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All in black in front of the Colony Club

Image

Unidentified white drag queen enjoying a cigarette in front of the Colony Club in Kansas City; she's wearing a mid-length black dress with brooch and...

Date Published
February-1961
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

Babs Gonzales

Image

Babs Gonzales with a cigarette looking to the left of the photo.

Date Published
1960
1969
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Crowded waiting room

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Patients and adults (African American women and children, white women and children, one white man) waiting on long wooden benches in the Clinic...

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

Dr. Smull and military reporter

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Dr. Ned Smull (seated) speaking with a white male Air Force reporter during the move into the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. The reporter is...

Date Published
December-17-1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Ed Dix and friend in a boat

Image

Ed Dix and an unidentified white man in a boat on the lake. Both are shirtless, wearing hats, and the unidentified man is smoking a cigarette. Both...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Ed Dix Collection

Governor Hearnes at the dedication ceremony

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Governor Hearnes standing with his back to the camera and standing beside a car with an open door near a tent at the dedication ceremony for the new...

Date Published
May-09-1968
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Helping a lady down the stairs

Image

Unidentified group of people, all white, mostly men, with one or two drag queens, in a pink colored stairwell; one man is holding the black dress for...

Date Published
1965
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

Jimmy Cheatham and friend

Image

Jimmy Cheatham seated next to an unidentified African American man in a suit and smoking a cigarette in the booth of a restaurant in New York City...

Date Published
August-1969
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jo Jones with Big Mama Thornton on drums

Image

Big Mama Thornton seated and playing drums with Joe Jones standing next to her observing with a cigarette in one hand; Edmund Hall and two others can...

Date Published
1967
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

John Lennon and Ringo Starr in Kansas City

Image

John Lennon and Ringo Starr sitting at a table next to a microphone during a press conference in Kansas City, Missouri. Lennon and Starr are both...

Date Published
September-17-1964
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Ned Smull speaking to a group of seated women

Image

Dr. Ned Smull in a lab coat with an unidentified white man behind him, standing and talking to a group of young white women sitting at tables in Nurse...

Date Published
September-01-1967
September-30-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Paul McCartney in Kansas City

Image

Paul McCartney smoking a cigarette at a press conference in Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
September-17-1964
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Performer at the Colony Club

Image

Unidentified drag queen on stage at the Colony Club (likely) in Kansas City; she's wearing a sleeveless, backless blue evening gown and her body is...

Date Published
March-1961
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

Red and white outside the Colony Club

Image

Two unidentified white drag queens by the tile wall outside of the Colony Club in Kansas City; the person on the right has on a white dress with...

Date Published
November-1966
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

Ringo Starr smoking in Kansas City

Image

Ringo Starr looking up and smoking a cigarette during a press conference in Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
September-17-1964
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Sunglasses at night

Image

Unidentified white drag queen in front of the tiled wall outside of the Colony Club in Kansas City; she's facing forward wearing a blue dress with red...

Date Published
November-1966
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

Unidentified man speaking as Daniel C. Darrow looks on

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Unidentified white man speaking from behind a podium with microphone set up at the head table during an unknown hospital event at the Fred Harvey...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Unidentified speaker

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Unidentified white man speaking at a podium in front of a microphone during an award ceremony at Children's Mercy Hospital. He's wearing a suit...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection
  • Clear selected
  • Cigarette smokers
  • 1961-1970

Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (6)
  • GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection (5)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (3)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (3)
  • Ed Dix Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (18)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (12)
  • Gelatin silver prints (12)
  • Group portraits (11)
  • Snapshots (11)
  • Portrait photographs (7)
  • Color photographs (6)
  • Slides (5)
  • Promotional photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (1)
  • (-) 1961-1970 (18)

Subjects

  • Men, White (15)
  • Cigarettes (9)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects (5)
  • Drag queens (5)
  • Gay bars (5)
  • Gay men (5)
  • Microphone (4)
  • Women, White (4)
  • African American jazz musicians (3)
  • African American men (3)
  • Jazz musicians (3)
  • Physicians (3)
  • Rock musicians (3)
  • Smoking (3)
  • African American women (2)
  • Press conferences (2)
  • Tile facades (2)
  • Advertising (1)
  • African American children (1)
  • Amateur radio stations--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Ashtrays (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Beer signs (1)
  • Boats and boating (1)
  • Bottles (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Brooches (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Children--Hospital care (1)
  • Dinners and dining (1)
  • Display cases (1)
  • Drag shows (1)
  • Drinking glasses (1)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Governors (1)
  • Handshaking (1)
  • Hospital patients (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Journalists (1)
  • Lakes (1)
  • Lecturers (1)
  • Lectures and lecturing (1)
  • Military miniatures (1)
  • Military uniforms (1)
  • Paper money (1)
  • Pearls (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Staircases (1)
  • Sunglasses (1)
  • Tables (1)
  • Tents (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Vending machines (1)
  • Volunteer workers in hospitals (1)
  • Waiting rooms (1)
  • (-) Cigarette smokers (18)

Subjects, Community

  • LGBTQ+ people (5)
  • White gay men (5)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (5)
  • LGBTQ+ events (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (5)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (3)

Subjects, People

  • Smull, Ned (2)
  • Starr, Ringo (2)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (1)
  • Darrow, Daniel C. (1)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (1)
  • Gonzales, Babs (1)
  • Hall, Edmond (1)
  • Hearnes, Warren E. (Warren Eastman), 1923-2009 (1)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Lennon, John, 1940-1980 (1)
  • McCartney, Paul (1)
  • Thornton, Big Mama (1)

Date Published

  • 1961 (3)
  • 1964-09-17 (3)
  • 1970 (3)
  • 1966-11 (2)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1961-02 (1)
  • 1961-03 (1)
  • 1965 (1)
  • 1966-10-01 (1)
  • 1966-10-31 (1)
  • 1967 (1)
  • 1967-09-01 (1)
  • 1967-09-30 (1)
  • 1968-05-09 (1)
  • 1969 (1)
  • 1969-08 (1)
  • 1970-12-17 (1)

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