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Ahmad Alaadeen in an army uniform

Image

Ahmad Alaadeen (Richard White) in Army uniform looking straight at the photographer. The hat has had red ribbing hand painted with color tint.

Date Published
1957
1959
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Award being given

Image

Two African American soldiers shake hands at a table as one hands the other a trophy. The soldier handing the trophy over has a shoulder patch from...

Date Published
December-1955
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Band playing at the Jockey Jazz Club

Image

A band sits on stage likely playing jazz at the Jockey Club, 10th and Paseo in Kansas City, Missouri. Farthest to the left is Bill Jones playing drums...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Betty Miller and Milt Abel at a check-in table

Image

Milt Abel and Bettye Miller standing in front what seems to be a check-in table for an unidentified event. Two older women are seated behind the table...

Date Published
July-1959
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel at the zoo

Image

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel posing together for a photo while at the zoo. Abel has an arm around Miller's shoulders and they're standing in front of a...

Date Published
1958
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller smiling at the camera while playing piano. Milt Abel is playing double bass behind her. There's a salt shaker on the piano in front of...

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller smiling while playing piano and looking over to the right of the photo. Milt Abel is playing double bass behind her. There's a salt...

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

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller seated at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown (unseen in photo) on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double...

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

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller standing at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely...

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

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller standing at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely...

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

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

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

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

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

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

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

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

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

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man, likely Milt Abel, on double...

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

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown (unseen in photo) on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double...

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

Bettye Miller in a trio

Image

Bettye Miller on piano, Milt Abel on bass, and an unidentified white man on drums, performing. Miller is facing the camera and the drummer's face is...

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

Bettye Miller Trio posing for a photo with their album

Image

Members of the Bettye Miller Trio (Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and Terry Basso) behind the desk of an unidentified white man posing for a photo with...

Date Published
1956
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller Trio receiving a copy of their album

Image

Members of the Bettye Miller Trio (Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and Terry Basso) behind the desk of an unidentified white man receiving their album "A...

Date Published
1956
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller with Milt Abel

Image

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel standing together in a carpeted room between two curtained windows. Miller is wearing a stole with corsage. Abel is...

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

Bettye Miller with twelve others around a table

Image

Bettye Miller (standing, center) with twelve unidentified others (African American and white men and women) around a table in a club or restaurant...

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

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

Image

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

Bill Leeds and Walt Bodine interview an unknown guest on WDAF's show Insight

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Bill Leeds and Walt Bodine interview an unidentified African American man on WDAF's show Insight. Bodine and Leeds appear in three quarter profile...

Date Published
1960
1965
Member of
Walt Bodine Collection

Bob, Leata, and LaRue go for a stroll

Image

Bob, Leata and LaRue walking arm-in-arm along an outdoor wooded trail. Bob is taking a drink. All three have hats with wide brims.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Buck Clayton and company

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Count Basie standing with Dicky Wells, Buddy Tate, Buck Clayton, Jo Jones, Freddie Green and Earle Warren in Harlem, New York.

Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

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  • African American men
  • 1951-1960

Member of

  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (31)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (19)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (8)
  • Priscilla Bowman Collection (7)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (7)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (4)
  • Jay McShann Collection (3)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (3)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (3)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (2)
  • Walt Bodine Collection (2)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (1)
  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (1)
  • Lucile Bluford Collection (1)
  • Ted Malone Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (93)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (89)
  • Gelatin silver prints (89)
  • Group portraits (66)
  • Snapshots (55)
  • Portrait photographs (28)
  • Publicity photographs (7)
  • Color photographs (4)
  • Portraits (2)
  • Architectural photographs (1)
  • Promotional photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (6)
  • 1941-1950 (3)
  • (-) 1951-1960 (93)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (54)
  • Jazz musicians (54)
  • African American women (46)
  • Pianists (33)
  • Men, White (31)
  • Double bassists (28)
  • Piano (21)
  • Double bass (18)
  • Jazz musicians, White (17)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (16)
  • Musical instruments (16)
  • Drum set (11)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (10)
  • Porches (9)
  • Saxophonists (9)
  • Microphone (8)
  • Musicians (7)
  • Trumpet players (7)
  • Soldiers (6)
  • Women, White (6)
  • College students (4)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (4)
  • Teachers (4)
  • Signs and signboards (3)
  • Television talk show hosts (3)
  • Automobiles (2)
  • Bands (Music) (2)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (2)
  • Buildings (2)
  • Children, White (2)
  • Dancers (2)
  • Entertainers (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Literature--Societies, etc. (2)
  • Military uniforms (2)
  • Older men (2)
  • Older women (2)
  • Politicians (2)
  • Postal service--Employees (2)
  • Salt shakers (2)
  • Sound recordings (2)
  • Television programs (2)
  • Women singers (2)
  • Advertising (1)
  • African American boys (1)
  • African American children (1)
  • Airplanes (1)
  • Apartment houses (1)
  • Armies--Uniforms (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Awards (1)
  • Band directors (1)
  • Banners (1)
  • Baseball players (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Berets (1)
  • Bouquets (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Chairs (1)
  • Children--Hospital care (1)
  • Christmas trees (1)
  • Crosscut saws (1)
  • Cymbals (1)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (1)
  • Evening gowns (1)
  • Fruit (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Hospital patients (1)
  • Hospitals--Employees (1)
  • Interviewing on radio (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Jeep automobile (1)
  • Letters (1)
  • Magicians (1)
  • Male musicians (1)
  • Mobile cranes (1)
  • Music journalists (1)
  • Norway spruce (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Posters (1)
  • Postmasters (1)
  • Professional athletes (1)
  • Radio broadcasting (1)
  • Radio stations (1)
  • Radio talk show hosts (1)
  • Radio talk shows (1)
  • Reporters and reporting (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • Seminarians (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Socks (1)
  • Tangerine (1)
  • Tap dancers (1)
  • Trails (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Violin (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • (-) African American men (93)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (13)
  • Chicago (Ill.) (2)
  • Miami (Fla.) (2)
  • Europe (1)
  • Harlem (New York, N.Y.) (1)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)
  • Morristown (N.J.) (1)
  • New Orleans (La.) (1)
  • Tulsa (Okla.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (26)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (17)
  • Brown, Corky (9)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (5)
  • Basso, Terry (4)
  • Buckner, Milt (3)
  • Edwards, Ralph, 1913-2005 (3)
  • Lutcher, Nellie (3)
  • McShann, Jay (3)
  • Adderley, Cannonball (2)
  • Ballard, Hank (2)
  • Bolling, Richard, 1916-1991 (2)
  • Bowman, Priscilla (2)
  • Dexter, Dave (2)
  • Foster, Curtyse (2)
  • Griddine, Eugene (2)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (2)
  • Leeds, Bill (2)
  • Love, Bunnie (Bumps) (2)
  • Nolan, Bill (Drummer) (2)
  • Price, Elmer, 1917-2004 (2)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (1)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (1)
  • Bland, Ted (1)
  • Bodine, Walt, 1920- (1)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (1)
  • Condon, Eddie, 1905-1973 (1)
  • Dickenson, Vic (1)
  • Fisher, Williams (Pianist) (1)
  • Gayten, Paul, 1920-1991 (1)
  • Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 (1)
  • Gray, Wardell, 1921-1955 (1)
  • Green, Freddie, 1911-1987 (1)
  • Hawkins, Coleman (1)
  • Hillelson, Jeffrey Paul, 1919-2003 (1)
  • Hinton, Patricia (1)
  • Johnson, Lonnie, 1894-1970 (1)
  • Jones, Willie, 1929-1991 (1)
  • Jordan, Alonzo F. (1)
  • Jordan, Leon M. (Leon Mercer), 1905-1970 (1)
  • Jordan, Orchid, 1910-1995 (1)
  • Lovett, Baby (1)
  • Lyttelton, Humphrey, 1921-2008 (1)
  • McMillan, Allan W., 1900-1991 (1)
  • Miller, Big (1)
  • Nathan, Syd, 1904-1968 (1)
  • Pate, Edward (1)
  • Power, Vic, 1927-2005 (1)
  • Salisbury, George, 1918-1986 (1)
  • Smith, Frank, 1932-1999 (1)
  • Stringer, Dean (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Taylor, Myra (1)
  • Trumbauer, Bill, 1923-1978 (1)
  • Vinson, Eddie (1)
  • Warren, Earle (1)
  • Wells, Dicky, 1907-1985 (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)
  • Wright, John M., 1867- (1)
  • Wright, Josephine, 1876- (1)

Events

  • Newport Jazz Festival (1956) (1)

Date Published

  • 1960 (49)
  • 1951 (47)
  • 1957 (9)
  • 1956 (5)
  • 1959 (5)
  • 1958 (4)
  • 1952-12-31 (3)
  • 1955 (3)
  • 1964 (3)
  • 1949 (2)
  • 1952 (2)
  • 1941 (1)
  • 1953 (1)
  • 1953-09 (1)
  • 1954 (1)
  • 1954-08-03 (1)
  • 1955-12 (1)
  • 1957-01 (1)
  • 1958-08-12 (1)
  • 1959-07 (1)
  • 1960-09-24 (1)
  • 1960-10 (1)
  • 1964-03-01 (1)
  • 1965 (1)
  • 1969 (1)
  • 1979 (1)

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