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1946 Mercury

Image

An unidentified African American woman with her back to the photographer, reaches her left hand across the hood of a 1946 Mercury Sedan to reach her...

Date Published
1946
1949
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

1946 Mercury

Image

A photograph of a parked 1946 Mercury sedan with the driver's side door open. Two unidentified African American people, a man and a woman, are on the...

Date Published
1946
1949
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

African American woman sitting on a kitchen stool

Image

Unidentified, African American woman sitting on a stool in the corner of a kitchen. The woman is smiling toward the camera while holding a cup.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Lucile Bluford Collection

Baton twirlers

Image

African American female baton twirlers perform on the court of the gymnasium of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Bettye Miller and others at a club

Image

Bettye Miller (third from the left) at a table with four unidentified African American women, an unidentified African American man, and speaking with...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller in a long white dress

Image

Bettye Miller on stage wearing a long white dress with floral accents. Facing the camera and smiling.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller in a white dress

Image

Bettye Miller posing on stage in a white dress with floral elements. Facing the camera.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller with three others at a club

Image

Bettye Miller (left) and three unidentified women seated around a table at a club. All but one looking at the camera. The two women on the right have...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller with three others at a club

Image

Bettye Miller in a light colored dress with long gloves and smoking a cigarette seated at a table in an unidentified club with an unidentified woman...

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

Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong

Image

Billie Holiday straightening a tie for Louis Armstrong in a publicity photo shoot in Hollywood, California. Armstrong is holding a trumpet in his...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bridget, Louise, and Darnella visit Sportree Reed's Music Bar

Image

Three African American women, Bridget, Louise and Darnella, smile at the photographer as they are seated at a counter at Sportree Reed's Music Bar...

Date Published
September-01-1948
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Chorus gathered for a photo in a parlor

Image

A group photograph of a co-ed African American chorus with an unidentified white male choral director standing and crouching in rows in a crowded...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Classroom setting at Western Seminary

Image

An African American male instructor wearing a three-piece suit, stands in the center back teaching clerical skills to a class of African American co...

Date Published
1949
1951
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Co-ed group by the porch of Western Seminary

Image

Four rows of an African American co-ed group of the Literary Society just in front of the porch of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in...

Date Published
1941
1959
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Co-ed group of Western Seminary students

Image

An unidentified African American co-ed group standing in a "V" formation for a photograph at Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas...

Date Published
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

co-ed group on the grounds and porch of Western Seminary

Image

An unidentified African American co-ed group of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The front row of girls are...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

co-ed group on the grounds and porch of Western Seminary

Image

An unidentified African American co-ed group of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The front row of boys are...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Co-ed group on the steps of Western Seminary

Image

An unidentified African American co-ed group photograph on the steps of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. In...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Co-ed group photo on the grounds and steps of Western Seminary

Image

An unidentified African American co-ed group at the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The first row crouches down...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Couple cuddling on a couch

Image

An African American airman, with his eyes closed and his hat propped back on his head, sits on a couch with his right arm around the shoulders of a...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Couple standing in front of a screened-in porch

Image

An African American couple, a soldier and a woman, stand outside of a house with a screened-in porch.

Date Published
March-09-1945
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Couple standing outside of a stucco home

Image

An African American soldier and an unidentified African American woman stand outside a stucco home next to a two-tone car.

Date Published
April-08-1942
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Diners smile at the photographer

Image

An unidentified group of three African American men and two African American women smile as they share a meal inside an unidentified diner. Two of the...

Date Published
1939
1941
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Dr. Perry being honored with a plaque

Image

Dr. John Edward Perry, wearing a long jacket and pinstripe pants stands with his right side to the photographer on the left side of the photograph on...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Eva Oldham, Ahmad Alaadeen's mother

Image

Eva Oldham, Ahmad Alaadeen's mother, in a photograph made of an earlier photograph with damage.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

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  • African American women
  • 1941-1950

Member of

  • Dolores Hobley Collection (66)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (17)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (6)
  • Brian Thurn Collection (5)
  • Lucile Bluford Collection (4)
  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (2)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (1)
  • Betty Crow Collection (1)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (1)
  • Priscilla Bowman Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (105)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (103)
  • Gelatin silver prints (103)
  • Group portraits (60)
  • Snapshots (53)
  • Portrait photographs (34)
  • Publicity photographs (5)
  • Color photographs (2)

Time Periods

  • 1931-1940 (7)
  • 1951-1960 (7)
  • 1961-1970 (1)
  • (-) 1941-1950 (105)

Subjects

  • African American men (57)
  • Jazz musicians (15)
  • African American jazz musicians (13)
  • Academic costume (11)
  • College students (11)
  • Pianists (9)
  • African American children (8)
  • College graduates (8)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (7)
  • Military uniforms (7)
  • Actors (6)
  • Automobiles (6)
  • Jazz singers (6)
  • Men, White (6)
  • Actresses (5)
  • Seminarians (5)
  • Audiences (4)
  • Buildings (4)
  • Cigarette smokers (4)
  • Soldiers (4)
  • Bouquets (3)
  • Choirs (Music) (3)
  • Choral conductors (3)
  • Girls (3)
  • Hats (3)
  • Infants (3)
  • Teachers (3)
  • Trumpet players (3)
  • Women, White (3)
  • Airmen (2)
  • Cameras (2)
  • Conductors (Music) (2)
  • Cotton (2)
  • Dwellings (2)
  • Enslaved persons (2)
  • Families (2)
  • Guitar (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Literature--Societies, etc. (2)
  • Nuns (2)
  • Piano (2)
  • Students (2)
  • Wedding costume (2)
  • Weddings (2)
  • African American mothers (1)
  • African American musicians (1)
  • African American teenage girls (1)
  • Baby carriages (1)
  • Baton twirling (1)
  • Boats and boating (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Brick roads (1)
  • Champagne (Wine) (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • City managers (1)
  • Clubs (1)
  • College teachers (1)
  • Colocasia (1)
  • Composers (1)
  • Corsages (1)
  • Costume (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Diners (Restaurants) (1)
  • Dinners and dining (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (1)
  • Evening gowns (1)
  • Gardens (1)
  • Homecoming (1)
  • Liberians (1)
  • Living rooms (1)
  • Men (1)
  • Military chaplains (1)
  • Mother and child (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Pancakes, waffles, etc (1)
  • Photographs (1)
  • Physicians (1)
  • Pinball machines (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Portraits, Group (1)
  • Quiltmakers (1)
  • Radio (1)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (1)
  • Sailors (1)
  • Shorthand--Study and teaching (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Stores, Retail (1)
  • Swings (1)
  • Tambourine (1)
  • Thatched buildings (1)
  • Toddlers (1)
  • Triangle (Musical instrument) (1)
  • Typewriters (1)
  • Typewriting--Study and teaching (1)
  • Wedding anniversaries (1)
  • Women household employees (1)
  • Women singers (1)
  • (-) African American women (105)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (34)
  • Delaware (1)
  • Detroit (Mich.) (1)
  • Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1)
  • Liberia (1)
  • Minneapolis (Minn.) (1)
  • Saint Louis (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (8)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (3)
  • Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 (3)
  • Holmes, D. A. (Mrs.) (2)
  • Wright, Josephine, 1876- (2)
  • Bluford, Lucile H. (1)
  • Bowman, Priscilla (1)
  • Brown, Ray, 1926-2002 (1)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (1)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (1)
  • Fitzgerald, Ella (1)
  • Fulson, Lowell (1)
  • Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 (1)
  • Jacobs, Mary Virginia (1)
  • Jemima, Aunt, 1897-1950 (1)
  • Jordan, Orchid, 1910-1995 (1)
  • Kilroy, Marilyn (1)
  • Oldham, Eva (1)
  • Perry, John Edward, 1870-1962 (1)
  • Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981 (1)
  • Wright, John M., 1867- (1)

Date Published

  • 1950 (62)
  • 1941 (60)
  • 1949 (13)
  • 1945 (6)
  • 1946 (6)
  • 1951 (5)
  • 1939 (4)
  • 1960 (4)
  • 1931 (3)
  • 1947 (3)
  • 1947-09-04 (2)
  • 1948 (2)
  • 1950-12 (2)
  • 1952 (2)
  • 1942-04-08 (1)
  • 1945-03-09 (1)
  • 1945-03-13 (1)
  • 1945-07-23 (1)
  • 1945-07-28 (1)
  • 1947-11-27 (1)
  • 1948-09-01 (1)
  • 1959 (1)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1970 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • 2000 (1)

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