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Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, his wife, and Evelyn Dubrow

Image

Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson and his wife greeting Evelyn Dubrow, head of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, at a function in Washington...

Date Published
January-1974
Member of
Richard W. Bolling Collection

Audience at Bettye Miller's birthday party performance

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Audience member seated during Bettye Miller's birthday party performance.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Award recipients from Children's Mercy Hospital

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Award recipients for 45 years and 5 years of service at Children's Mercy Hospital (African American women and men and white women and men) posing for...

Date Published
January-01-1975
December-31-1975
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Awards dinner

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Hospital Staff Awards Ceremony held at Crown Center Hotel. Far Left to right: unidentified African American waiter kneeling down to speak to Dr...

Date Published
February-09-1974
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Awards dinner group photo

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Group of award recipients (African American and white women ; white men) at the hospital Staff Awards Ceremony at Crown Center posed together for a...

Date Published
February-09-1974
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Awards dinner group photo

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Group of award recipients (African American and white women ; white men) at the hospital Staff Awards Ceremony at Crown Center posed together for a...

Date Published
February-09-1974
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Awards dinner table

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High table during the Children's Mercy Hospital Staff Awards Ceremony. Seated left to right are Dr. Robert Fairchild, Mrs. Robert Fairchild, Bill...

Date Published
February-09-1974
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Barry White

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Publicity photo of Barry White looking forward and smiling. White is holding one hand up to his chest and is wearing a white suit jacket and shirt...

Date Published
1975
1980
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bearded man in front of an audience

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Unidentified bearded African American man speaking or performing in front of an audience at Bettye Miller's birthday party. A suitcase is at his feet...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Betty Miller performing on stage

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Bettye Miller playing piano on stage and looking over to the right of the photo. Milt Abel is partially seen playing bass beside the piano. Part of a...

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel

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Bettye Miller, piano, with Milt Abel, bass, performing on stage together.

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel

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Bettye Miller, piano, with Milt Abel, bass, performing on stage together.

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel

Image

Bettye Miller, piano, with Milt Abel, bass, performing on stage together.

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel

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Bettye Miller on piano performing on stage with Milt Abel on double bass next to her.

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel in a car

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Bettye Miller behind the wheel of a car with Milt Abel leaning toward her from the passenger seat. She's turned toward him and smiling. Photo taken...

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel in a hallway

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Bettye Miller and Milt Abel in a dimly lit hallway at an unidentified location. Abel is a few paces behind Miller and has one hand in his pants pocket...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel in a hallway

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Bettye Miller and Milt Abel in a hallway at an unidentified venue. The Ladies' room door is seen behind them. Abel is looking toward Miller who is...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel on stage

Image

Bettye Miller on piano with Milt Abel on bass performing together on stage. Part of a drum set can also be seen. Both are smiling widely.

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel on stage

Image

Bettye Miller on piano with Milt Abel on bass performing together on stage. Part of a drum set can also be seen.

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing

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Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing with an unidentified drummer. A large philodendron is behind the drummer. An extra bow is lying on the piano.

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel playing in a living room

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Bettye Miller on piano, Milt Abel on bass performing in a living room. An unidentified African American man is playing drums behind them in the...

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel with another woman

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Bettye Miller, Milt Abel and an unidentified woman (possibly Miller's daughter, BettyeJo) seated at a small table at an unidentified club. All have...

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

Bettye Miller playing on stage

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a stage and leaning over toward Milt Abel playing double bass. An unidentified African American man is on drums behind...

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

Bettye Miller playing on stage

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a stage and facing the right of the photo. Milt Abel is playing double bass and an unidentified African American man is...

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

Bettye Miller playing piano during her birthday party

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Bettye Miller playing piano during her birthday party. Two unidentified men, one standing, are behind her watching as she plays.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

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Member of

  • Jay McShann Collection (81)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (63)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (58)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (14)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (7)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (7)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (7)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (6)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (5)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (4)
  • Allan Bell Collection (2)
  • Ed Dix Collection (2)
  • Priscilla Bowman Collection (2)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (259)

Genres

  • Snapshots (199)
  • Group portraits (183)
  • Color photographs (158)
  • Gelatin silver prints (97)
  • Black & white photographs (95)
  • Portrait photographs (64)
  • Publicity photographs (20)
  • Negatives (3)
  • Clippings (1)
  • Photomechanical prints (1)
  • Promotional photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1981-1990 (4)
  • 1961-1970 (2)
  • (-) 1971-1980 (259)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (153)
  • Jazz musicians (152)
  • Men, White (88)
  • Pianists (76)
  • African American women (68)
  • Piano (68)
  • Double bassists (50)
  • Women, White (48)
  • Jazz musicians, White (46)
  • Double bass (40)
  • Drum set (30)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (27)
  • Audiences (26)
  • Musical instruments (21)
  • Microphone (19)
  • Golfers (17)
  • Saxophonists (17)
  • Awards (16)
  • Jazz singers (15)
  • Golf carts (14)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (13)
  • Hospitals--Employees (11)
  • Dinners and dining (10)
  • Guitarists (10)
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  • Trumpet players (10)
  • Big bands (8)
  • Conversation (7)
  • Guitar (7)
  • Singers (7)
  • Tables (7)
  • Trumpet (7)
  • Automobiles (6)
  • Band directors (6)
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  • Clarinet (6)
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  • Living rooms (6)
  • Trees (6)
  • Trombonists (6)
  • Cigarettes (5)
  • Clarinetists (5)
  • Golf courses (5)
  • Hospital administrators (5)
  • Jackets (5)
  • Physicians (5)
  • Alcoholic beverages (4)
  • Award presentations (4)
  • Bands (Music) (4)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (4)
  • Long hair (4)
  • Politicians (4)
  • Posters (4)
  • Signs and signboards (4)
  • T-shirts (4)
  • Waiters (4)
  • Advertising (3)
  • Banners (3)
  • Centerpieces (3)
  • Children, White (3)
  • Cigarette smokers (3)
  • Dancers (3)
  • Eyeglasses (3)
  • Golf clubs (Sporting goods) (3)
  • Male singers (3)
  • Men's clothing (3)
  • Physicians' spouses (3)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (3)
  • Smoking (3)
  • Sofas (3)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (3)
  • Sunglasses (3)
  • Trombone (3)
  • African American children (2)
  • Birthday parties (2)
  • Bottles (2)
  • Boys (2)
  • Cameras (2)
  • Clergy (2)
  • Dining rooms (2)
  • Dwellings (2)
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  • Photographers (2)
  • Restaurants (2)
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  • Tobacco pipes (2)
  • Vibraphone (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • African American Muslims (1)
  • African American teenage boys (1)
  • Antiques (1)
  • Arts fund raising (1)
  • Autographs (1)
  • Awnings (1)
  • Baked products (1)
  • Bandages and bandaging (1)
  • Barbecuing (1)
  • Basketball players (1)
  • Basketballs (1)
  • Beards (1)
  • Benches (1)
  • Birthday cakes (1)
  • Black people (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Businessmen (1)
  • Canoes and canoeing (1)
  • Chairs (1)
  • Children--Hospital care (1)
  • Chinese Americans (1)
  • Christmas decorations (1)
  • Clocks and watches (1)
  • Coats (1)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Cymbals (1)
  • Dance (1)
  • Dollar, American (1)
  • Drinking glasses (1)
  • Easels (1)
  • Eiffel Tower (Paris, France) (1)
  • Engineers (1)
  • Entertaining (1)
  • Factories (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Fathers and daughters (1)
  • Flute (1)
  • Flute players (1)
  • Football players (1)
  • Fountains (1)
  • Glassware (1)
  • Harmonica players (1)
  • Hospital beds (1)
  • Hospital patients (1)
  • Hotels (1)
  • Infants (1)
  • Keyboard instruments (1)
  • Laboratories (1)
  • Labor unions--Officials and employees (1)
  • Lectures and lecturing (1)
  • Lobbyists (1)
  • Men (1)
  • Military uniforms (1)
  • Motion picture producers and directors (1)
  • Municipal officials and employees (1)
  • Music--Posters (1)
  • Music festivals (1)
  • Neckties (1)
  • Newspapers (1)
  • Painting (1)
  • Palaces (1)
  • Parents (1)
  • Philodendrons (1)
  • Playgrounds--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Prizes (1)
  • Professional athletes (1)
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  • Restaurateurs (1)
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  • Scores (1)
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  • Sound--Equipment and supplies (1)
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  • Wine bottles (1)
  • Wine glasses (1)
  • Women motion picture producers and directors (1)
  • Work environment (1)
  • (-) African American men (259)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (16)
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  • New York (N.Y.) (1)
  • Nice (France) (1)
  • Toronto (Ont.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • McShann, Jay (71)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (37)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (33)
  • Gunther, Paul (14)
  • Durrett, Warren (7)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (6)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (5)
  • Jones, Eric (Administrator) (4)
  • Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983 (3)
  • Bolling, Richard, 1916-1991 (3)
  • Boyer, Pierre, 1942-1997 (3)
  • Glenn, Tyree (3)
  • Glidden, Bill (3)
  • Masse, Jean-Marie (3)
  • Smull, Ned (3)
  • Sullivan, Maxine, 1911-1987 (3)
  • Taylor, Billy, 1921-2010 (3)
  • Vinson, Eddie (3)
  • Weaver, Margaret (3)
  • Bolcom, William (2)
  • Bowman, Priscilla (2)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (2)
  • Coleman, Bill, 1904-1981 (2)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (2)
  • Dreher, Richard (Doctor) (2)
  • Fairchild, Robert C. (2)
  • Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 (2)
  • Jones, Wallace (Drummer) (2)
  • Mills, Solomon (2)
  • Newman, David, 1933-2009 (2)
  • Ramey, Gene (2)
  • Sutton, Ralph, 1922-2001 (2)
  • Accord, Lea (1)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (1)
  • Aykroyd, Dan (1)
  • Banarse, Pratap (1)
  • Bartee, Al (1)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (1)
  • Belt, Carol (1)
  • Belushi, John (1)
  • Blanc, Roger (1)
  • Bohannon, Lee (1)
  • Bolling, Claude (1)
  • Carroll, Josephine (1)
  • Clearwater, Eddy (1)
  • Coleman, Lily (1)
  • Collette, Buddy, 1921-2010 (1)
  • Comer, Carol (1)
  • Davis, Eddie, 1922-1986 (1)
  • Davis, Miles (1)
  • Dennis, Fats (1)
  • Dubrow, Evelyn, 1911-2006 (1)
  • Duke, George (1)
  • Dye, Coots, 1912-1998 (1)
  • Findaly, George, 1948- (1)
  • Foster, Curtyse (1)
  • Gates, Ollie (1)
  • Glenn, Roger (1)
  • Goodman, John, 1952- (1)
  • Goodwin, Charles (Vocalist) (1)
  • Gregg, Diane (1)
  • Grimes, Tiny, 1916-1989 (1)
  • Grover, Terry (1)
  • Jackson, Calvin (1)
  • Jenkins, Bob (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Johnson, Budd (1)
  • Johnson, Floyd, 1922-1981 (1)
  • Johnson, Gus, 1913-2000 (1)
  • Jones, Carmell (1)
  • Kaminsky, Max, 1908-1994 (1)
  • King, Alphonzo (1)
  • King, Charley (1)
  • Kunene, Sipho (1)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (1)
  • Magic Slim (Musician) (1)
  • Margolian, Abraham (Doctor) (1)
  • McCarty, Bob (1)
  • McFadden, Lonnie (1)
  • McFadden, Ronnie (1)
  • McGhee, Charles E. (1)
  • McGranihan, Mike (1)
  • McPartland, Marian (1)
  • Meyers, Richard (Guitarist) (1)
  • Mills, Ethel (1)
  • Montgomery, Little Brother, 1906-1985 (1)
  • Moore, H.B. (Domino Corporation employee) (1)
  • Morgan, Stanley (Guitarist) (1)
  • Muddy Waters, 1915-1983 (1)
  • Muhammad, John (1)
  • Muhammad, Nathaniel (1)
  • Ning, Mike (1)
  • Parenti, Tony, 1900-1972 (1)
  • Price, Don (Drummer) (1)
  • Ribière, Jacques (Musician) (1)
  • Ricker, Bruce, 1942-2011 (1)
  • Rush, Bobby (1)
  • Shabazz, Muhammad (1)
  • Sims, Zoot (1)
  • Smith, Art (Arthur T.), 1918-2011 (1)
  • Sutherland, Herman R. (1)
  • Tarlow, Victoria (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Taylor, Joyce (Singer) (1)
  • Taylor, Little Johnny, 1943-2002 (1)
  • Taylor, Otis (1)
  • Tindley, George, 1938-1996 (1)
  • Toliver, Dorothy (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)
  • Washington, Booker T., 1909-1992 (1)
  • Washington, Carl (1)
  • Wellington, Valerie (1)
  • White, Barry, 1944-2003 (1)
  • Williams, Jackie, 1933- (1)
  • Williams, Nate, 1950- (1)
  • Willis, Chick (1)
  • Witherspoon, Jimmy (1)
  • Wynne, Philippé (1)

Events

  • Women's Jazz Festival (Kansas City, Kan.) (4)
  • Cheatham Jam Session (1)
  • Monterey Jazz Festival (1980 : Monterey, Calif.) (1)
  • Nice Festival (1976 : Nice, France) (1)
  • Wichita Jazz Festival (1972 : Wichita, Kan.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1980 (113)
  • 1971 (108)
  • 1978 (47)
  • 1977 (43)
  • 1976 (28)
  • 1974-02-09 (9)
  • 1975 (7)
  • 1980-12 (6)
  • 1978-12-01 (4)
  • 1970 (3)
  • 1971-01 (3)
  • 1978-03-19 (3)
  • 1980-04 (3)
  • 1972 (2)
  • 1972-02-07 (2)
  • 1972-08 (2)
  • 1974-01 (2)
  • 1975-01-01 (2)
  • 1975-12-31 (2)
  • 1976-04-18 (2)
  • 1978-05-01 (2)
  • 1979 (2)
  • 1990 (2)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1967 (1)
  • 1971-04-22 (1)
  • 1971-07 (1)
  • 1971-12 (1)
  • 1972-02-11 (1)
  • 1972-04-30 (1)
  • 1972-12 (1)
  • 1973 (1)
  • 1973-03-11 (1)
  • 1973-12-01 (1)
  • 1973-12-06 (1)
  • 1973-12-31 (1)
  • 1974-03-01 (1)
  • 1974-03-31 (1)
  • 1974-06 (1)
  • 1974-11-24 (1)
  • 1977-11-20 (1)
  • 1978-09 (1)
  • 1979-08 (1)
  • 1979-11 (1)
  • 1980-10 (1)
  • 1982 (1)
  • 1984 (1)

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