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Albert Preston at podium of panel forum on "Family standards and parental controls" at the KC Mace Conference, 1967

Image

Albert Preston (standing at podium) with seated panel: Emilie Levin, unidentified man, unidentified woman, Donald Smith, and Richard E. Davis; on...

Date Published
October-1967
Member of
Martha Jane Starr Collection

Art Bratt with his nieces and grand niece

Image

Art Bratt holding his grand niece by the hand with his nieces behind them on a sidewalk; the street, cars, houses, and a stop sign are seen.

Date Published
April-1993
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Art Bratt, Bill Todd and woman at a restaurant

Image

Unidentified white woman in glasses and a red jacket seated at a restaurant booth with Art Bratt and Bill Todd beside her posing for a photo; Bratt...

Date Published
April-1993
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

At a Christmas buffet

Image

Three unidentified white men, two with plates, at a Christmas buffet table looking over the food; other people are seen standing and seated behind...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Bad lighting and a short skirt

Image

Two unidentified African American drag queens posing in bad lighting at an unidentified venue in Kansas City; the one on the right is wearing a blonde...

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

Beryl Berry's

Image

Mr. and Beryl Berry in red western shirts with American Royal and Saddle and Sirloin patches stand outside the SS club house with daughter in white.

Date Published
May-1950
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Big night out at the Colony Club

Image

Two unidentified white drag queens posing side by side for a photo against the tile wall outside the Colony Club in Kansas City; the one on the right...

Date Published
November-1965
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Bill Todd in a driveway

Image

Distant shot of Bill Todd in a driveway by a car with Art Bratt's niece and her daughter ; the house is fully visible.

Date Published
April-1993
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Bill Todd with Art Bratt's niece and her daughter in the driveway

Image

Bill Todd standing in a driveway with Art Bratt's niece and her daughter; one garage door is open and a white car is seen inside and there's a black...

Date Published
April-1993
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Bill Todd with Art Bratt's niece and her daughter in the driveway

Image

Bill Todd posing for a photo in a driveway with Art Bratt's niece and her daughter; a house and black Mitsubishi with Missouri plates is behind them.

Date Published
April-1993
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Black and white

Image

Group of four white men seated at an unidentified venue in Kansas City; three are unidentified and the man on the far left is likely Harold Miller...

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

Black and white

Image

Unidentified pair of white drag queens standing together for a photo outside the tiled wall of the Colony Club in Kansas City; the woman on the left...

Date Published
November-1965
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Black and white again

Image

Unidentified pair of white drag queens standing together for a photo outside the tiled wall of the Colony Club in Kansas City; the woman on the right...

Date Published
November-1965
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Bob ("Hole") Bobby Green, Horace Holmes and friend

Image

Seated at a table with white tablecloth at an unidentified venue in Kansas City are (from left) Bob "Hole", Bobby Green (likely), an unidentified...

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

Book signing

Image

Unidentified white male author seated at a circular table signing a book for an unidentified white woman who is handing him a second book; two signs...

Date Published
1995
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Booths at Pride Festival

Image

LGCCKCs booth at Pride Festival offering a basketball toss game; another booth to the right is seen along with several unidentified white men.

Date Published
1999
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

By the jukebox

Image

Unidentified white drag queen being held as if dancing by an unidentified white man in black while standing near the jukebox at the Forrest Ballroom...

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

Cabaret Riviera hostesses greeting Tony Bennett

Image

Cabaret Riviera hostesses greeting Tony Bennett at the Downtown Airport in Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
September-1961
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Candid moment around the tables at the Forest Ballroom

Image

Group of at least six people, including four white drag queens, largely unidentified except for "Dr. Garcia" on the far left in a green checked jacket...

Date Published
1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Casual wear at the Forest Ballroom

Image

Two unidentified white men posing against a wall at the Forest Ballroom in Kansas City; a man wearing a dark jack, white shirt and no tie with his arm...

Date Published
November-1965
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Caveman at the Forest Ballroom

Image

Unidentified white man in a caveman costume (long black wig, fake fangs, leopard skin outfit) menacing the camera with two hands in the air by his...

Date Published
October-1967
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

City Council

Image

H. Roe Bartle stands with City Council during mayoral inauguration in Council Chambers at KC City Hall.

Date Published
April-11-1955
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Club patrons

Image

Club patrons enjoying drinks at an unidentified venue including Tony Battaglia (far left, slightly out of frame) and others, including a man with a...

Date Published
March-1961
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

Club staff in white aprons

Image

Three unidentified white male bar/wait staff in white shirts, black ties, and white aprons around their waists at either the Colony Club or Arabian...

Date Published
March-1961
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

Club staff in white aprons

Image

Three unidentified white male bar/wait staff in white shirts, black ties, and white aprons around their waists at either the Colony Club or Arabian...

Date Published
March-1961
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

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Member of

  • GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection (78)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (34)
  • GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection (26)
  • Martha Jane Starr Collection (23)
  • GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection (18)
  • GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection (5)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (5)
  • Allan Bell Collection (4)
  • Baron Missakian Collection (4)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (198)

Genres

  • Color photographs (150)
  • Slides (104)
  • Portrait photographs (66)
  • Snapshots (56)
  • Black & white photographs (41)
  • Gelatin silver prints (41)
  • Film transparencies (16)
  • Stereographs (16)
  • Film negatives (5)
  • Negatives (5)
  • (-) Group portraits (198)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (119)
  • 1991-2000 (28)
  • 1951-1960 (18)
  • 1981-1990 (14)
  • 1971-1980 (10)
  • 1921-1930 (4)
  • 1941-1950 (4)
  • 1931-1940 (2)
  • 2001-2010 (1)

Subjects

  • Men, White (125)
  • Gay men (118)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects (100)
  • Gay bars (99)
  • Drag queens (73)
  • Women, White (60)
  • Lesbians (41)
  • Tile facades (29)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (26)
  • Public relations (16)
  • Smoking (16)
  • Handbags (14)
  • Special events (14)
  • Cigarettes (13)
  • Congresses and conventions (12)
  • Dancers (12)
  • African American men (10)
  • Forums (Discussion and debate) (10)
  • Dance (9)
  • City managers (8)
  • Automobiles (7)
  • Bands (Music) (7)
  • Decks (Architecture, Domestic) (7)
  • Beer (6)
  • Conversation (6)
  • Families (6)
  • Gloves (6)
  • Halloween costumes (6)
  • Trees (6)
  • Zoos (6)
  • Beer bottles (5)
  • Bridges (5)
  • Buildings (5)
  • Fur garments (5)
  • Gay pride parades (5)
  • Mayors (5)
  • Parks (5)
  • Signs and signboards (5)
  • Volunteer workers in community development (5)
  • Awards (4)
  • Decoration and ornament (4)
  • Drag kings (4)
  • Drag shows (4)
  • Dwellings (4)
  • Girls (4)
  • Mothers and daughters (4)
  • Nieces (4)
  • Parade floats (4)
  • Parades (4)
  • Pickup trucks (4)
  • Sweaters (4)
  • Tables (4)
  • Women social reformers (4)
  • Aprons (3)
  • Balloons (3)
  • Bartenders (3)
  • Boots (3)
  • Buffets (Cooking) (3)
  • Children, White (3)
  • Crowds (3)
  • Driveways (3)
  • Hats (3)
  • Motion picture producers and directors (3)
  • Parties (3)
  • Pearls (3)
  • Public speaking (3)
  • Stoles (Clothing) (3)
  • Streets (3)
  • Tiaras (3)
  • White people (3)
  • African American musicians (2)
  • Ashtrays (2)
  • Audiences (2)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Employees (2)
  • Books (2)
  • Chimpanzees (2)
  • Cigarette smokers (2)
  • Food (2)
  • Jackets (2)
  • Jazz musicians (2)
  • Kissing (2)
  • Laughter (2)
  • Masters of ceremonies (2)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (2)
  • Motion picture locations (2)
  • Municipal government (2)
  • Musicians (2)
  • Pin-back buttons (2)
  • Radio interviews (2)
  • Roses (2)
  • Street-railroads (2)
  • Teenagers (2)
  • Toasts (2)
  • Uncles (2)
  • Vodka (2)
  • Waiters (2)
  • Wheelchairs (2)
  • Actresses (1)
  • Advertising (1)
  • Advertising executives (1)
  • African American guitarists (1)
  • African American jazz musicians (1)
  • Airplaines (1)
  • Alcoholic beverages (1)
  • Amateur plays (1)
  • Antique and classic cars (1)
  • Armed Forces--Officers (1)
  • Art calendars (1)
  • Authors (1)
  • Authors--Autographs (1)
  • Award presentations (1)
  • Banners (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
  • Bartending (1)
  • Baseball caps (1)
  • Beer cans (1)
  • Beer neon signs (1)
  • Calendars (1)
  • Calico (1)
  • Camera operators (1)
  • Cameras (1)
  • Candles (1)
  • Carnival games (1)
  • Cash registers (1)
  • Chauffeurs (1)
  • Checks (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Christmas decorations (1)
  • City council members (1)
  • Clowns (1)
  • Clubs (1)
  • Community centers (1)
  • Costume jewelry (1)
  • Display of merchandise (1)
  • Doors (1)
  • Earrings (1)
  • Employees (1)
  • Factories (1)
  • Festivals (1)
  • Flags (1)
  • Flags--Social aspects (1)
  • Floods (1)
  • Folding chairs (1)
  • Fund raising (1)
  • Garages (1)
  • Gay couples (1)
  • Gays (1)
  • Gay singers (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Hugging (1)
  • Independent bookstores (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Jukeboxes (1)
  • Lawn chairs (1)
  • Legislators (1)
  • Litter (Trash) (1)
  • Locomotives (1)
  • Mimes (1)
  • Motion picture cameras (1)
  • Motion pictures (1)
  • Necklaces (1)
  • Neckties (1)
  • Overalls (1)
  • Parent and teenager (1)
  • Parking garages (1)
  • Photography of the nude (1)
  • Picnic grounds (1)
  • Picnics (1)
  • Pirates (1)
  • Pizza (1)
  • Pointing (Gesture) (1)
  • Portriat painting, American (1)
  • Prehistoric peoples (1)
  • Public health (1)
  • Racism against indigenous peoples (1)
  • Racism in popular culture (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Ribbons (1)
  • Roofs (1)
  • Same-sex marriage (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Scarves (1)
  • Secretaries (1)
  • Shelving for books (1)
  • Sidewalks (1)
  • Speakers (1)
  • Staircases (1)
  • Street signs (1)
  • Sunglasses (1)
  • Sunspaces (1)
  • Tattooed people (1)
  • Tattooing (1)
  • Teenagers--Sexual behavior (1)
  • Teenagers and adults (1)
  • Telephone (1)
  • Vests (1)
  • Water towers (1)
  • Weddings (1)
  • Whiskey (1)
  • Windows (1)

Subjects, Community

  • White LGBTQ+ people (123)
  • White gay men (107)
  • LGBTQ+ people (103)
  • LGBTQ+ events (27)
  • White lesbians (27)
  • LGBTQ+ people (21)
  • LGBTQ+ activists (16)
  • Gay pride (7)
  • LGBTQ+ activism (7)
  • African American gay men (6)
  • African American LGBTQ+ people (6)
  • Gay liberation (6)
  • LGBTQ+ symbols (3)
  • Rainbow flags (3)
  • Lesbian wheelchair users (2)
  • Camp (Gay culture) (1)
  • LGBTQ+ authors (1)
  • Pink triangles (1)
  • Women's bookshops (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (10)
  • Grandview (Mo.) (1)
  • Swope Park (1)
  • (-) Kansas City Metropolitan Area (198)

Subjects, People

  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (19)
  • Starr, Martha Jane, 1906-2011 (10)
  • Starr, John Wilbur, 1905-2000 (9)
  • Garcia, Dr. (5)
  • Disney, Walt, 1901-1966 (4)
  • LeMay, Barbara (4)
  • Lombardo, Joe (4)
  • Reborne, Lois (4)
  • Todd, Bill (Gay rights activist) (4)
  • Apple, Gary (3)
  • Benson, Inez (3)
  • Berkley, Sandy (3)
  • Gorman, Anita B. (3)
  • Ising, Rudolf, 1903-1992 (3)
  • O'Malley, Joseph (Activist) (3)
  • Perry, Susan L. (3)
  • Rosenberg, Stanton (3)
  • Starr, John Philip (3)
  • Wheeler, Charles B. (Charles Bertan), 1926- (3)
  • Arnold, Skip (2)
  • Barrows, Leroy (2)
  • Bartle, Harold Roe, 1901-1974 (2)
  • Berkley, Richard L., 1931- (2)
  • Bratt, Art (2)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (2)
  • Davis, Richard E. (2)
  • Hardy, Gary (Drag queen) (2)
  • Henning, Paul, 1911-2005 (2)
  • Iwerks, Ub, 1901-1971 (2)
  • Kreamer, John H., Mrs. (2)
  • Starr, Barry (2)
  • Allen, Al (1)
  • Allen, G. G. (Drag queen) (1)
  • Andrew, Deanna (1)
  • Battaglia, Tony (1)
  • Beard, Beth Elaine (1)
  • Belesakos, Georgia (1)
  • Bell, Allan (1)
  • Bennett, Tony, 1926- (1)
  • Berger, Dick (1)
  • Blair, James T., 1902-1962 (1)
  • Borman, Anita B. (1)
  • Carmody, John A., Mrs. (1)
  • Carrol, Billy (1)
  • Chenoweth, Tom (1)
  • Claire, Bernice, 1907-2003 (1)
  • Cookingham, Gene (1)
  • Cookingham, Sandy (1)
  • Crabb, Jarred V. (Jarred Vincent) (1)
  • Darby, Harry, 1895-1987 (1)
  • Davis, Harry S. (Harry Scott), 1897-1980 (1)
  • Eib, George (1)
  • Embery, Joan (1)
  • Fouts, Jamie (1)
  • Frazier, Helen (1)
  • Garrey, Charles (1)
  • Gavin, Thomas J. (1)
  • Gentry, Reed (1)
  • Green, Bobby (1)
  • Hall, Bruce (Activist) (1)
  • Harman, Hugh, 1903-1982 (1)
  • Holmes, Horace (Kansas City resident) (1)
  • Hopkins, Glen J. (1)
  • Hurd, Joseph R. (1)
  • Hurlbut, Gordon, Mrs. (1)
  • Johnson, R. Dean, Mrs. (1)
  • Kemp, William E. (William Ewing), 1889-1968 (1)
  • Kirkpatrich, Frank B., Mrs. (1)
  • Kloepper, Adolph (1)
  • Lackey, Lee (1)
  • Laird, John Landon, 1895-1970 (1)
  • Leavengood, Colleen (1)
  • Lee, Terry (Drag queen) (1)
  • Levin, Emilie (1)
  • Lyon, William McAtee (Red) (1)
  • Mace, Leslie (1)
  • MacLaine, Shirley, 1934- (1)
  • Martinez, Cassie (1)
  • Maxwell, Max (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Michelle (Drag queen) (1)
  • Miller, Josef (Singer) (1)
  • Moore, Adam Lee (1)
  • Nichols, Miller, 1911-2000 (1)
  • O'Hara, Edwin V. (Edwin Vincent), 1881-1956 (1)
  • Phalen, Gary (1)
  • Phillips, Philip R., 1903-1992 (1)
  • Preston, Albert (1)
  • Ray, Mickey (1)
  • Redmond, Joseph K., 1913-1996 (1)
  • Reed, Ray (1)
  • Ryan, Frances Hatman (1)
  • Shafer, Drew (1)
  • Sharp, Katherine (1)
  • Souttar, Fred (1)
  • Sturm, Karen (1)
  • Symington, Stuart, 1901-1988 (1)
  • Theis, Frank A., 1890-1965 (1)
  • Tobin, Patrick (1)
  • Tuccillo, John (Nightclub owner) (1)
  • Walden, Lois (1)
  • Warrick, Ruth (1)
  • White, Richard L. (1)
  • Woods, Claude (1)

Events

  • Pride Festival (Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1968-11 (25)
  • 1967-10 (17)
  • 1999 (16)
  • 1964-11 (13)
  • 1964 (10)
  • 1965-11 (8)
  • 1966-11 (8)
  • 1965 (6)
  • 1961 (5)
  • 1961-03 (5)
  • 1963-02 (5)
  • 1964-12 (5)
  • 1993-04 (5)
  • 1954-08-13 (4)
  • 1967-10-03 (4)
  • 1970 (4)
  • 1987 (4)
  • 1922 (3)
  • 1923 (3)
  • 1971-05-24 (3)
  • 1977-07-02 (3)
  • 1981 (3)
  • 1984-02-11 (3)
  • 1991 (3)
  • 1995 (3)
  • 1954-10 (2)
  • 1955-04-11 (2)
  • 1957-06-23 (2)
  • 1976-05-24 (2)
  • 1999-12-25 (2)
  • 1921-02 (1)
  • 1921-03 (1)
  • 1936 (1)
  • 1937 (1)
  • 1949 (1)
  • 1950 (1)
  • 1950-04-21 (1)
  • 1950-05 (1)
  • 1951-07 (1)
  • 1952 (1)
  • 1952-11 (1)
  • 1953-06-09 (1)
  • 1954-06 (1)
  • 1959-09 (1)
  • 1959-11 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1960-11 (1)
  • 1961-02 (1)
  • 1961-09 (1)
  • 1962-10 (1)
  • 1964-01 (1)
  • 1965-02 (1)
  • 1965-03 (1)
  • 1966-05-16 (1)
  • 1967-05-24 (1)
  • 1968-10 (1)
  • 1975 (1)
  • 1977 (1)
  • 1978 (1)
  • 1979-05-08 (1)
  • 1981-04-28 (1)
  • 1985-05 (1)
  • 1986 (1)
  • 1989 (1)
  • 1998 (1)
  • 2000 (1)
  • 2005-05-07 (1)

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