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Audience at Bettye Miller's birthday party performance

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Audience member seated during Bettye Miller's birthday party performance.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Audience at Bettye Miller's birthday party performance

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Audience members during Bettye Miller's birthday party performance. Two women are applauding.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bearded man in front of an audience

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Unidentified bearded African American man speaking or performing in front of an audience at Bettye Miller's birthday party. A suitcase is at his feet...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller playing on stage

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Bettye Miller playing piano on a stage and leaning over toward Milt Abel playing double bass. An unidentified African American man is on drums behind...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller playing piano during her birthday party

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Bettye Miller playing piano during her birthday party. Two unidentified men, one standing, are behind her watching as she plays.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller playing piano during her birthday party

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Bettye Miller playing piano during her birthday party. A cymbal from a drum set is seen at her left and a group of people are seen behind her.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller singing and playing piano

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Bettye Miller singing while playing the piano during her birthday party. An unidentified man is seated behind her.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and unidentified drummer

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Bettye Miller (piano), Milt Abel (double bass), and an unidentified drummer perform for a small audience during Miller's birthday party.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Children watching a performance

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Group of children (African American and white) with white female nurses watching Santa Claus, who is not seen in the photo, during the mayor's...

Date Published
December-01-1974
December-31-1974
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children watching a program or presentation

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Audience of children (one African American boy, the rest white boys and girls) at Children's Mercy Hospital watching something out of the photo. An...

Date Published
January-01-1974
December-31-1974
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Disney characters dressed in Hawaiian costumes

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Disney characters dressed in Hawaiian costumes performing on stage at Children's Mercy Hospital. From left to right are three bears in the Country...

Date Published
January-01-1974
December-31-1974
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Ed Dix playing a solo

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Ed Dix plays a solo during a band performance at an unidentified venue. Audience members can be seen in the foreground.

Date Published
May-01-1978
Member of
Ed Dix Collection

Ed Dix playing a solo

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Ed Dix plays a solo during a band performance at an unidentified venue. Audience members can be seen in the foreground.

Date Published
May-01-1978
Member of
Ed Dix Collection

Jay McShann and others performing while people dance

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Jay McShann and his orchestra (African American and white men) performing at an unidentified social event or dance; various couples (white)can be seen...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann playing piano at an outdoor concert

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Jay McShann playing piano during an unidentified outdoor concert; unidentified African American woman singer seen from behind on stage with McShann...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann playing piano in a bar

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Jay McShann performing at unidentified bar; photo taken from across the piano; McShann's eyes are closed and head tilted up; audience members (white...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann playing piano with an unidentified combo

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Jay McShann playing piano with unidentified white male guitarist, bassist, and drummer; part of the audience is seen in front of the stage; unknown...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann playing piano with an unidentified combo

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Jay McShann playing piano with an unidentified jazz combo; photo taken from a point behind the audience; unidentified venue and event.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann speaking with a woman while playing piano

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Jay McShann seen from behind playing the piano while an unidentified white woman from the audience leans down with an arm around his shoulders to talk...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann speaking with an audience member

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Jay McShann standing up from the piano and leaning over to speak with an unidentified white woman from the audience at an unidentified bar; other...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann speaking with an audience member while smoking a cigarette

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Jay McShann turned away from his piano and smoking a cigarette while speaking with an unidentified white woman from the audience; unknown bar.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jimmy Cheatham, Thad Jones, and Mel Lewis

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View from behind and offstage of Jimmy Cheatham with Thad Jones and Mel Lewis on stage standing amid a tangle of wires in Madison, Wisconsin; Jones...

Date Published
October-1975
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Mary Ann Vernon singing

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Mary Ann Vernon, from Admitting, singing into a microphone in front of bandstand during the Children's Mercy Hospital Annual Awards Banquet, held at...

Date Published
January-01-1975
December-31-1975
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Mickey Mouse interacting with young patients

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Mickey Mouse interacting with young patients (white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. Mickey is leaning forward while children touch his head. The kids...

Date Published
January-01-1974
December-31-1974
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Paul Gunther on stage during an outdoor concert

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Drummer Paul Gunther playing on stage during an unidentified outdoor concert; other people can be seen on stage with him and audience members and tent...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

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Member of

  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (15)
  • Jay McShann Collection (11)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (7)
  • Ed Dix Collection (2)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (2)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (38)

Genres

  • Group portraits (38)
  • Snapshots (35)
  • Color photographs (30)
  • Black & white photographs (8)
  • Gelatin silver prints (8)
  • Publicity photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • (-) 1971-1980 (38)

Subjects

  • African American men (26)
  • Jazz musicians (26)
  • African American jazz musicians (24)
  • Women, White (21)
  • Pianists (17)
  • Piano (17)
  • Men, White (15)
  • African American women (11)
  • Jazz musicians, White (11)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (6)
  • Double bass (6)
  • Double bassists (6)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (6)
  • Drum set (6)
  • Children, White (5)
  • Jazz singers (5)
  • Hospital patients (4)
  • Conversation (3)
  • Guitarists (3)
  • Microphone (3)
  • Musical instruments (3)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • African American children (2)
  • Award presentations (2)
  • Boys (2)
  • Children--Hospital care (2)
  • Costume (2)
  • Fictitious characters (2)
  • Girls (2)
  • Guitar (2)
  • Hospitals--Employees (2)
  • Physicians (2)
  • Trees (2)
  • Applause (1)
  • Auditoriums (1)
  • Awnings (1)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Cornet players (1)
  • Cymbals (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Electric wiring (1)
  • Flowers (1)
  • Hospital administrators (1)
  • Lectures and lecturing (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Physicians' spouses (1)
  • Smoking (1)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Tables (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • Women singers (1)
  • (-) Audiences (38)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • McShann, Jay (10)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (5)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (2)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (2)
  • Mouse, Mickey (Fictitious character) (2)
  • Bacha, Gene (1)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (1)
  • Dreher, Richard (Doctor) (1)
  • Duck, Donald (Fictitious character) (1)
  • Goofy (Fictitious character) (1)
  • Gunther, Paul (1)
  • Jones, Thad (1)
  • Lewis, Mel, 1929-1990 (1)
  • Patton, Wanda (1)
  • Smull, Jane (1)
  • Smull, Ned (1)
  • Vernon, Mary Ann (1)
  • Weaver, Margaret (1)

Date Published

  • 1976 (14)
  • 1971 (13)
  • 1980 (13)
  • 1974-12-31 (4)
  • 1974-01-01 (3)
  • 1975-01-01 (3)
  • 1975-12-31 (3)
  • 1975-10 (2)
  • 1978-05-01 (2)
  • 1974-12-01 (1)

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