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Accordionist playing for young children

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White man, kneeling down on the ground, playing an accordion while an African American toddler watches. She is standing in front of a wheelchair...

Date Published
October-31-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Coffeehouse entertainers

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Group of unidentified people at the Supreme Bean coffeehouse listening to two unidentified entertainers between two large speakers (a white man and an...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Coffeehouse entertainers

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Group of unidentified people at the Supreme Bean coffeehouse listening to two unidentified entertainers between two large speakers (a white man and an...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Country music ensemble performing for children

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Four piece country music band with three guitarists and a fiddle player (all white). They are wearing cowboy attire, performing for patients (African...

Date Published
October-31-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Flo singing and dancing for the Westport crowd

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"Flo" (John Koop) of Missy B's performing at Out in Westport in the McCoy's Public House parking lot wearing a bright purple dress and pointing with...

Date Published
2002
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Performer at the Jewel Box Lounge

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Unidentified white drag queen with outstretched arms in front of a microphone on stage at the Jewel Box Lounge in Kansas City; she's wearing a black...

Date Published
November-1959
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

Performer at the Jewel Box Lounge

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Unidentified white drag queen performing in front of a microphone at the Jewel Box Lounge in Kansas City; she's wearing a blue dress and facing the...

Date Published
November-1959
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

Skip Arnold performing at the Jewel Box Lounge

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Skip Arnold, in drag, singing in front of a microphone on stage at the Jewel Box Lounge in Kansas City; she's wearing a blue, floral patterned, dress...

Date Published
November-1959
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

Skip Arnold performing at the Jewel Box Lounge

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Drag queen Skip Arnold performing in front of a microphone at the Jewel Box Lounge in Kansas City; behind her is a piano covered in a pink drop cloth...

Date Published
November-1959
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

Tex Chambers performing with his trained dog

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Tex Chambers performing with his trained dog Spaghetti. The dog is in a large box on a carpeted stage. They are in front of a group of boy and girl...

Date Published
September-18-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Tex Chambers performing with his trained dog

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Tex Chambers performing with his trained dog Zest. Chambers is bending down while Zest climbs on his back. They are in front of a group of boy and...

Date Published
September-18-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Tex Chambers performing with his trained dog

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Tex Chambers performing with his trained dog Zest. Chambers is standing in front of a platform with his dog. Zest is laying down on the platform. They...

Date Published
September-18-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Tex Chambers performing with his trained dog

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Tex Chambers performing with his trained dog Zest. Chambers is standing next to a platform with his dog. Zest is bowing his head forward. They are in...

Date Published
September-18-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Tex Chambers performing with his trained dog

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Tex Chambers performing with his trained dog Zest. Chambers is standing next to a platform with his dog. They are in front of a group of boy and girl...

Date Published
September-18-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Woman entertaining children

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Unidentified white woman in a checked shirt entertaining a group of patients (African American children), staff, and nurses (African American and...

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

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (8)
  • GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection (4)
  • GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection (3)

Types

  • photographs (15)

Genres

  • Snapshots (11)
  • Group portraits (10)
  • Color photographs (9)
  • Black & white photographs (6)
  • Gelatin silver prints (6)
  • Portrait photographs (5)
  • Slides (4)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (8)
  • 1951-1960 (4)
  • 1991-2000 (2)
  • 2001-2010 (1)

Subjects

  • Men, White (14)
  • African American children (8)
  • Children, White (8)
  • Children--Hospital care (8)
  • Hospital patients (8)
  • Women, White (8)
  • Gay men (7)
  • Wheelchairs (7)
  • Cowboys (6)
  • Dogs (5)
  • Drag queens (5)
  • Drag shows (5)
  • Nurses (5)
  • African American women (4)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects (4)
  • Microphone (4)
  • Gay bars (3)
  • Guitarists (3)
  • Lesbians (3)
  • Coffeehouses (2)
  • Costume (2)
  • Guitar (2)
  • Harmonica (2)
  • Harmonica players (2)
  • Sound--Equipment and supplies (2)
  • Accordion (1)
  • Accordionists (1)
  • Awnings (1)
  • Banners (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Christmas (1)
  • Country musicians (1)
  • Festivals (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Hospitals--Employees (1)
  • Laughter (1)
  • Masks (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Neon signs (1)
  • Parking lots (1)
  • Parties (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Windows (1)
  • (-) Audiences (15)
  • (-) Entertainers (15)

Subjects, Community

  • White LGBTQ+ people (7)
  • LGBTQ+ people (6)
  • White gay men (5)
  • LGBTQ+ events (3)
  • African American LGBTQ+ people (2)
  • LGBTQ+ musicians (2)
  • Gay liberation (1)
  • Gay pride (1)
  • LGBTQ+people (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (4)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (3)
  • Westport (1)

Subjects, People

  • Chambers, Tex (5)
  • Arnold, Skip (2)
  • Flo (Drag queen) (1)

Events

  • Out in Westport (Event : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1967-09-18 (5)
  • 1959-11 (4)
  • 1967-10-31 (2)
  • 1991 (2)
  • 2000 (2)
  • 1966-12-01 (1)
  • 1966-12-31 (1)
  • 2002 (1)

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