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"Ship Ahoy" A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

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Tommy Dorsey, Buddy Rich, Red Skelton, and Eleanor Powell posed in a publicity shot for the film "Ship Ahoy." Dorsey is playing trombone while Rich...

Date Published
1942
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

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

Artie Auerbach as Mr. Kitzel

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Mr. Kitzel (Artie Auerbach, featured comedian of the Jack Benny Show) seems to have charmed an extra long hot dog into performing for his customers...

Date Published
1945
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 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

Buck Clayton, Sammy Kaye, Art Carney, and Tommy Dorsey at a union meeting

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Buck Clayton (2nd from left), Sammy Kaye (4th from left, looking down), Art Carney (6th from left, looking down), and Tommy Dorsey (7th from left)...

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

Connie Haines and Lou Costello

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Connie Haines wearing a bathing suit and leaning back on a diving board. Haines is turning to the side and smiling. Comedian Lou Costello is operating...

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

Curly Howard and Louis Jordan in "Swing Parade of 1946"

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Curly Howard sitting and playing saxophone while looking dubiously at Louis Jordan who is smiling and approaching Howard with two fingers pointed out...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. 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

Image

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

Image

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

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Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (40)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (6)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (4)
  • GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection (2)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (53)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (48)
  • Gelatin silver prints (48)
  • Portrait photographs (38)
  • Snapshots (37)
  • Publicity photographs (14)
  • Color photographs (5)
  • Film transparencies (1)
  • Stereographs (1)
  • (-) Group portraits (53)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (37)
  • 1991-2000 (6)
  • 1931-1940 (2)
  • 1951-1960 (2)
  • 1971-1980 (2)
  • 1961-1970 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (13)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (13)
  • Actors (11)
  • Women, White (11)
  • Celebrities (6)
  • Children, White (6)
  • Lesbians (6)
  • Actresses (5)
  • Children--Hospital care (5)
  • Hospital patients (5)
  • Women singers (5)
  • Authors, American (4)
  • Books (4)
  • Men, White (4)
  • Radio programs (4)
  • Singers (4)
  • African American jazz musicians (3)
  • Boys (3)
  • Entertainers (3)
  • Male singers (3)
  • Radio talk show hosts (3)
  • African American men (2)
  • African American women (2)
  • Costume (2)
  • Rocking chairs (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Women jazz singers (2)
  • Women musicians (2)
  • African American children (1)
  • African American comedians (1)
  • Band directors (1)
  • Board games (1)
  • Conductors (Music) (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Ethnic costume (1)
  • Fund raisers (1)
  • Fund raising (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Hospital beds (1)
  • Medical instruments and apparatus (1)
  • Motion picture producers and directors (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Native American men (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Racism in popular culture (1)
  • Radio broadcasters (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Surgical plaster casts (1)
  • Tables (1)
  • Television actors and actresses (1)
  • Toys (1)
  • Toy stores (1)
  • Ventriloquists (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • Wigs (1)
  • Yakama Indians (1)
  • (-) Comedians (53)

Subjects, Community

  • LGBTQ+ musicians (2)
  • LGBTQ+ people (2)
  • White lesbians (2)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (2)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (8)
  • New York (N.Y.) (2)
  • Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation (1)

Subjects, People

  • Dexter, Dave (15)
  • Jarvis, Al, 1910-1970 (13)
  • Hope, Bob, 1903-2003 (6)
  • Skelton, Red, 1913-1997 (5)
  • Colonna, Jerry, 1904-1986 (4)
  • Harris, Phil, 1904-1995 (4)
  • Tomlin, Lily (4)
  • Bergen, Edgar, 1903-1978 (3)
  • Berle, Milton (3)
  • Christy, June, 1925-1990 (3)
  • Costello, Lou (3)
  • Crosby, Bing, 1903-1977 (3)
  • Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 (3)
  • Burnett, Carol (2)
  • Carney, Art, 1918-2003 (2)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (2)
  • De Carlo, Yvonne (2)
  • Dorsey, Tommy, 1905-1956 (2)
  • Durante, Jimmy, 1893-1980 (2)
  • Hayes, Peter Lind, 1915-1998 (2)
  • Herman, Woody, 1913-1987 (2)
  • Howard, Eugene (2)
  • Koch, Lisa (2)
  • Martin, Dean, 1917-1995 (2)
  • Platt, Peggy (2)
  • Ryan, Peggy, 1924-2004 (2)
  • Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998 (2)
  • Wynn, Keenan, 1916-1986 (2)
  • Acuff, Roy (1)
  • Allen, Fred, 1896-1955 (1)
  • Anderson, Eddie, 1905-1977 (1)
  • Auerbach, Artie, 1903-1957 (1)
  • Barker, Jess (1)
  • Barker, Jim, 1921- (1)
  • Bennett, Joan, 1910-1990 (1)
  • Benny, Jack, 1894-1974 (1)
  • Bergman, Ingrid, 1915-1982 (1)
  • Bushkin, Joe (1)
  • Charlie, Job (1)
  • Cole, Buddy (1)
  • Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 (1)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (1)
  • Daley, Cass (1)
  • Ellis, Anita, 1920- (1)
  • Ennis, Skinnay (1)
  • Flynn, Ed (1)
  • Garland, Judy (1)
  • Gleason, Jackie, 1916-1987 (1)
  • Haines, Connie, 1921-2008 (1)
  • Howard, Curly Joe, 1910-1993 (1)
  • Howard, Willie, 1886-1949 (1)
  • Jones, Philly Joe (1)
  • Jordan, Louis, 1908-1975 (1)
  • Kaye, Sammy, 1910-1987 (1)
  • Lewis, Jerry, 1926- (1)
  • Logan, Ella, 1913-1969 (1)
  • Looney, Jim (Yakama tribe member) (1)
  • Markham, Pigmeat (1)
  • Martin, Freddy, 1906-1983 (1)
  • Maxwell, Elsa (1)
  • McVea, Jack (1)
  • Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976 (1)
  • Minnie Pearl (1)
  • O'Connor, Rod (1)
  • Powell, Eleanor, 1912-1982 (1)
  • Rayburn, Gene (1)
  • Rich, Buddy, 1917-1987 (1)
  • Russell, Andy, 1919-1992 (1)
  • Simmons, Jean, 1929-2010 (1)
  • Taylor, Johnny (Musician) (1)
  • Thompson, Henry (Yakama tribe member) (1)
  • Tilton, Martha (1)
  • Traill, Sinclair (1)
  • Turner, Jim (Yakama tribe member) (1)
  • Wanger, Walter, 1894-1968 (1)
  • Yallup, Thomas (1)
  • Yallup, William (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (28)
  • 1941 (21)
  • 1950 (15)
  • 1931 (3)
  • 1940 (3)
  • 1946 (3)
  • 1995-11-06 (3)
  • 1935 (2)
  • 1962-07-01 (2)
  • 1962-07-31 (2)
  • 1991 (2)
  • 2000 (2)
  • 1942 (1)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1951-10-28 (1)
  • 1955-06 (1)
  • 1978 (1)
  • 1995-11-03 (1)

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