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Bobbi Johnson and Charles O. Finley visiting a patient

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Bobbi Johnson, Miss USA, and Kansas City Athletics owner Charles O. Finley delivering a souvenir megaphone to white boy patient with bandages on his...

Date Published
March-01-1965
May-31-1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Bobbi Johnson and Charles O. Finley visiting a patient

Image

Bobbi Johnson, Miss USA, and Kansas City Athletics owner Charles O. Finley delivering a souvenir megaphone to white girl patient seated in a hospital...

Date Published
March-01-1965
May-31-1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Bobbi Johnson visiting with patients

Image

Bobbi Johnson, Miss USA, delivering Kansas City Athletics souvenir megaphones to three white patients (two girls, one boy) while visiting Children's...

Date Published
March-01-1965
May-31-1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Bobbi Johnson visiting with two boys

Image

Bobbi Johnson, Miss USA, delivering Kansas City Athletics souvenir megaphones to two white boys outside the entrance to the hospital. She's standing...

Date Published
March-01-1965
May-31-1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Dancing trio at the Colony Club

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Three undientified dancers (one man, one woman, one drag queen, all white) at the Colony Club in Kansas City; the drag queen has on a tiara, matching...

Date Published
November-1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Dean Cowles, Lou Archer and others at an unnamed event

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Group photo during and unidentified event with (left to right) Dean Cowles, Mary Peterson, Lou Archer (wearing a tiara), unidentified white woman...

Date Published
April-01-1969
April-30-1969
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Looking fierce at the Colony Club

Image

Three unidentified white drag queens in a row posing for a photo in front of the tiled wall outside the Colony Club in Kansas City; the first one is...

Date Published
November-1968
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Three posing for a photo

Image

Three unidentified white drag queens posing together for a photo in front of the tiled wall outside the Colony Club in Kansas City; the one on the...

Date Published
November-1968
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection
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  • Group portraits
  • Tiaras

Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (5)
  • GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection (3)

Types

  • photographs (8)

Genres

  • Snapshots (5)
  • Black & white photographs (4)
  • Color photographs (4)
  • Gelatin silver prints (4)
  • Slides (3)
  • (-) Group portraits (8)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (8)

Subjects

  • Women, White (6)
  • Men, White (5)
  • Beauty contestants (4)
  • Children, White (4)
  • Children--Hospital care (4)
  • Hospital patients (4)
  • Megaphones (4)
  • Sports--Collectibles (4)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects (3)
  • Boys (3)
  • Drag queens (3)
  • Gay bars (3)
  • Gay men (3)
  • Girls (2)
  • Hospital beds (2)
  • Older men (2)
  • Sports team owners (2)
  • Tile facades (2)
  • Bandages and bandaging (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Filipino American women (1)
  • Gloves (1)
  • Handbags (1)
  • Hospital administrators (1)
  • Hospital buildings (1)
  • Hospitals--Employees (1)
  • Lesbians (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Smoking (1)
  • Windows (1)
  • (-) Tiaras (8)

Subjects, Community

  • LGBTQ+ people (3)
  • White gay men (3)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (3)
  • White lesbians (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (3)

Subjects, People

  • Johnson, Bobbi (Beauty contest winner) (4)
  • Finley, Charles Oscar, 1918-1996 (2)
  • Archer, M. Luisita Benavides (Merla Luisita Benavides), 1933- (1)
  • Cowles, Dean (1)
  • Diddle, Nancy (1)
  • Herst, Karen (1)
  • Peterson, Mary (Hospital employee) (1)

Date Published

  • 1965-03-01 (4)
  • 1965-05-31 (4)
  • 1968-11 (2)
  • 1964-11 (1)
  • 1969-04-01 (1)
  • 1969-04-30 (1)

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