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Jazz ensemble on stage

Image

Jazz ensemble performing on stage with clarinetist, djembe player, trombonist, and drummer. Audience members are seated at a table at the far right...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Ed Dix Collection

Metropolitan Opera audience look on as Pierre Monteaux conducts

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The Metropolitan Opera audience (white women and men) looks on, some still approaching their seats, as Pierre Monteaux conducts.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Occupied KMBC-TV Playhouse seating

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Back of auditorium with upper and lower level seating visible including upper balcony entrance stairs and railings. Seating fully occupied by men...

Date Published
1951
Member of
Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection

Performer at the Jewel Box Lounge

Image

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

Image

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

Playing to a large audience

Image

Bettye Miller, piano, and Milt Abel, double bass, performing in front of a large crowd of white men and women standing in front of them. Photo taken...

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

Singing at the Jewel Box

Image

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

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

Skip Arnold performing at the Jewel Box Lounge

Image

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

Image

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

Ted Malone stands on the street in Cleveland, Ohio to broadcast

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Ted Malone stands in the middle Superior Street, with the cross road of 6th Street and the Plain Dealer building behind him, just inside the open...

Date Published
1951
1952
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Unknown jazz trumpet players at unknown venue

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Four unidentified jazz trumpet players with their instruments (three white women in matching outfits and one white man in a gray suit with glasses)...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Warren Durrett in concert, standing at the piano

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Warren Durrett standing in a light suit and tie, one hand on the piano lid and the other up to his face. He is partially obscured by a drum set, out...

Date Published
September-26-1955
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection
  • Clear selected
  • Audiences
  • 1951-1960

Member of

  • GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection (5)
  • Ted Malone Collection (2)
  • Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection (1)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (1)
  • Ed Dix Collection (1)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (12)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (7)
  • Gelatin silver prints (7)
  • Portrait photographs (6)
  • Color photographs (5)
  • Group portraits (5)
  • Slides (5)
  • Snapshots (4)

Time Periods

  • (-) 1951-1960 (12)

Subjects

  • Men, White (11)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects (5)
  • Drag queens (5)
  • Drag shows (5)
  • Gay men (5)
  • Microphone (5)
  • Entertainers (4)
  • Gay bars (4)
  • Jazz musicians (4)
  • Women, White (4)
  • Jazz musicians, White (3)
  • African American women (2)
  • Musical instruments (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Piano (2)
  • African American jazz musicians (1)
  • African American men (1)
  • Auditoriums (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Band directors (1)
  • Big bands (1)
  • Camera operators (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Conductors (Music) (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Double bass (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Historic buildings (1)
  • Laughter (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Opera (1)
  • Opera audiences (1)
  • Radio stations (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Television broadcasting (1)
  • Television journalists (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • (-) Audiences (12)

Subjects, Community

  • LGBTQ+ people (5)
  • White gay men (5)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (5)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (5)
  • Cleveland (Ohio) (1)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)
  • New York (N.Y.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Arnold, Skip (2)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (1)
  • Durrett, Warren (1)
  • Malone, Ted, 1908-1989 (1)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (1)
  • Monteux, Pierre, 1875-1964 (1)

Date Published

  • 1951 (6)
  • 1959-11 (5)
  • 1960 (4)
  • 1952 (1)
  • 1955-09-26 (1)

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