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All are very serious as the male lead sings

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The white male lead sings to the back of a very serious white man as a group (the chorus (all white)) are in the background watching on the stage of...

Date Published
December-11-1952
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Billy Lee Riley

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Billy Lee Riley, rockabilly singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, turns his head to the left and rests his chin on the curled fingers of his right...

Date Published
1956
1960
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Billy Lee Riley and the Original Little Green Men

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Billy Lee Riley and the Original Little Green Men, a rockabilly band comprised of four white men, grin as they sit, stand or crouch in a corner. One...

Date Published
1956
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Couple ballet dance during La Traviata

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A white couple dance in ballet clothing as three white men stand behind them and sing and a group (the chorus (all white)) are in the background...

Date Published
December-11-1952
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Couple ballet dance during La Traviata

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A white couple dance in ballet clothing as four white men stand behind them and sing and a group (the chorus (all white)) are in the background...

Date Published
December-11-1952
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Couple ballet dance during La Traviata

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A white couple dance in ballet clothing as four white men stand behind them and sing and a group (the chorus (all white)) are in the background...

Date Published
December-11-1952
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Couple ballet dance during La Traviata

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A white couple dance in ballet clothing as four white men stand behind them and sing and a group (the chorus (all white)) are in the background...

Date Published
December-11-1952
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Dennis Day

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Headshot of Dennis Day wearing a tweed jacket and silk tie. Day is facing forward and looking to the side while smiling.

Date Published
1951
1955
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Gene Austin playing piano and singing

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Gene Austin playing piano and singing for patients (white girls and boys) and other visitors (African American and white women and a white man) around...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Gene Austin playing piano and singing

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Gene Austin playing piano and singing for patients (white girls and boys) and other visitors (white women) around Christmas time. A large Christmas...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Gene Autry and Gail Davis with a young patient

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Gene Autry and Gail Davis with a young white male patient at Children's Mercy Hospital. Autry is standing to the left of the child while shaking a...

Date Published
October-23-1952
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Gene Autry standing with young patients

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Gene Autry standing with young patients (white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. A young boy is standing in front of Autry, who is holding a cowboy hat...

Date Published
October-23-1952
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Hank Ballard and Syd Nation

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R&B vocalist Hank Ballard smiles as he snaps his fingers at shoulder height and lifts his right knee on the right side of the photograph as Syd Nathan...

Date Published
September-24-1960
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Jannette McDonald [sic]

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Jeanette MacDonald having meal at unknown event wearing a bronze colored dress and pearl jewelry.

Date Published
August-15-1957
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Man and woman sitting on a bench during La Traviata

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A white man and white woman sit together on a bench on the stage of "La Traviata", at the Amato Opera in New York City, New York. Handwritten on the...

Date Published
December-11-1952
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Man approaching a seated woman during La Traviata

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A man approaches a woman (both white) seated at a table on the stage of "La Traviata", at the Amato Opera in New York City, New York. A white maid...

Date Published
December-11-1952
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Paired off people sing during La Traviata

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Paired off people (white men and women), one in formal dress, the other in Romany dress, sing to each other on the stage of "La Traviata", at the...

Date Published
December-11-1952
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Patrice Munsel and three other performers on stage during "Cosi Fan Tutti"

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Patrice Munsel stands center stage with her head turned slightly to the right as she sings to a white man standing to her right performing in the...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

People in formal dress pair off to speak with the Romani women during La Traviata

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Different people (all white) in formal clothing talk with Romani women (played by white women) in groups of two on the stage of "La Traviata", at the...

Date Published
December-11-1952
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Performance of La Traviata

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The actors and singers (all white men and women) are on stage in costume performing for Alfredo's entrance during Act I of "La Traviata", at the Amato...

Date Published
December-11-1952
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Romani women sing with a man during La Traviata

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A white man bends slightly as he stands in the center of six Romani women (played by white women) who also bend toward him on the stage of "La...

Date Published
December-11-1952
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Seated woman bends in distress during La Traviata

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A seated white woman bends in distress as a white man stands behind her singing on the stage of "La Traviata", at the Amato Opera in New York City...

Date Published
December-11-1952
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Seated woman signs a document as the maid looks on during La Traviata

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A seated white woman signs something on the table with a feather pen as the white female maid stands at the other side of the table and looks on...

Date Published
December-11-1952
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Seated woman signs as the man behind her sings during La Traviata

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A seated white woman signs something on the table with a feather pen while the white man behind her sings on the stage of "La Traviata", at the Amato...

Date Published
December-11-1952
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Seated woman sits and sings as the man bends toward her during La Traviata

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A white woman sits on a bench with her left hand on her lap and sings as a white man, from his right side, bends toward her on the stage of "La...

Date Published
December-11-1952
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

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  • 1951-1960

Member of

  • Ted Malone Collection (17)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (4)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (3)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (1)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (1)
  • GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection (1)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (28)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (26)
  • Gelatin silver prints (26)
  • Group portraits (21)
  • Portrait photographs (5)
  • Publicity photographs (4)
  • Snapshots (4)
  • Color photographs (2)
  • Film transparencies (1)
  • Slides (1)
  • Stereographs (1)

Time Periods

  • (-) 1951-1960 (28)

Subjects

  • Men, White (23)
  • Women, White (22)
  • Acting in opera (17)
  • Opera (17)
  • Operas--Performances (17)
  • Ballet dancers (4)
  • Children, White (4)
  • Children--Hospital care (4)
  • Hospital patients (4)
  • Actors (3)
  • Women, Romani (3)
  • African American women (2)
  • Cowboys (2)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Harmonica players (2)
  • Nurses (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Rockabilly musicians (2)
  • Wheelchairs (2)
  • Actresses (1)
  • African American men (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects (1)
  • Birdcages (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Characters and characteristics on television (1)
  • Christmas decorations (1)
  • Christmas trees (1)
  • Dinners and dining (1)
  • Drag queens (1)
  • Drag shows (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Gay bars (1)
  • Gay men (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Hospital beds (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (1)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (1)
  • (-) Singers (28)

Subjects, Community

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

Subjects, Geographic

  • New York (N.Y.) (17)
  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (1)
  • Miami (Fla.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Austin, Gene, 1900-1972 (2)
  • Autry, Gene, 1907-1998 (2)
  • Riley, Billy Lee (2)
  • Ballard, Hank (1)
  • Davis, Gail (1)
  • Day, Dennis, 1916-1988 (1)
  • Janes, Roland (1)
  • MacDonald, Jeanette, 1903-1965 (1)
  • Munsel, Patrice, 1925-2016 (1)
  • Nathan, Syd, 1904-1968 (1)
  • Oakley, Annie, 1860-1926 (1)
  • Pepper, Marvin (1)
  • Van Eaton, Jim (1)

Date Published

  • 1952-12-11 (16)
  • 1951 (4)
  • 1960 (4)
  • 1952-10-23 (2)
  • 1956 (2)
  • 1955 (1)
  • 1957-08-15 (1)
  • 1958 (1)
  • 1959-11 (1)
  • 1960-09-24 (1)
  • 1962 (1)

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