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18th Street and the Paseo in the 1940s

Image

Street's hotel and environs, 18th and Paseo; Kansas City, Missouri, with people walking on the sidewalks and cars parked along the street.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

1946 Mercury

Image

An unidentified African American woman with her back to the photographer, reaches her left hand across the hood of a 1946 Mercury Sedan to reach her...

Date Published
1946
1949
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

1946 Mercury

Image

A photograph of a parked 1946 Mercury sedan with the driver's side door open. Two unidentified African American people, a man and a woman, are on the...

Date Published
1946
1949
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

2nd Baptist Church, Independence, Missouri with view of message on back of postcard

Image

Front: Postcard photo, 2nd St. Baptist church in Independence, Missouri, 116 E. White Oak St., is one of the oldest black Baptist churches in Missouri...

Date Published
1907
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

A.M.E. Zion General Conference

Image

Twelve African American men, Board of Bishops of the AME Zions, St. Louis, Missouri, stand on steps in front of doors to a building in Washington D.C...

Date Published
May-18-1928
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Airplanes on a taxiway

Image

Four airplanes sitting on the taxiway at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Albert Sexton

Image

A studio portrait of Albert Sexton standing outside in tall grass in front of a barn door and behind a broken wood rail fence. He holds a piece of...

Date Published
1891
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Alice Cecilia Willett

Image

A studio portrait of Alice Cecilia Willett sitting sideways with her ankles crossed smiling over her left shoulder at the photographer. A tropical...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

All bundled up in the snow

Image

An unidentified African American woman, from her left side, is all bundled up in a winter hat with the brim turned up all the way round and a full...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

All dressed up

Image

An unidentified African American toddler smiles and stands on a sidewalk in a hat, a light colored dress, and an oversized dark belt. He or she also...

Date Published
1915
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Anglin and Bailey stand in front of a weaving of John F. Kennedy

Image

Two African American soldiers, Anglin and Bailey, stand in front of a woven image of John F. Kennedy sitting behind a microphone, in front of the...

Date Published
1961
1963
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Annie Porter

Image

A studio portrait of Annie Porter with a bow in her hair and a high-collared light-colored blouse. The illegible studio name is embossed on the...

Date Published
September-1904
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Army soldiers measure up in ranks

Image

African American Army men hold out their left arms to touch the right shoulder of the man next to them, and look to their right to measure their...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Army soldiers outside the barracks

Image

A candid photo of an African American Army soldier on a bike smiling at the photographer over his right shoulder outside barracks. Another soldier is...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Army soldiers stand at attention for the raising of the flag

Image

African American soldiers stand at attention in ranks for the raising of the flag by two soldiers standing by a large flagpole. An MP soldier on the...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Award being given

Image

Two African American soldiers shake hands at a table as one hands the other a trophy. The soldier handing the trophy over has a shoulder patch from...

Date Published
December-1955
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Baby in a Christening gown (front and back of photograph)

Image

Front: A studio portrait of an unidentified African American baby wearing a Christening gown and sitting in an upholstered chair. Back: Back of the...

Date Published
1881
1890
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Baby in a sweater

Image

A studio portrait of an unidentified baby wearing a sweater and light colored shoes that tie.

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Baby seated in a chair

Image

A studio portrait of an unidentified African American toddler sitting in a chair in a light-colored dress with dark shoes that tie.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Band playing at the Jockey Jazz Club

Image

A band sits on stage likely playing jazz at the Jockey Club, 10th and Paseo in Kansas City, Missouri. Farthest to the left is Bill Jones playing drums...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Baton twirlers

Image

African American female baton twirlers perform on the court of the gymnasium of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Bennie and Lizzie in the garden at Marland Estate

Image

Bennie sits on a tacked quarter horse while Lizzie stands to their left with a dog in front of her outside the Marland Estate in the garden or...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Bob Hogan

Image

Photo of Bob Hogan, standing in military uniform, from his right side, holding a stationary rifle up to is eye as he is playing a rifle game in...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley 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

Boy standing next to the car

Image

An unidentified African American boy stands on the curb on the passenger side next to a 1946-1948 Ford with a Kansas license plate parked in a...

Date Published
September-1953
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

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Genres

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Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (119)
  • 1921-1930 (104)
  • 1931-1940 (61)
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  • 1891-1900 (22)
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  • 1961-1970 (18)
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Subjects

  • African American men (237)
  • African American women (223)
  • African American children (50)
  • Automobiles (41)
  • Soldiers (39)
  • Men, White (25)
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  • African American teenage girls (7)
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  • African American jazz musicians (6)
  • Gardens (6)
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  • Saxophonists (6)
  • Automobiles, Convertible (5)
  • Bentwood furniture (5)
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  • African American teenage boys (4)
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  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (4)
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  • Children, White (4)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (4)
  • Fraternal organizations (4)
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  • Musicians (4)
  • Teachers (4)
  • Women household employees (4)
  • Beaches (3)
  • Benches (3)
  • Choral conductors (3)
  • Cigars (3)
  • Fur garments (3)
  • Golf carts (3)
  • Horses (3)
  • Literature--Societies, etc. (3)
  • Mothers (3)
  • Porches (3)
  • Snow (3)
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  • Streets (3)
  • Trumpet players (3)
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  • Advertising--Photographers (2)
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  • Cities and towns (2)
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  • Fezzes (2)
  • Flags (2)
  • High school students (2)
  • Hotels (2)
  • Jeep automobile (2)
  • Lakes (2)
  • Letter writing (2)
  • Living rooms (2)
  • Microphone (2)
  • Military bases (2)
  • Native American men (2)
  • Parades (2)
  • Parks (2)
  • Physicians (2)
  • Quarter horse (2)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (2)
  • Tennis players (2)
  • Wagons (2)
  • Wedding costume (2)
  • Weddings (2)
  • African American boys (1)
  • African American teenagers (1)
  • Agricultural laborers (1)
  • Airplanes, Military (1)
  • Amusement parks (1)
  • Asian conical hats (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Automobile drivers (1)
  • Awards (1)
  • Axes (1)
  • Baby carriages (1)
  • Bandages and bandaging (1)
  • Band directors (1)
  • Baptist church buildings (1)
  • Barbecuing (1)
  • Barns (1)
  • Basketball players (1)
  • Basketball uniforms (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Baton twirling (1)
  • Battlefield monuments (1)
  • Bishops (1)
  • Blackface entertainers (1)
  • Bombs (1)
  • Brass instruments (1)
  • Breechcloths (1)
  • Brick roads (1)
  • Brothers and sisters (1)
  • Businessmen (1)
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  • Cactus (1)
  • Canoes and canoeing (1)
  • Canoes and canoeing--Design and construction (1)
  • Carports (1)
  • Carriages and carts (1)
  • Christening gowns (1)
  • Christmas cards (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Cigar smoking (1)
  • Circus bands (1)
  • Clergy (1)
  • Clubs (1)
  • Clutch bags (1)
  • Colocasia (1)
  • Consumer goods (1)
  • Conversation (1)
  • Cornet (1)
  • Couples (1)
  • Cowboys (1)
  • Crosscut saws (1)
  • Crowds (1)
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  • Department stores (1)
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  • Evening gowns (1)
  • Fire departments--Uniforms (1)
  • Fire engines (1)
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  • Fishing (1)
  • Flagpoles (1)
  • Flowering trees (1)
  • Food (1)
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  • General stores (1)
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  • Granddaughters (1)
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  • Handbags (1)
  • Homecoming (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Laughter (1)
  • Lawn chairs (1)
  • Lectures and lecturing (1)
  • Mansions (1)
  • Marching bands (1)
  • Military chapels (1)
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  • Minstrels (1)
  • Monuments (1)
  • Mother and child (1)
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  • Motorcycle racing (1)
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  • Mustaches (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Office furniture (1)
  • Older men (1)
  • Ordnance (1)
  • Palms (1)
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  • Parade floats (1)
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  • Percussion instruments (1)
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  • Pickup trucks (1)
  • Pinball machines (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
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  • Professional athletes (1)
  • Quiltmakers (1)
  • Radio (1)
  • Rain forest people (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Restaurateurs (1)
  • Rifles (1)
  • River boats (1)
  • Roads--Snow and ice control (1)
  • Sailors (1)
  • Sheds (1)
  • Shields (1)
  • Shorthand--Study and teaching (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Sisters (1)
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  • Staircases (1)
  • Stone walls (1)
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  • Tennis rackets (1)
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  • Trails (1)
  • Triangle (Musical instrument) (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Trucks (1)
  • Tubists (1)
  • Typewriters (1)
  • Typewriting--Study and teaching (1)
  • Violin (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Wedding anniversaries (1)
  • Wedges (1)
  • Wheelbarrows (1)
  • Wicker furniture (1)
  • Women's clothing (1)
  • Women's hats (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (83)
  • Independence (Kan.) (12)
  • Marland Estate (Ponca City, Okla.) (12)
  • Chicago (Ill.) (4)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (3)
  • Detroit (Mich.) (2)
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  • Saigon (Vietnam) (2)
  • Topeka (Kan.) (2)
  • Washington (D.C.) (2)
  • 18th Street (1)
  • Atchison (Kan.) (1)
  • Atlantic City (N.J.) (1)
  • Boston (Mass.) (1)
  • Charleston (S.C.) (1)
  • Dayton (Ohio) (1)
  • Delaware (1)
  • Denver (Colo.) (1)
  • DeWitt (Neb.) (1)
  • Fort Scott (Kan.) (1)
  • Gettysburg National Military Park (Pa.) (1)
  • Grand Rapids (Mich.) (1)
  • Joplin (Mo.) (1)
  • Kay County (Okla.) (1)
  • Kirksville (Mo.) (1)
  • Lincoln (Neb.) (1)
  • Mount Airy (N.C.) (1)
  • Nashville (Tenn.) (1)
  • New Orleans (La.) (1)
  • New York (N.Y.) (1)
  • Ogden (Utah) (1)
  • Paseo Boulevard (1)
  • Saint Joseph (Mo.) (1)
  • Saint Louis (Mo.) (1)
  • Salida (Colo.) (1)
  • Scott Air Force Base (Ill.) (1)
  • Tipton (Kan.) (1)
  • Tulsa (Okla.) (1)
  • Vietnam (1)
  • White Cloud (Kan.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Davis, Dowdal H. (Dowdal Henry), 1913-1957 (13)
  • Scott, Cornelia (8)
  • Foster, Curtyse (3)
  • Wright, Josephine, 1876- (3)
  • Holmes, D. A. (Mrs.) (2)
  • Jacobs, Mary Virginia (2)
  • King, Mamie (2)
  • Lockwood, Juanita (2)
  • Tucker, Thad (2)
  • Wright, John M., 1867- (2)
  • Baker, Bryant, 1881-1970 (1)
  • Bohannon, Lee (1)
  • Brooks, G.H. (Of the City of Kansas (Kan.)) (1)
  • Cole, Helen P., 1926-2014 (1)
  • Davidson, Jo, 1883-1952 (1)
  • Davis, Marguerite (of Independence, Kan.) (1)
  • Dye, Coots, 1912-1998 (1)
  • Fisher, Williams (Pianist) (1)
  • Gates, Ollie (1)
  • Huggins, Speedy, 1913-1999 (1)
  • Jackson, Arthur, 1920-2006 (1)
  • Johnson, Rosa B. (1)
  • Jones, Wallace (Drummer) (1)
  • Jones, Willie, 1929-1991 (1)
  • Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 (1)
  • Love, Bunnie (Bumps) (1)
  • Lowery, P. G. (Perry George), 1869-1942 (1)
  • Marland, George Roberts, 1897-1957 (1)
  • Memphis Slim (1)
  • Miller, Joseph C., 1868-1927 (1)
  • Nolan, Bill (Drummer) (1)
  • Patterson, Susie (1)
  • Perry, John Edward, 1870-1962 (1)
  • Pickett, Bill, approximately 1860-1932 (1)
  • Pleasonton, Alfred, 1824-1897 (1)
  • Price, Elmer, 1917-2004 (1)
  • Proctor, Alexander Phimister, 1860-1950 (1)
  • Santa Claus (Fictitious character) (1)
  • Smith, Maureen (Pianist) (1)
  • Taylor, Myra (1)
  • Taylor, Otis (1)
  • Warren, Julia (1)
  • Washington, Jack, 1910-1964 (1)
  • Watkins, T.B. (Theron B.), 1877-1950 (1)
  • Weir, Jack (Minstrel) (1)
  • Wesley, Lucky (1)
  • Willett, Alice Cecilia (1)

Events

  • African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. General Conference (1)

Date Published

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  • 1940 (38)
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  • 1920 (28)
  • 1900 (21)
  • 1891 (20)
  • 1961 (15)
  • 1970 (15)
  • 1901 (12)
  • 1910 (12)
  • 1918 (12)
  • 1971 (12)
  • 1980 (12)
  • 1904 (9)
  • 1949 (8)
  • 1929 (6)
  • 1939 (5)
  • 1881 (4)
  • 1923 (4)
  • 1938 (4)
  • 1946 (4)
  • 1953-09 (3)
  • 1959 (3)
  • 1890 (2)
  • 1907 (2)
  • 1914 (2)
  • 1926 (2)
  • 1928 (2)
  • 1933 (2)
  • 1935 (2)
  • 1936 (2)
  • 1947-09-04 (2)
  • 1954-05 (2)
  • 1957-01 (2)
  • 1958 (2)
  • 1962 (2)
  • 1990 (2)
  • 1853 (1)
  • 1893 (1)
  • 1904-09 (1)
  • 1911-06-16 (1)
  • 1915 (1)
  • 1916-11-18 (1)
  • 1916-11-19 (1)
  • 1919 (1)
  • 1924 (1)
  • 1928-05-18 (1)
  • 1928-07-15 (1)
  • 1928-07-30 (1)
  • 1930-10-25 (1)
  • 1937 (1)
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  • 1942-11-11 (1)
  • 1944 (1)
  • 1944-12-31 (1)
  • 1945-03-09 (1)
  • 1945-07-23 (1)
  • 1945-07-28 (1)
  • 1947 (1)
  • 1947-11-27 (1)
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  • 1948-09-01 (1)
  • 1955-12 (1)
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  • 1963-09 (1)
  • 1967-06 (1)
  • 1969 (1)
  • 1974-06 (1)
  • 1977 (1)
  • 1978 (1)
  • 1988-07 (1)
  • 2027-12-21 (1)

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