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Al Jolson Recording Exclusively on Decca Records

Image

Publicity photo of Al Jolson turning to the side and facing forward while smiling. Jolson is wearing a striped suit jacket and black tie, holding one...

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

Andrews Sisters and Bing Crosby

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The Andrews Sisters (Laverne, Patty, Maxene) and Bing Crosby standing under a recording studio microphone. An unidentified man in the back of the...

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

Anita O'Day

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Headshot of Anita O'Day in a 3/4 turn looking up. O'Day is holding a finger to her lips and is wearing a white laced blouse.

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

Anita O'Day

Image

Headshot of Anita O'Day in a 3/4 turn looking up. O'Day is resting her head on one hand and wearing a floral print dress.

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

Anita O'Day

Image

Publicity photo of Anita O'Day turning forward and singing while holding her hands out to clap. O'Day is wearing a floral print dress.

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

Art and Dotty Todd

Image

Publicity photo of signing duo The Todds (Art and Dotty) sitting next to a CBS microphone. Dotty is looking to the side and raising one eyebrow. Art...

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

Artie Malvin

Image

Angled headshot of Artie Malvin looking to the side and smiling. Malvin is wearing a pinstripe suit and polka dot tie.

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

Axel Stordahl and Frank Sinatra

Image

Axel Stordahl and Frank Sinatra sitting on stools in a CBS radio station. Stordahl is looking down at papers he is holding. Sinatra is looking at...

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

Big Joe Turner performing

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Big Joe Turner performing at a show. He is playing piano while looking up toward a microphone. He is wearing a suit and closing his eyes while smiling...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong

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Billie Holiday straightening a tie for Louis Armstrong in a publicity photo shoot in Hollywood, California. Armstrong is holding a trumpet in his...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore

Image

Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore speaking to an unidentified man in military uniform. Crosby and Shore are both holding papers in their hands and smiling...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Eberly and Dave Dexter

Image

Bob Eberly [née Bob Eberle], an unidentified man, and Dave Dexter seated at a table, looking down over music.

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Eberly featured with Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra

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Publicity photo of Bob Eberly [née Bob Eberle] leaning forward and looking to the side. Eberly is wearing a suit with black tie and white handkerchief...

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

Bob Eberly with Pat Dexter and two others

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Bob Eberly leaning over Pat Dexter, sitting in the center with two unidentified white women at a restaurant dining table. The woman on the left is...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Eberly, Dave Dexter, and Helen O'Connell

Image

Dave Dexter, Bob Eberly, and Helen O'Connell standing behind a microphone. Dexter is handing a record to an unidentified white man on the side. All...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Eberly, Dave Dexter, and Helen O'Connell

Image

Bob Eberly, Dave Dexter, and Helen O'Connell standing shoulder to shoulder and smiling. Dexter is holding a record with the Capitol label and O...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Carolyn Grey and Shorty Sherock

Image

Singer Carolyn Grey sitting on a stool and looking at music while smiling with Shorty Sherock standing behind her playing trumpet. In front is an NBC...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Nat King Cole, and Al Jarvis seated in a recording studio

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Dave Dexter, Nat King Cole, and Al Jarvis, unidentified white man, seated in a recording studio with two other unidentified white men and an...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Delta Rhythm Boys

Image

The Delta Rhythm Boys singing in front of a microphone. From left to right: Clinton Holland, Traverse Crawford, Harry Lewis, and Otho Gaines.

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

Desi Arnaz, Anita O'Day, and Dave Dexter at "Can You Tie That"

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Desi Arnaz, Anita O'Day, and Dave Dexter seated at a table and looking to the side and talking during a taping of "Can You Tie That." radio broadcast...

Date Published
December-08-1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dick Haymes kissing an unidentified woman

Image

A photograph from the side of Dick Haymes embracing and kissing an unidentified woman on an open street with buildings in the background. The woman is...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dick Todd, Joan Edwards, and her daughter Judy Ann Schachter

Image

Toddler Judy Ann, daughter of Joan Edwards, is unmistakably impressed as she's introduced backstage to Dick Todd, mother's singing partner on Columbia...

Date Published
October-09-1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dinah Shore and Jimmy Durante

Image

Dinah Shore and Jimmy Durante sitting at a piano and smiling at each other. Durante is playing the piano, wearing a dark suit and hat. Shore is...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dinning Sisters and Jerry Colonna

Image

Dinning Sisters (Jean, Lou, Ginger) standing in a close line with Jerry Colonna behind a Capitol Records microphone with studio wall in the background...

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

Ed Dix lined up with four others

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Ed Dix (left) in a line in front of a microphone with four others (three white men, one white woman) and big band members behind them.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Ed Dix Collection

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  • Jazz singers
  • 1941-1950

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (87)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (40)
  • Ed Dix Collection (3)
  • Betty Crow Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (131)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (130)
  • Gelatin silver prints (130)
  • Group portraits (80)
  • Portrait photographs (80)
  • Snapshots (68)
  • Publicity photographs (61)
  • Color photographs (1)
  • Postcards (1)

Time Periods

  • (-) 1941-1950 (131)

Subjects

  • Women, White (67)
  • Jazz musicians (65)
  • Men, White (57)
  • Jazz musicians, White (53)
  • Big bands (31)
  • Band directors (15)
  • Actors (14)
  • African American jazz musicians (9)
  • Microphone (9)
  • Trumpet players (9)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (8)
  • African American men (6)
  • African American women (6)
  • Conductors (Music) (6)
  • Composers (5)
  • Native American women (5)
  • Actresses (4)
  • Airplanes (3)
  • Flight attendants (3)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Saxophonists (2)
  • Cellists (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Cigarette smokers (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Costume (1)
  • Cuban American men (1)
  • Dinners and dining (1)
  • Disc jockeys (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Glassware (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Phonograph turntables (1)
  • Photographs (1)
  • Portraits (1)
  • Radio talk show hosts (1)
  • Sheet music (1)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Sound recordings (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • (-) Jazz singers (131)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (8)
  • Coeur D'Alene Tribe of the Coeur D'Alene Reservation, Idaho (5)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (3)
  • Estes Park (Colo.) (2)
  • Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1)
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Durrett, Warren (28)
  • Como, Perry, 1912-2001 (12)
  • Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998 (11)
  • Dexter, Dave (7)
  • Webb, Laura (7)
  • Bailey, Mildred (5)
  • Eberly, Bob (5)
  • Crosby, Bing, 1903-1977 (4)
  • O'Day, Anita (4)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (3)
  • Edwards, Joan, 1919-1981 (3)
  • Forrest, Helen (3)
  • Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 (3)
  • Klein, Manny, 1908-1994 (3)
  • Shaffer, Lloyd (3)
  • Shore, Dinah, 1917-1994 (3)
  • Haymes, Dick (2)
  • Jarvis, Al, 1910-1970 (2)
  • Johnston, Johnnie, 1915-1996 (2)
  • Kelly, Paula, 1920-1992 (2)
  • Lewis, Monica (2)
  • Morse, Ella Mae (2)
  • O'Connell, Helen (2)
  • O'Connor, Pat (Vocalist) (2)
  • Tally, Jo Ann (2)
  • Wallichs, Glenn (2)
  • Wayne, Frances (2)
  • Arnaz, Desi, 1917-1986 (1)
  • Block, Martin, 1903-1967 (1)
  • Blondell, Joan (1)
  • Bring, Lou (1)
  • Brown, Ray, 1926-2002 (1)
  • Brown, Walter, -1956 (1)
  • Carlyle, Louise (1)
  • Cassidy, Beverly (1)
  • Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 (1)
  • Colonna, Jerry, 1904-1986 (1)
  • Crawford, Traverse, 1916-1975 (1)
  • DeHaven, Gloria, 1925-2016 (1)
  • Derwin, Hal (1)
  • Dexter, Pat (1)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (1)
  • Dorsey, Tommy, 1905-1956 (1)
  • Durante, Jimmy, 1893-1980 (1)
  • Eberle, Ray (1)
  • Ennis, Skinnay (1)
  • Fitzgerald, Ella (1)
  • Foster, Stuart (1)
  • Gaines, Lee, 1914-1987 (1)
  • Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 (1)
  • Grayson, Kathryn, 1922-2010 (1)
  • Grey, Carolyn, 1922- (1)
  • Hanna, Phil (Singer) (1)
  • Holland, Clinton (1)
  • James, Harry, 1916-1983 (1)
  • Jolson, Al, 1886-1950 (1)
  • Jones, Myrna Lee (1)
  • Kilroy, Marilyn (1)
  • Knight, Evelyn (1)
  • Lane, Judy (Singer) (1)
  • Lane, Lillian (1)
  • Lee, Peggy, 1920-2002 (1)
  • Lewis, Harry, 1914-1984 (1)
  • Malvin, Arthur (1)
  • Maye, Marilyn (1)
  • McCall, Mary Ann (1)
  • Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976 (1)
  • O'Brien, Margaret, 1937- (1)
  • Pastor, Tony (1)
  • Rooney, Mickey (1)
  • Sherock, Shorty, 1915-1980 (1)
  • Stordahl, Axel (1)
  • Todd, Art (1)
  • Todd, Dick (1)
  • Todd, Dotty (1)
  • Turner, Joe, 1907-1990 (1)
  • Venuti, Joe (1)
  • Ward, Helen, 1916-1998 (1)
  • Warnow , Mark (1)
  • Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981 (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (83)
  • 1950 (61)
  • 1941 (39)
  • 1949 (11)
  • 1946 (7)
  • 1947-02-03 (4)
  • 1942 (3)
  • 1943 (3)
  • 1945-08-03 (3)
  • 1945-10-09 (2)
  • 1905-04-28 (1)
  • 1941-12-18 (1)
  • 1944 (1)
  • 1946-06-21 (1)
  • 1946-12-08 (1)
  • 1947 (1)
  • 1947-10-24 (1)
  • 1949-05-16 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • 2000 (1)

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