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ACT UP/KC rally on the steps of City Hall

Image

ACT UP/KC gay pride rally on the steps of City Hall in Kansas City; seven unidentified men are seen (one African American man in white pants, the rest...

Date Published
June-22-1989
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

ACT UP/KC rally on the steps of City Hall

Image

ACT UP/KC gay pride rally on the steps of City Hall in Kansas City; Jon Barnett is standing in front of a microphone, an unidentified white man is...

Date Published
June-22-1989
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Actor Conrad Janis speaking

Image

Actor Conrad Janis speaking during an event for USAir at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel; an unidentified white man is on the left and an...

Date Published
January-1983
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

African American man holding a sign on Grand Boulevard

Image

An African American man standing on the sidewalk with a sign that reads "KPRS Employees Protest [???] Low Wages" on Grand Boulevard; light photo.

Date Published
May-01-1969
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Anti-gay protestors at the March in Washington D.C.

Image

Group of three unidentified anti-gay protestors (all white men) holding up rather well made signs just outside of building's entrance doors and under...

Date Published
October-11-1987
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Boarding the bus to the circus

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Nurses (white women) getting onto a Kansas City Transit Bus after the children have been seated for a trip to the Shrine Circus. The African American...

Date Published
November-01-1963
November-30-1963
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Buck Clayton and Nat Pierce with a large drink

Image

Nat Pierce with Buck Clayton in front of a large advertising sign for Pacharn Natural (liquor), with text: Tu copa natural, and pretending they are...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton, Nat Pierce, Harry Edison, and Jean-Pierre Vignola

Image

Buck Clayton seated outside of a restaurant, possibly in France, Quebec or Switzerland, with Nat Pierce, Harry "Sweets" Edison and Jean-Pierre Vignola...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Cheathams and friend

Image

Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham posing for a photo with an unidentified African American man in a hotel lobby; part of a luggage cart and the front doors...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Congressman Alan Wheat

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Congressman Alan Wheat from Missouri's 5th district waving from the back seat of a convertible during the 1992 Kansas City pride parade; his wife is...

Date Published
1992
Member of
GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection

Couple looking at each other in the eyes

Image

An African American male soldier, wearing dress uniform with his hat in his left hand, stands and looks into the eyes of a African American woman in a...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Dancing to the Rythm Kings

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Unidentified white drag queen competing in a drag ball, with the white male emcee in front of microphone and the Kings of Rythm [sic] on the bandstand...

Date Published
1965
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

Demonstration display across from City Hall

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Small white truck with a full sized bed made up in black sheets set up on the truck bed with a sign that reads (in part) RIP and made to look like a...

Date Published
June-30-1989
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Families in a waiting room

Image

Patients and family (African America and white women and children, one African American man) seated in chairs in a clinic waiting room at Children's...

Date Published
October-01-1966
October-31-1966
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Flirtations by the marquee

Image

Publicity photo of the Flirtations posing by a marquee announcing a performance (Cliff Townsend; Jon Arterton; Jimmy Rutland; Michael Callen; Aurelio...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection

Group photo with signs

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Group photo at the 1992 Kansas City pride parade of a group of white women holding several signs reading "Invisibility equals vulnerability" ; "Sappho...

Date Published
1992
Member of
GLAMA: Linda Wilson 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

Hospital Hill Run volunteer stopping for a photo

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Unidentified African American man volunteering at the Hospital Hill Run. He looks like he's carrying something heavy, but unseen in the photo. Wearing...

Date Published
May-01-1989
May-31-1989
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Jay McShann at the Oslo Jazz Festival

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Jay McShann playing piano and singing into a microphone at Det Apne Teater (The Open Theater) during the Oslo Jazz Festival, Norway; a sign with the...

Date Published
August-1992
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann at the Oslo Jazz Festival

Image

Jay McShann playing piano and singing into a microphone at Det Apne Teater (The Open Theater) during the Oslo Jazz Festival, Norway; a sign with the...

Date Published
August-1992
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann laughing on stage with Joe Williams in Japan

Image

Jay McShann seated at the piano laughing at something Joe Williams just said; Williams is standing by McShann's piano; on stage during the Budweiser...

Date Published
August-1989
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann masters class

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Unidentified white man with a microphone seated next to Jay McShann by a piano during a masters class for the Jazz and Contemporary Music Program...

Date Published
October-16-1996
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann on stage in Toronto

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Jay McShann on stage with a microphone near him; unidentified white male musician in glasses is partly seen behind him along with a red and white...

Date Published
1984
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann on stage with Joe Williams in Japan

Image

Jay McShann and Joe Williams on stage together at the Budweiser Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao, Japan; McShann is at his piano and Williams is...

Date Published
August-1989
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann performing with Jim Galloway in Toronto

Image

Jay McShann playing piano on stage with Jim Galloway during the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival; McShann is facing the right of the photo and Galloway...

Date Published
1984
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

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Member of

  • Jay McShann Collection (20)
  • GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection (9)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (5)
  • GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection (5)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (2)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (2)
  • 1968 Riot Collection (1)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (1)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (1)
  • GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (47)

Genres

  • Snapshots (41)
  • Group portraits (32)
  • Color photographs (31)
  • Black & white photographs (16)
  • Gelatin silver prints (16)
  • Portrait photographs (11)
  • Cityscape photographs (10)
  • Architectural photographs (5)
  • Film negatives (3)
  • Negatives (3)
  • Publicity photographs (2)
  • Slides (2)
  • Transparencies (1)

Time Periods

  • 1981-1990 (19)
  • 1991-2000 (12)
  • 1961-1970 (5)
  • 1971-1980 (4)
  • 1951-1960 (3)
  • 1931-1940 (1)
  • 2001-2010 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (25)
  • Jazz musicians (25)
  • Men, White (24)
  • Pianists (15)
  • Gay men (13)
  • Piano (13)
  • Women, White (13)
  • Banners (12)
  • Microphone (10)
  • Lesbians (9)
  • Jazz musicians, White (6)
  • Streets (6)
  • Advertising (5)
  • Buildings (5)
  • Gay pride parades (5)
  • African American women (4)
  • AIDS activists (4)
  • Automobiles (4)
  • Bisexuals (4)
  • City halls (4)
  • Flags--Political aspects (4)
  • Audiences (3)
  • Demonstrations (3)
  • Double bassists (3)
  • Flags--Social aspects (3)
  • Gay rights (3)
  • Posters (3)
  • Buses (2)
  • Children, White (2)
  • Crowds (2)
  • Double bass (2)
  • Hats (2)
  • Signs and symbols--Social aspects (2)
  • Sound--Equipment and supplies (2)
  • T-shirts--Social aspects (2)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • African American children (1)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Automobiles, Convertible (1)
  • Balloons (1)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Barbershops (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects (1)
  • Beds (1)
  • Bicycles (1)
  • Billiard parlors (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Bus drivers (1)
  • Cameras (1)
  • Chauffeurs (1)
  • Children--Hospital care (1)
  • Circus posters (1)
  • Civil rights movements (1)
  • Community-based social services (1)
  • Cyclists (1)
  • Doors (1)
  • Drag queens (1)
  • Drag shows (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Easels (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Evening gowns (1)
  • Eyeglasses (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Flags--U.S. states (1)
  • Flowers (1)
  • Fruit (1)
  • Gay bars (1)
  • Gay youth--Services for (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Homophobia (1)
  • Homophobia--Religious aspects--Christianity (1)
  • Hospital administrators (1)
  • Hospital patients (1)
  • Hotel lobbies (1)
  • Hotels (1)
  • Interpreters for the deaf (1)
  • Laughter (1)
  • Lawyers (1)
  • Lectures and lecturing (1)
  • Male actors (1)
  • Male musicians (1)
  • Male singers (1)
  • Marquees (1)
  • Masters of ceremonies (1)
  • Military uniforms (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Parades (1)
  • Parks (1)
  • Passengers (1)
  • People with disabilities (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Police (1)
  • Politicians (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Running races (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Sepulchral monuments (1)
  • Shuttle services (1)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (1)
  • Spectators (1)
  • Stage lighting--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Stone walls (1)
  • Stop signs (1)
  • T-shirts (1)
  • Tangerine (1)
  • Television camera operators (1)
  • Traffic signs and signals (1)
  • Trucks (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Volkswagen automobiles (1)
  • Volunteers (1)
  • Volunteer workers in hospitals (1)
  • Waiting rooms (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • Windows (1)
  • Women jazz musicians (1)
  • Women pianists (1)
  • (-) African American men (47)
  • (-) Signs and signboards (47)

Subjects, Community

  • LGBTQ+ activists (13)
  • LGBTQ+ events (13)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (13)
  • African American LGBTQ+ people (12)
  • Gay liberation (12)
  • LGBTQ+ people (10)
  • LGBTQ+ activism (8)
  • LGBTQ+ symbols (8)
  • Gay pride (7)
  • LGBTQ+ demonstrations (7)
  • Rainbow flags (5)
  • White gay men (5)
  • African American gay men (4)
  • Gay political activists (4)
  • LGBTQ+ people (4)
  • AIDS awareness (2)
  • LGBTQ+ Deaf people (2)
  • Pink triangles (2)
  • White lesbians (2)
  • Gay Deaf people (1)
  • Intolerance towards LGBTQ+ people (1)
  • Lesbian political activists (1)
  • LGBTQ+ Christians (1)
  • LGBTQ+ musicians (1)
  • LGBTQ+ youth (1)
  • LGBTQ+ youth centres (1)
  • Red ribbons (AIDS) (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (6)
  • Washington (D.C.) (4)
  • 31st Street,Kansas City (Mo.) (1)
  • Grand Boulevard (1)
  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (1)
  • Oak Street (1)

Subjects, People

  • McShann, Jay (19)
  • Chaney, Mark (2)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (2)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (2)
  • Pierce, Nat (2)
  • Williams, Joe, 1918-1999 (2)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (1)
  • Arterton, Jon (1)
  • Barnett, Jon D. (1)
  • Callen, Michael, 1955-1993 (1)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (1)
  • Edison, Harry, 1915-1999 (1)
  • Font, Aurelio (1)
  • Galloway, Jim (1)
  • Hull, Jim (1)
  • Janis, Conrad (1)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (1)
  • Rutland, Jimmy (1)
  • Sheffield, Leslie, 1910- (1)
  • Spaits, Gerald (1)
  • Townsend, Cliff (1)
  • Vignola, Jean-Pierre (1)
  • Watson, Maurice (Of Counsel) (1)
  • Wheat, Alan, 1951- (1)

Events

  • Budweiser Newport Jazz Festival (1989 : Madarao, Japan) (3)
  • March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation (1993 : Washington, D.C.) (3)
  • Oslo Jazz Festival (1992 : Oslo, Norway) (2)
  • Toronto Jazz Festival (1984 : Toronto, Ont.) (2)
  • Hospital Hill Run (1989 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)
  • National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (1)
  • Sarasota Jazz Festival (3rd : 1982 : Sarasota, Fla.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1981 (7)
  • 1990 (7)
  • 1992 (4)
  • 1971 (3)
  • 1980 (3)
  • 1989-08 (3)
  • 1993-04-25 (3)
  • 1951 (2)
  • 1960 (2)
  • 1984 (2)
  • 1989-06-22 (2)
  • 1989-06-30 (2)
  • 1992-08 (2)
  • 1931 (1)
  • 1940 (1)
  • 1957 (1)
  • 1963-11-01 (1)
  • 1963-11-30 (1)
  • 1965 (1)
  • 1966-10-01 (1)
  • 1966-10-31 (1)
  • 1969-05-01 (1)
  • 1970-12-12 (1)
  • 1970-12-13 (1)
  • 1972-08 (1)
  • 1981-03-08 (1)
  • 1982 (1)
  • 1983-01 (1)
  • 1987-10-11 (1)
  • 1989-05-01 (1)
  • 1989-05-31 (1)
  • 1991 (1)
  • 1991-06 (1)
  • 1996-10-16 (1)
  • 2000 (1)
  • 2004-02-03 (1)

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