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Lily Tomlin and child

Image

Lily Tomlin holding pen to autograph copies of her book sitting in a large yellow "Edith Ann" rocking chair with a young white boy at FAO Schwarz' 1st...

Date Published
November-03-1995
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Lily Tomlin signing a book for a child

Image

Lily Tomlin in a Children's Mercy Hospital Ward signing a book for young white boy patient seated at a table and looking over at Tomlin.

Date Published
November-06-1995
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Lily Tomlin signing a book for a child in a chair

Image

Lily Tomlin in a Children's Mercy Hospital Ward visiting a young white patient that's lost their hair seated in a rocking chair while holding a book...

Date Published
November-06-1995
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Lily Tomlin signing a book for a child playing a game

Image

Lily Tomlin in a Children's Mercy Hospital Ward signing a book for a young boy patient hooked up to medical monitors. An unidentified white man is...

Date Published
November-06-1995
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Lurlene the Trailer Court Queen

Image

Lurlene the Trailer Court Queen holds up a spray can of Aqua Net hair spray as she wears a bouffant hairstyle, cat glasses, a chiffon scarf around her...

Date Published
1999
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Milton Berle performing in radio studio

Image

Milton Berle looking down at microphones with wide-open eyes in a radio studio while holding a book. Berle is wearing a dark suit, bowtie, and fedora.

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

Milton Berle, Benny Goodman, Dave Dexter, and Al Jarvis on "Can You Tie That"

Image

Milton Berle, Benny Goodman, Dave Dexter, and Al Jarvis seated at tables with microphones, pitchers of water, and paper during a recording of "Can You...

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

Milton Berle, Benny Goodman, Dave Dexter, and Al Jarvis on "Can You Tie That"

Image

Milton Berle, Benny Goodman, Dave Dexter, and Al Jarvis seated at tables with microphones for "Can You Tie That" KLAC radio program hosted by Jarvis...

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

Milton Berle, Benny Goodman, Dave Dexter, and Al Jarvis on "Can You Tie That"

Image

Milton Berle, Benny Goodman, Dave Dexter, an unidentified (standing in background), and Al Jarvis seated at tables with microphones for "Can You Tie...

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

Minnie Pearl and Roy Acuff performing at Grand Ole Opry

Image

Minnie Pearl and Roy Acuff performing at the Grand Ole Opry. Pearl is wearing a floral print dress and hat, balancing on one leg and smiling. Acuff is...

Date Published
1978
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Olga San Juan

Image

Olga San Juan posing in publicity photo for Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies." Olga is looking to the side and smiling while wearing a tropical dance...

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

Olga San Juan

Image

Olga San Juan looking forward while holding an AFRS microphone stand. Olga is smiling with a surprised facial expression, wearing a white blouse with...

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

Olga San Juan

Image

Headshot of Olga San Juan looking forward and smiling.

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

Phil Harris, Dave Dexter, and June Christy in studio for "Can You Tie That"

Image

An unidentified man wearing a pinstripe suit, Phil Harris, wearing a white shirt and leaning forward, Dave Dexter, June Christy, and an unidentified...

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

Pigmeat Markham at the Apollo

Image

"Pigmeat" Markham performing with an unidentified group of people at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Publicity photo of Ben Bernie

Image

Publicity photo of Ben Bernie turned to one side and looking up over his shoulder, wearing a dark suit, and holding a cigar.

Date Published
1937
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Publicity photo of Milton Berle

Image

Publicity photo of Milton Berle facing forward, smiling, and wearing checkered suit with patterned tie and handkerchief.

Date Published
1931
1935
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Rachel Riley

Image

Comedienne Rachel Riley smiles at the camera as she holds both hands up away from her shoulders and give a backwards peace sign. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1985
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Red Skelton

Image

Red Skelton sitting against a wall, tearing papers with his hands, and looking to the side with an angry expression. Skelton is wearing a light...

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

Red Skelton

Image

Publicity photograph of Red Skelton behind an NBC microphone, looking forward and smiling. Skelton is wearing a black suit.

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

Red Skelton

Image

An unidentified man leaning on a ledge with Red Skelton. Both men are smiling and looking to the side. Skelton is wearing a black suit and is leaning...

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

Rev. Billy C. Wirtz

Image

Reverend Billy C. Wirtz, a rockabilly piano player, singer, and comedian, turns his head slightly to the right and smiles at the camera in a close-up...

Date Published
1991
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Rev. Billy C. Wirtz

Image

Reverend Billy C. Wirtz, rockabilly piano player, singer, and comedian, turns his head slightly to the right and smiles at the camera in a close-up...

Date Published
1991
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Reverend Billy C. Wirtz

Image

The Reverend Billy C. Wirtz, rockabilly piano player, singer, and comedian, points his right index finger at the camera and winks his left eye. He...

Date Published
1991
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Reverend Billy C. Wirtz

Image

Reverend Billy C. Wirtz, rockabilly piano player, singer, and comedian, smiles at the camera as he wears a lamé smoking jacket, in a close-up...

Date Published
1991
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

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Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (49)
  • GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection (9)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (8)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (7)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (7)
  • Allan Bell Collection (1)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (82)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (77)
  • Gelatin silver prints (77)
  • Portrait photographs (67)
  • Group portraits (53)
  • Snapshots (41)
  • Publicity photographs (38)
  • Color photographs (5)
  • Architectural photographs (1)
  • Film transparencies (1)
  • Stereographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (43)
  • 1991-2000 (21)
  • 1931-1940 (4)
  • 1961-1970 (4)
  • 1971-1980 (3)
  • 1951-1960 (2)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • Women, White (19)
  • Actors (18)
  • Jazz musicians (13)
  • Lesbians (13)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (13)
  • Entertainers (10)
  • Actresses (9)
  • Singers (9)
  • Men, White (8)
  • Celebrities (6)
  • Children, White (6)
  • Women singers (6)
  • Children--Hospital care (5)
  • Hospital patients (5)
  • Pianists (5)
  • African American men (4)
  • Authors, American (4)
  • Books (4)
  • Radio programs (4)
  • Rockabilly musicians (4)
  • African American jazz musicians (3)
  • African American women (3)
  • Autographs (3)
  • Boys (3)
  • Male singers (3)
  • Radio talk show hosts (3)
  • Women musicians (3)
  • African American comedians (2)
  • Costume (2)
  • Rocking chairs (2)
  • Television actors and actresses (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Women jazz singers (2)
  • African American children (1)
  • African American soldiers (1)
  • Band directors (1)
  • Board games (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Columns (1)
  • Conductors (Music) (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Ethnic costume (1)
  • Fund raisers (1)
  • Fund raising (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Hospital beds (1)
  • Hospital buildings (1)
  • Hospitals (1)
  • Leather jackets (1)
  • Medical instruments and apparatus (1)
  • Motion picture producers and directors (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Native American men (1)
  • Neckties (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Racism in popular culture (1)
  • Radio broadcasters (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Smoking (1)
  • Soldiers (1)
  • Surgical plaster casts (1)
  • Tables (1)
  • Telephone (1)
  • Toys (1)
  • Toy stores (1)
  • Ventriloquists (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • Wigs (1)
  • Women comedians (1)
  • Yakama Indians (1)
  • (-) Comedians (82)

Subjects, Community

  • LGBTQ+ people (9)
  • White lesbians (9)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (9)
  • LGBTQ+ musicians (3)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (8)
  • New York (N.Y.) (2)
  • Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation (1)

Subjects, People

  • Dexter, Dave (15)
  • Jarvis, Al, 1910-1970 (13)
  • Hope, Bob, 1903-2003 (7)
  • Skelton, Red, 1913-1997 (7)
  • Clinton, Kate (6)
  • Berle, Milton (5)
  • Colonna, Jerry, 1904-1986 (4)
  • Harris, Phil, 1904-1995 (4)
  • Tomlin, Lily (4)
  • Wirtz, Billy C. (4)
  • Bergen, Edgar, 1903-1978 (3)
  • Burnett, Carol (3)
  • Christy, June, 1925-1990 (3)
  • Costello, Lou (3)
  • Crosby, Bing, 1903-1977 (3)
  • Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 (3)
  • San Juan, Olga, 1927-2009 (3)
  • Carney, Art, 1918-2003 (2)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (2)
  • De Carlo, Yvonne (2)
  • Dorsey, Tommy, 1905-1956 (2)
  • Durante, Jimmy, 1893-1980 (2)
  • Gleason, Jackie, 1916-1987 (2)
  • Hayes, Peter Lind, 1915-1998 (2)
  • Herman, Woody, 1913-1987 (2)
  • Howard, Eugene (2)
  • Koch, Lisa (2)
  • Martin, Dean, 1917-1995 (2)
  • Platt, Peggy (2)
  • Ryan, Peggy, 1924-2004 (2)
  • Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998 (2)
  • Wynn, Keenan, 1916-1986 (2)
  • Acuff, Roy (1)
  • Allen, Fred, 1896-1955 (1)
  • Anderson, Eddie, 1905-1977 (1)
  • Auerbach, Artie, 1903-1957 (1)
  • Barker, Jess (1)
  • Barker, Jim, 1921- (1)
  • Barnett, Vince, 1902-1977 (1)
  • Bennett, Joan, 1910-1990 (1)
  • Benny, Jack, 1894-1974 (1)
  • Bergman, Ingrid, 1915-1982 (1)
  • Bernie, Ben, 1891-1943 (1)
  • Bushkin, Joe (1)
  • Charlie, Job (1)
  • Chris Cali (Comedian) (1)
  • Cole, Buddy (1)
  • Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 (1)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (1)
  • Daley, Cass (1)
  • Ellis, Anita, 1920- (1)
  • Ennis, Skinnay (1)
  • Flynn, Ed (1)
  • Garland, Judy (1)
  • Greene, Eddie (1)
  • Haines, Connie, 1921-2008 (1)
  • Howard, Curly Joe, 1910-1993 (1)
  • Howard, Willie, 1886-1949 (1)
  • Jones, Philly Joe (1)
  • Jordan, Louis, 1908-1975 (1)
  • Kaye, Sammy, 1910-1987 (1)
  • Lewis, Jerry, 1926- (1)
  • Lincoln, Ann (Musician) (1)
  • Logan, Ella, 1913-1969 (1)
  • Looney, Jim (Yakama tribe member) (1)
  • Lurlene (Trailer court queen) (1)
  • Markham, Pigmeat (1)
  • Martin, Freddy, 1906-1983 (1)
  • Maxwell, Elsa (1)
  • McVea, Jack (1)
  • Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976 (1)
  • Minnie Pearl (1)
  • O'Connor, Rod (1)
  • Powell, Eleanor, 1912-1982 (1)
  • Rayburn, Gene (1)
  • Rich, Buddy, 1917-1987 (1)
  • Riley, Rachel (Comedienne) (1)
  • Russell, Andy, 1919-1992 (1)
  • Simmons, Jean, 1929-2010 (1)
  • Taylor, Johnny (Musician) (1)
  • Thompson, Henry (Yakama tribe member) (1)
  • Threatt, Elliott (1)
  • Tilton, Martha (1)
  • Traill, Sinclair (1)
  • Turner, Jim (Yakama tribe member) (1)
  • Wanger, Walter, 1894-1968 (1)
  • Yallup, Thomas (1)
  • Yallup, William (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (33)
  • 1941 (26)
  • 1950 (18)
  • 1991 (14)
  • 2000 (11)
  • 1931 (5)
  • 1940 (4)
  • 1946 (4)
  • 1998 (4)
  • 1935 (3)
  • 1962-07-01 (3)
  • 1962-07-31 (3)
  • 1995-11-06 (3)
  • 1961 (2)
  • 1937 (1)
  • 1942 (1)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1951-10-28 (1)
  • 1955-06 (1)
  • 1965 (1)
  • 1976 (1)
  • 1978 (1)
  • 1985 (1)
  • 1995-11-03 (1)
  • 1999 (1)
  • 2004 (1)

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