3)
  • Women singers (3)
  • African American jazz musicians (2)
  • African American men (2)
  • African American women (2)
  • Male singers (2)
  • Rocking chairs (2)
  • African American children (1)
  • African American comedians (1)
  • Board games (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Columns (1)
  • Conductors (Music) (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Fund raisers (1)
  • Fund raising (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Hospital beds (1)
  • Hospital buildings (1)
  • Hospitals (1)
  • Medical instruments and apparatus (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Radio broadcasters (1)
  • Surgical plaster casts (1)
  • Tables (1)
  • Television actors and actresses (1)
  • Toys (1)
  • Toy stores (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • (-) Comedians (41)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (7)
  • New York (N.Y.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Dexter, Dave (15)
  • Jarvis, Al, 1910-1970 (13)
  • Hope, Bob, 1903-2003 (7)
  • Berle, Milton (4)
  • Harris, Phil, 1904-1995 (4)
  • Tomlin, Lily (4)
  • Burnett, Carol (3)
  • Christy, June, 1925-1990 (3)
  • Colonna, Jerry, 1904-1986 (3)
  • Crosby, Bing, 1903-1977 (3)
  • Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 (3)
  • Skelton, Red, 1913-1997 (3)
  • Bergen, Edgar, 1903-1978 (2)
  • Durante, Jimmy, 1893-1980 (2)
  • Hayes, Peter Lind, 1915-1998 (2)
  • Herman, Woody, 1913-1987 (2)
  • Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998 (2)
  • Wynn, Keenan, 1916-1986 (2)
  • Allen, Fred, 1896-1955 (1)
  • Anderson, Eddie, 1905-1977 (1)
  • Benny, Jack, 1894-1974 (1)
  • Bergman, Ingrid, 1915-1982 (1)
  • Bushkin, Joe (1)
  • Carney, Art, 1918-2003 (1)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (1)
  • Cole, Buddy (1)
  • Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 (1)
  • Daley, Cass (1)
  • Ellis, Anita, 1920- (1)
  • Ennis, Skinnay (1)
  • Flynn, Ed (1)
  • Garland, Judy (1)
  • Gleason, Jackie, 1916-1987 (1)
  • Howard, Eugene (1)
  • Jones, Philly Joe (1)
  • Logan, Ella, 1913-1969 (1)
  • Markham, Pigmeat (1)
  • Martin, Dean, 1917-1995 (1)
  • Martin, Freddy, 1906-1983 (1)
  • McVea, Jack (1)
  • Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976 (1)
  • O'Connor, Rod (1)
  • Rayburn, Gene (1)
  • Russell, Andy, 1919-1992 (1)
  • San Juan, Olga, 1927-2009 (1)
  • Simmons, Jean, 1929-2010 (1)
  • Taylor, Johnny (Musician) (1)
  • Traill, Sinclair (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (26)
  • 1941 (21)
  • 1950 (13)
  • 1962-07-01 (3)
  • 1962-07-31 (3)
  • 1995-11-06 (3)
  • 1931 (2)
  • 1940 (2)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1965 (1)
  • 1995-11-03 (1)

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