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Two photos of Dos Fallopia

Image

Publicity photo sheet with two different photos of Dos Fallopia (Lisa Koch and Peggy Platt); in the photo on the left they are dressed in various head...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection

Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy Charlie McCarthy

Image

Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen wearing a tuxedo and top hat while holding a phone receiver and staring at his dummy Charlie McCarthy who is also wearing a...

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

Vince Barnett

Image

Signed portrait of Vince Barnett looking quizzically at a telephone.

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

Walter Wanger, Peggy Ryan, Lou Costello, Joan Bennett, Jess Barker and Yvonne De Carlo outside an airplane

Image

Walter Wanger, Peggy Ryan, Lou Costello, Joan Bennett, Jess Barker and Yvonne De Carlo standing left to right outside a United Air Lines airplane.

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

Willie Howard and Eugene Howard

Image

Publicity photo of Willie Howard and Eugene Howard making jokes next to a Columbia microphone. Willie is holding his hands up and shrugging while...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Woody Herman, Peter Lind Hayes, Al Jarvis, and Dave Dexter talking during broadcast recording of "Can You Tie That"

Image

Woody Herman, Peter Lind Hayes, and Dave Dexter laughing while seated at tables with microphones in a tile studio during broadcast recording of "Can...

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

Woody Herman, Peter Lind Hayes, and Dave Dexter talking during broadcast recording of "Can You Tie That"

Image

Woody Herman, Peter Lind Hayes, and Dave Dexter seated at tables with microphones and talking during a broadcast recording of "Can You Tie That" KLAC...

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