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Bettye Miller and Milt Abel

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Bettye Miller playing piano with Milt Abel playing double bass behind her. Both are looking at the camera.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller, piano, and Milt Abel, double bass, performing together. Abel is positioned behind Miller who is looking to the right of the photo. Very...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller playing piano

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Bettye Miller playing piano with an audience of white men and women behind her and to the side of her. Unidentified event. A small lamp is on the...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller playing piano

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano with an audience of white men and women behind her and to the side of her. Unidentified event. A small lamp is on the...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller playing xylophone

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Bettye Miller playing a xylophone set up next to her piano. Milt Abel is playing double bass at the right.

Date Published
1967
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller with Milt Abel

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Milt Abel, double bass, and Bettye Miller, piano, playing in front of an audience (primarily white men seen). The photo is taken from behind and to...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel and two others

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An unidentified white man, Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and an unidentified African American woman standing in a group together with a big band playing...

Date Published
May-1967
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and Rod Padilla

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Bettye Miller, piano, Milt Abel, double bass, and Rod Padilla, drums, performing in the lounge of the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, Lois Robers, and George Nader

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Bettye Miller, seated at a piano with Milt Abel holding his double bass. George Nader is leaning on the piano with Lois Roberts standing next to him...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Close up of Bettye Miller's hands

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Close up of Bettye Miller's hands as she plays piano.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel 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

Four women accordionists playing for the children

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Four white women accordionists from the Sigma Alpha Iota Conservatory Sorority playing for a group of children (only white children seen) on Halloween...

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

Gene with band uniform

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Gene Cookingham in red jacketed band uniform stands with brass Tenor horn in front of wooden door at unidentified location.

Date Published
May-1966
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Jo Jones

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Jo Jones playing drums and laughing; photo taken from a point lower than Jones and is seen over a cymbal.

Date Published
1960
1969
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Katharine B. Richardson Elementary School dedication

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An unidentified white man is speaking at a podium on stage during the Katharine B. Richardson Elementary School dedication; Dr. Ned Smull, second from...

Date Published
May-19-1964
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Milt Abel playing bass

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Milt Abel playing double bass with a microphone in front of him. There's a curtain behind him and he's facing to the right of the photo.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Milt Abel playing bass

Image

Milt Abel playing double bass. There's a curtain behind him and he's facing to the right of the photo.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Ned Smull speaking at the Katharine B. Richardson Elementary School dedication

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Dr. Ned Smull speaking at a podium on stage during the Katharine B. Richardson Elementary School dedication; unidentified white men are seated on...

Date Published
May-19-1964
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Trumpet player

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Unidentified African American trumpet player holding two trumpets (one in each hand) on his lap; seated and turned to the left with his head turned to...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Violinist and guitarist playing for the children

Image

Sigma Alpha Iota Conservatory Sorority presenting a program for children (only white children in photo) at Children's Mercy Hospital on Halloween. One...

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

Woman singing with big band

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Unidentified white woman singing in front of a microphone with a big band behind her. Ed Dix seen in the back right, on tenor saxophone.

Date Published
1964
Member of
Ed Dix Collection
  • Clear selected
  • Musical instruments
  • 1961-1970

Member of

  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (12)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (5)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (2)
  • Ed Dix Collection (1)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (21)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (18)
  • Gelatin silver prints (18)
  • Snapshots (18)
  • Group portraits (15)
  • Portrait photographs (5)
  • Color photographs (3)
  • Film transparencies (1)
  • Promotional photographs (1)
  • Stereographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (1)
  • (-) 1961-1970 (21)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (15)
  • African American jazz musicians (14)
  • African American men (12)
  • African American women (11)
  • Pianists (10)
  • Double bassists (9)
  • Men, White (9)
  • Piano (9)
  • Double bass (8)
  • Audiences (6)
  • Women, White (6)
  • African American children (3)
  • Children, White (3)
  • Children--Hospital care (3)
  • Costume (3)
  • Hospital patients (3)
  • Microphone (3)
  • Wheelchairs (3)
  • Bands (Music) (2)
  • Big bands (2)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Drum set (2)
  • Elementary schools (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Jazz musicians, White (2)
  • Lectures and lecturing (2)
  • Musicians (2)
  • Physicians (2)
  • School children (2)
  • Accordion (1)
  • Accordionists (1)
  • Brass instruments (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Country musicians (1)
  • Cowboys (1)
  • Cymbals (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Gay actors (1)
  • Hand (1)
  • Hispanic Americans (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Keyboards (Music) (1)
  • LGBTQ actors (1)
  • Men (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Xylophone (1)
  • (-) Musical instruments (21)

Subjects, People

  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (10)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (9)
  • Smull, Ned (2)
  • Cookingham, Gene (1)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (1)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Nader, George, 1921-2002 (1)
  • Padilla, Rod (1)
  • Roberts, Lois, 1941- (1)

Date Published

  • 1961 (11)
  • 1970 (11)
  • 1967-10-31 (3)
  • 1964-05-19 (2)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1964 (1)
  • 1966-05 (1)
  • 1967 (1)
  • 1967-05 (1)
  • 1969 (1)

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