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All in black in front of the Colony Club

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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

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

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

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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

Man watches Jay McShann playing piano at Fat Tuesday's

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Jay McShann playing piano at Fat Tuesday's bar with an unidentified smoking African American man looking on from a table behind McShann; a pair of...

Date Published
March-17-1983
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Ned Smull speaking to a group of seated women

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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

Performer at the Colony Club

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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

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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

Sunglasses at night

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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

Ted Malone interviews a technical sergeant on a bicycle

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Ted Malone, as a war correspondent, looks down and smiles at the notepad he is writing on with a pencil as he interviews an unidentified white male...

Date Published
1945
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Three women smoke and dine

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Three Mexican American women sit at a table. One eats her meal while the two to the left smoke cigarettes at an unknown event.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
MANA de Kansas City 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

Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (6)
  • GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection (5)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)
  • MANA de Kansas City Collection (1)
  • Ted Malone Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (14)

Genres

  • Group portraits (10)
  • Snapshots (8)
  • Black & white photographs (7)
  • Color photographs (7)
  • Gelatin silver prints (7)
  • Slides (5)
  • Portrait photographs (4)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (11)
  • 1941-1950 (1)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • Men, White (12)
  • Cigarettes (6)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects (5)
  • Drag queens (5)
  • Gay bars (5)
  • Gay men (5)
  • Women, White (4)
  • Microphone (3)
  • Physicians (3)
  • Smoking (3)
  • African American men (2)
  • Dinners and dining (2)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (2)
  • Piano (2)
  • Tables (2)
  • Tile facades (2)
  • Advertising (1)
  • African American children (1)
  • African American jazz musicians (1)
  • African American women (1)
  • Amateur radio stations--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
  • Beer signs (1)
  • Bottles (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Brooches (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Children--Hospital care (1)
  • Crutches (1)
  • Display cases (1)
  • Drag shows (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Governors (1)
  • Handshaking (1)
  • Hispanic American women (1)
  • Hospital patients (1)
  • Jazz musicians (1)
  • Journalism, Military (1)
  • Journalists (1)
  • Lecturers (1)
  • Lectures and lecturing (1)
  • Mexican American women (1)
  • Military cycling (1)
  • Military miniatures (1)
  • Military uniforms (1)
  • Paper money (1)
  • Pearls (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Radio personalities (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Soldiers (1)
  • Staircases (1)
  • Sunglasses (1)
  • Tents (1)
  • Vending machines (1)
  • Volunteer workers in hospitals (1)
  • Waiting rooms (1)
  • War correspondents (1)
  • (-) Cigarette smokers (14)

Subjects, Community

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

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (5)

Subjects, People

  • Smull, Ned (2)
  • Darrow, Daniel C. (1)
  • Hearnes, Warren E. (Warren Eastman), 1923-2009 (1)
  • Malone, Ted, 1908-1989 (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)

Date Published

  • 1961 (2)
  • 1966-11 (2)
  • 1970 (2)
  • 1945 (1)
  • 1961-02 (1)
  • 1961-03 (1)
  • 1965 (1)
  • 1966-10-01 (1)
  • 1966-10-31 (1)
  • 1967-09-01 (1)
  • 1967-09-30 (1)
  • 1968-05-09 (1)
  • 1970-12-17 (1)
  • 1981 (1)
  • 1983-03-17 (1)
  • 1990 (1)

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