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Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and unidentified drummer

Image

Bettye Miller (piano), Milt Abel (double bass), and an unidentified drummer perform for a small audience during Miller's birthday party.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, Lois Robers, and George Nader

Image

Bettye Miller, seated at a piano with Milt Abel holding his double bass. George Nader is leaning on the piano with Lois Roberts standing next to him...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, Wallace Jones, and guitarist

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on stage with Milt Abel on double bass, Wallace Jones on drums, and an unidentified white man seated and playing guitar...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, Wallace Jones, and guitarist

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on stage with Milt Abel on double bass, Wallace Jones on drums, and an unidentified white man seated and playing guitar...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Terry Basso, and Milt Abel with large group

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Betty Miller with Terry Basso and Milt Abel posing for a picture with a large group of other performers. One group is wearing black and white striped...

Date Published
1956
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller's birthday cake

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Unidentified man holding up Bettye Miller's birthday cake to the camera. Another man is partially seen at the side.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller's birthday cake

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Photo of Bettye Miller's birthday cake showing the side.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Close up of Bettye Miller's hands

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Close up of Bettye Miller's hands as she plays piano.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Deborah Brown singing

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Deborah Brown singing into a microphone held close to her mouth. She's facing the left of the photo.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking

Image

Photo of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to a large crowd with a drawing of mountains and the words "I've Been to the Mountain Top" in the wide...

Date Published
1968
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Drummer and saxophonist for the play "Negroid Evolution"

Image

Unidentified drummer and saxophonist playing music for the play "Negroid Evolution" produced and directed by Bettye Miller. A third person can...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Gondola at Tomorrowland

Image

Two unidentified African American women, one pointing at the camera, inside a gondola at Tomorrowland at Disneyland Park. People can be seen below...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Gospel choir on stage

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Unidentified Gospel choir members (all women) in white robes singing with unidentified man in dark robes and cap singing in front of them. Part of the...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Graduation photos of Bettye Miller

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Set of three photographs of Bettye Miller in a graduation cap and gown. She is looking forward (top), to the right (center), and to the left (bottom).

Date Published
1945
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Group of five men

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A group of five unidentified African American men standing in a row along a wall at Bettye Miller's birthday party.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Holiday photo of Bettye Miller and Milt Abel

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Holiday photo of Bettye Miller playing piano while facing the camera and Milt Abel playing bass behind her. A sign on the back of the piano reads...

Date Published
1957
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Holiday promotional image of Bettye Miller and Milt Abel

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Holiday promotional image of Bettye Miller and Milt Abel. Miller is wearing a white gown and holding a small piano on a tray in one outstretched hand...

Date Published
1957
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Holiday promotional image of Bettye Miller and Milt Abel

Image

Holiday promotional image of Bettye Miller and Milt Abel. Miller is wearing a white gown and holding a small piano on a tray in one outstretched hand...

Date Published
1957
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Holiday promotional photo of Bettye Miller and Milt Abel

Image

Holiday promotional photo of Bettye Miller playing piano with Milt Abel playing bass behind her. The image has been tilted back to the left for effect...

Date Published
1957
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Marquee listing the Bettye Miller Trio

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Snapshot from Phoenix of the marquee announcing the Bettye Miller Trio on the sign for the Stein and Sirloin steakhouse. Buildings and cars can be...

Date Published
1961
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Maryland Hotel at night

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Night shot of the Maryland Hotel building showing related street-level businesses: an eponymous drug store, the Cloister Inn (nightclub), and The...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Men and women at a bar

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Unidentified men and women at the Stein & Sirloin bar. A white woman is standing next to a seated white man with a drink in front of him at the left...

Date Published
1961
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Mike Ning and Milt Abel courtside

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Mike Ning seated next to Milt Abel courtside at a basketball game that was a fundraiser for the "Women's Jazz Festival". The teams were the all male...

Date Published
November-20-1977
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Milt Abel and Bill Drybread with their Great Danes

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Milt Abel with his dog, Yogi, in a living room with Bill Drybread and his dog. Both dogs are Great Danes. A young boy is crouched down beside Drybread...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Milt Abel and his double bass

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Milt Abel playing double bass and wearing a bow tie and t-shirt for the event that reads "Women's Jazz Festival". Held in Memorial Hall, Kansas City...

Date Published
March-19-1978
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

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  • (-) Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (215)

Types

  • photographs (215)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (161)
  • Gelatin silver prints (161)
  • Snapshots (158)
  • Group portraits (151)
  • Portrait photographs (55)
  • Color photographs (51)
  • Architectural photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1971-1980 (74)
  • 1961-1970 (64)
  • 1951-1960 (42)
  • 1941-1950 (25)
  • 1981-1990 (8)
  • 1991-2000 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (169)
  • African American jazz musicians (162)
  • African American men (152)
  • African American women (140)
  • Pianists (130)
  • Double bassists (103)
  • Piano (79)
  • Double bass (77)
  • Men, White (62)
  • Jazz musicians, White (39)
  • Musical instruments (36)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (32)
  • Drum set (32)
  • Women, White (32)
  • Audiences (28)
  • Microphone (18)
  • Jazz singers (9)
  • Living rooms (9)
  • Porches (9)
  • Actors (8)
  • Guitarists (8)
  • Musicians (8)
  • Automobiles (7)
  • Saxophonists (7)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (6)
  • Guitar (6)
  • Actresses (5)
  • Birthday cakes (5)
  • Saxophone (5)
  • Singers (5)
  • Buildings (4)
  • Girls (4)
  • Vibraphone (4)
  • Academic costume (3)
  • African American children (3)
  • Children, White (3)
  • Hats (3)
  • Hotels (3)
  • Men (3)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (3)
  • Signs and signboards (3)
  • Sound recordings (3)
  • T-shirts (3)
  • Trumpet (3)
  • Trumpet players (3)
  • Cotton (2)
  • Cymbals (2)
  • Dancers (2)
  • Dog owners (2)
  • Dogs (2)
  • Enslaved persons (2)
  • Female impersonators (2)
  • Flute (2)
  • Flute players (2)
  • Great Dane (2)
  • Living room furniture (2)
  • Nuns (2)
  • Older women (2)
  • Photographers (2)
  • Restaurants (2)
  • Salt shakers (2)
  • African American musicians (1)
  • Amusement parks (1)
  • Applause (1)
  • Arts fund raising (1)
  • Asian Americans (1)
  • Band directors (1)
  • Big bands (1)
  • Blues musicians (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Calla lilies (1)
  • Cameras (1)
  • Champagne (Wine) (1)
  • Chinese Americans (1)
  • Choirs (Music) (1)
  • Civil rights workers (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Entertaining (1)
  • Envelopes (Stationery) (1)
  • Fans (Persons) (1)
  • Fund raising (1)
  • Fur garments (1)
  • Gay actors (1)
  • Gondolas (1)
  • Hand (1)
  • Hispanic Americans (1)
  • Jayhawk (1)
  • Keyboards (Music) (1)
  • Labor unions--Officials and employees (1)
  • LGBTQ actors (1)
  • Male singers (1)
  • Motels (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Music--Posters (1)
  • Music festivals (1)
  • Music teachers (1)
  • Neon signs (1)
  • Older men (1)
  • Orators (1)
  • Organ (Musical instrument) (1)
  • Organists (1)
  • Philodendrons (1)
  • Photobooths (1)
  • Posters (1)
  • Radio personalities (1)
  • Rubble (1)
  • Score reading and playing (1)
  • Soul musicians (1)
  • Station wagons (1)
  • Students (1)
  • Sunglasses (1)
  • Tambourine (1)
  • Television--Receivers and reception (1)
  • Television personalities (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Wedding costume (1)
  • Weddings (1)
  • Women singers (1)
  • Xylophone (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Chicago (Ill.) (1)
  • Disneyland (Calif.) (1)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)
  • Philadelphia (Pa.) (1)
  • Phoenix (Ariz.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (119)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (91)
  • Brown, Corky (9)
  • Basso, Terry (5)
  • Lester, Ketty (3)
  • Hamza, Luqman (2)
  • Hicks, John, 1941-2006 (2)
  • Jones, Wallace (Drummer) (2)
  • Ning, Mike (2)
  • Willis, Jerry (Musician) (2)
  • Wood, Elise (2)
  • Bartee, Al (1)
  • Brown, Deborah, 1952- (1)
  • Brown, Sonny (1)
  • Bryant, Betty, 1929- (1)
  • Comer, Carol (1)
  • Daniels, Billy, 1915-1988 (1)
  • Dixon, Willie, 1915-1992 (1)
  • Drybread, Bill (Trombonist) (1)
  • Ensley, Harold, 1912-2005 (1)
  • Gregg, Diane (1)
  • Hardiman, Baggy, 1913-1999 (1)
  • Heath, Percy, 1923-2005 (1)
  • Husted, Beverly (1)
  • Husted, Ken (1)
  • Johnson, Lonnie, 1894-1970 (1)
  • Jones, Carmell (1)
  • Jordan, Louis, 1908-1975 (1)
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 (1)
  • McFadden, Lonnie (1)
  • McFadden, Ronnie (1)
  • McPartland, Marian (1)
  • Miller, Bettye Jo (1)
  • Morgan, Stanley (Guitarist) (1)
  • Nader, George, 1921-2002 (1)
  • Owen, Michael (Musician) (1)
  • Padilla, Rod (1)
  • Roberts, Lois, 1941- (1)
  • Robinson, Scott (1)
  • Smith, Dottie (Vocalist) (1)
  • Smith, Frank, 1932-1999 (1)
  • Smith, Richard J., -1974 (1)
  • Stauffer, Donald W. (1)
  • Tindley, George, 1938-1996 (1)
  • Wilson, Bob (Saxophonist) (1)

Events

  • Women's Jazz Festival (Kansas City, Kan.) (4)

Date Published

  • 1961 (52)
  • 1970 (49)
  • 1976 (36)
  • 1971 (32)
  • 1980 (32)
  • 1951 (30)
  • 1960 (30)
  • 1949 (11)
  • 1941 (10)
  • 1950 (10)
  • 1957 (7)
  • 1981 (7)
  • 1990 (7)
  • 1956 (4)
  • 1978-03-19 (3)
  • 1965-04-11 (2)
  • 1968 (2)
  • 1973 (2)
  • 1943 (1)
  • 1945 (1)
  • 1952 (1)
  • 1958 (1)
  • 1959-07 (1)
  • 1966 (1)
  • 1967 (1)
  • 1967-05 (1)
  • 1970-05-13 (1)
  • 1977-11-20 (1)
  • 1984 (1)
  • 1991 (1)
  • 2000 (1)

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