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Children in a music lesson

Image

Classroom of students (three African American boys, the rest white girls and boys) who are mostly all in wheelchairs during a music lesson. Most...

Date Published
1941
1950
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

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

Girl standing on the hood of a Pontiac

Image

An unidentified African American man crouches down in front of a parked Pontiac sedan, likely 1949 or 1950. A young African American girl stands on...

Date Published
1949
1951
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Good friends

Image

Two unidentified kids in summer clothes grin as they stand with their arms around each other's shoulder on the steps to a house.

Date Published
1941
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Group of women and children seated around Josephine Wright and Mary Virginia Jacobs

Image

A group of African American women and children sit on a striped couch. Mary Virginia Jacobs (seated middle), and Josephine Wright (seated far right)...

Date Published
1939
1941
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Jackie and Bobby

Image

Jackie and Bobby at 4 years old. The boy is dressed as a policeman.

Date Published
1942
1942
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Laughing child

Image

An unidentified African American baby looking to his left and laughing.

Date Published
1941
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Learning to walk

Image

An unidentified African American toddler, wearing a hat and coat, sits in a walker on a sidewalk near a street. A fire hydrant is behind her. A car is...

Date Published
1941
1950
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

Scene from "Negroid Evolution"

Image

Scene from the play "Negroid Evolution" produced and directed by Bettye Miller. A group of men and women standing on stage and looking out to the...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Scene from "Negroid Evolution"

Image

Scene from the play "Negroid Evolution" produced and directed by Bettye Miller. Two women and a man are standing in a group speaking to each other; an...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Sugar Chile Robinson

Image

Sugar Chile Robinson sitting on the front of a piano with one leg crossed over the other. Robinson is looking up and smiling.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Sugar Chile Robinson

Image

Sugar Chile Robinson standing in front of a piano with his hands on the keys. Robinson is turning forward and smiling.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Sugar Chile Robinson

Image

Publicity photo of Sugar Chile Robinson sitting on the front of a piano and leaning on one arm while looking forward and smiling. Robinson's feet are...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Sugar Chile Robinson

Image

Angled publicity photo of Sugar Chile Robinson sitting on a piano bench with hands on the piano keys, turning forward and smiling.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Three unidentified African American boys near an unidentified street corner

Image

Three unidentified African American boys (ca. 10 years old?) posing near an unidentified street corner.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Brian Thurn Collection

Two girls stand next to a store

Image

Two African American girls stand next to a store with an automobile parked in front of it.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection
  • Clear selected
  • African American children
  • 1941-1950

Member of

  • Dolores Hobley Collection (12)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (4)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (2)
  • Brian Thurn Collection (1)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (20)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (20)
  • Gelatin silver prints (20)
  • Group portraits (10)
  • Snapshots (8)
  • Portrait photographs (7)
  • Publicity photographs (4)

Time Periods

  • 1931-1940 (2)
  • 1951-1960 (2)
  • (-) 1941-1950 (20)

Subjects

  • African American women (8)
  • Boys (8)
  • African American men (7)
  • Girls (7)
  • African American jazz musicians (4)
  • Gifted children (4)
  • Jazz musicians (4)
  • Pianists (4)
  • Actors (2)
  • Infants (2)
  • Seminarians (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Academic costume (1)
  • Actresses (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Children--Hospital care (1)
  • Classrooms (1)
  • Drum--Study and teaching (1)
  • Dwellings (1)
  • Families (1)
  • General stores (1)
  • Hospital patients (1)
  • Mother and child (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Nuns (1)
  • Teachers (1)
  • Toddlers (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • (-) African American children (20)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (5)

Subjects, People

  • Robinson, Sugar Chile, 1940- (4)
  • Jacobs, Mary Virginia (1)
  • Wright, Josephine, 1876- (1)

Date Published

  • 1941 (14)
  • 1950 (8)
  • 1945 (4)
  • 1949 (3)
  • 1960 (2)
  • 1931 (1)
  • 1939 (1)
  • 1942 (1)
  • 1945-07-23 (1)
  • 1945-07-28 (1)
  • 1951 (1)

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