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Boy standing on the sidewalk in a flat cap

Image

An unidentified African American boy stands on the street wearing a flat cap in Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
May-1954
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Boy standing on the sidewalk in a flat cap and holding his thumb in his pocket

Image

An unidentified African American boy stands on the street wearing a flat cap and holding his thumb in his pocket in Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
May-1954
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Bystanders at the rear of crowd

Image

Group of bystanders at the rear of the crowd at Parade Park. In the center right of the photo, two African American women are smiling toward the...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Children on the playground

Image

Children (An African American girl, a white boy, and two white girls) seen playing on the seesaw and swings on the playground. Stadium steps in...

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

Children playing on the swings

Image

One white girl being pushed on the swings on the playground by a Junior Volunteer with five other children (two African American girls, two white...

Date Published
August-01-1966
August-31-1966
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital 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 grounds of Western Seminary

Image

An large unidentified co-ed group of African American men, women, and children and one white man seated in the center on the ground in the photograph...

Date Published
1929
1949
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Dancing Cobras performing in Old Northeast

Image

The Dancing Cobras, a dance troupe of African American children, perform in the middle of the street in Old Northeast in Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Dolores Hobley and friends at the Negro League Baseball Museum

Image

Dolores Hobley (left) and two other African Americans stand arm in arm in front of the wall in front of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas...

Date Published
1990
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Family posing for a photo seated on a couch

Image

An unidentified African American man and woman sit on a sofa smiling at the photographer as the woman holds a baby on her lap. The man has his left...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Four policemen and children in residential area

Image

Four white policemen and children (African American and white boys) in residential area, standing among vehicles. The officer in the center of the...

Date Published
April-09-1968
Member of
1968 Riot Collection

Group of children behind apartment buildings

Image

Group of boys (two are African America, the rest white) and one white girl standing around in the back of a tenement area with laundry hanging from...

Date Published
1901
1910
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Group of children lined up for "Santa Claus in August" outside the Uptown Theater

Image

Group of children lined up for "Santa Claus in August" (Joseph Redmond as Santa) outside the Uptown Theater at 37th and Broadway, Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
August-1954
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Group of children lined up with Joseph Redmond for "Santa Claus in August" outside the Uptown Theater

Image

Group of children lined up with Joseph Redmond dressed as Santa for "Santa Claus in August" outside the Uptown Theater at 37th and Broadway, Kansas...

Date Published
August-1954
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Harriet West helping young child on a tricycle

Image

Nurse Harriet West (likely) crouching down to help young African American boy riding a tricycle on the outdoor patio.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Harriet West with two boys

Image

Nurse Harriet West crouching on the patio speaking with two toddler boys. The white boy is standing and the African American boy is on a tricycle.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Harriet West with two boys

Image

Nurse Harriet West on the patio with two toddler boys. The white boy is standing and the African American boy is on a tricycle. West is crouched down...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Joseph Redmond with a group of children lined up to see "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" outside the Uptown Theater

Image

Joseph Redmond dressed as Santa with a group of children lined up to see the film "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" as part of "Santa Claus in August"...

Date Published
August-1961
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Lincoln High School students

Image

A group photograph of unidentified African American students and teacher standing in rows on the steps of Lincoln High School in Kansas City, Missouri...

Date Published
1926
1936
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Missouri Baptist Young People's Department of African American Women's Convention

Image

A group photograph of the Missouri Baptist Young People's Department of African American Women's Convention just in front of the porch of Goins Hall...

Date Published
July-23-1945
July-28-1945
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Mother and her children

Image

A studio portrait of smiling unidentified African American woman with a baby lying on its stomach to the left and a toddler girl seated on the right.

Date Published
1931
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Nurse Deskins with young children on the patio

Image

Nurse Deskins bent over to help two toddlers (African American and white boys) trying to ride a tricycle on the outdoor patio. Two other white...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Nurse Deskins with young children on the patio

Image

Nurse Deskins on an outdoor patio with young children. Two white boys are standing and an African American boy is on a tricycle.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Nurse Deskins with young children on the patio

Image

Nurse Deskins with young patients (one African American boy, the rest white girls and boys) on the patio of Children's Mercy Hospital. The child in...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

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  • Kansas City (Mo.)

Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (14)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (13)
  • 1968 Riot Collection (5)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (4)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (1)
  • GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection (1)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (39)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (32)
  • Gelatin silver prints (29)
  • Snapshots (29)
  • Group portraits (24)
  • Color photographs (7)
  • Portrait photographs (2)
  • Slides (2)
  • Transparencies (2)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (12)
  • 1921-1930 (7)
  • 1951-1960 (7)
  • 1941-1950 (5)
  • 1931-1940 (3)
  • 1991-2000 (3)
  • 1901-1910 (1)
  • 1971-1980 (1)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • Boys (21)
  • Children, White (17)
  • Girls (13)
  • African American women (12)
  • Women, White (11)
  • Hospital patients (10)
  • African American men (9)
  • Children--Hospital care (9)
  • Nurses (9)
  • Men, White (7)
  • Toddlers (6)
  • Tricycles (6)
  • Civil rights movements (5)
  • Theaters (4)
  • Hospital buildings (3)
  • Infants (3)
  • Ambulances (2)
  • Crowds (2)
  • Demonstrations (2)
  • Playgrounds--Equipment and supplies (2)
  • Police (2)
  • Seminarians (2)
  • African American teenage boys (1)
  • African American teenage girls (1)
  • Antiques (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Baseball players (1)
  • Brothers and sisters (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Cities and towns (1)
  • College students (1)
  • Community centers (1)
  • Dance companies (1)
  • Dwellings (1)
  • Face painting (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Fences (1)
  • Fountains (1)
  • Gay men (1)
  • Gay rights (1)
  • High school students (1)
  • Hospital administrators (1)
  • Hospitals--Employees (1)
  • Hotels (1)
  • Laundry (1)
  • Lesbians (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Mother and child (1)
  • Pedestrians (1)
  • Picnics (1)
  • Politicians (1)
  • Potato chips (1)
  • Ribbons (1)
  • Seesaw (1)
  • Slums (1)
  • Snack foods (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Storefronts (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Students (1)
  • Swings (1)
  • Teenagers (1)
  • Tenement houses (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • Uniforms (1)
  • Vandalism (1)
  • Volunteers (1)
  • Volunteer workers in community development (1)
  • Volunteer workers in hospitals (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • Wild boar (1)
  • (-) African American children (39)

Subjects, Community

  • African American LGBTQ+ people (1)
  • Gay liberation (1)
  • LGBTQ+ activism (1)
  • LGBTQ+ activists (1)
  • LGBTQ+ community centres (1)
  • LGBTQ+ events (1)
  • LGBTQ+ people (1)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Broadway Boulevard (4)
  • Parade Park (2)
  • Vine Street (1)
  • (-) Kansas City (Mo.) (39)

Subjects, People

  • Santa Claus (Fictitious character) (3)
  • West, Harriet (3)
  • Bolling, Richard, 1916-1991 (1)
  • Redmond, Joseph K., 1913-1996 (1)
  • Stockwell, John F. (1)

Date Published

  • 1921 (6)
  • 1930 (6)
  • 1950 (4)
  • 1968-04-09 (4)
  • 1941 (3)
  • 1953-09 (2)
  • 1954-05 (2)
  • 1954-08 (2)
  • 1961-08 (2)
  • 1964-05-18 (2)
  • 1966-08-01 (2)
  • 1966-08-31 (2)
  • 1995-01-01 (2)
  • 1995-12-31 (2)
  • 1901 (1)
  • 1910 (1)
  • 1926 (1)
  • 1929 (1)
  • 1931 (1)
  • 1936 (1)
  • 1945-07-23 (1)
  • 1945-07-28 (1)
  • 1949 (1)
  • 1952-05-28 (1)
  • 1965 (1)
  • 1968-04-10 (1)
  • 1970 (1)
  • 1971 (1)
  • 1980 (1)
  • 1990 (1)
  • 1991 (1)
  • 1999-06 (1)
  • 2000 (1)

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