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American Royal Queen Pam Brackett

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American Royal Queen Pam Brackett (white woman) visiting Children's Mercy Hospital. She is wearing a crown and carrying a scepter. She is looking down...

Date Published
January-01-1968
December-31-1968
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Bobbi Johnson and Charles O. Finley visiting a patient

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Bobbi Johnson, Miss USA, and Kansas City Athletics owner Charles O. Finley delivering a souvenir megaphone to white boy patient with bandages on his...

Date Published
March-01-1965
May-31-1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Bobbi Johnson and Charles O. Finley visiting a patient

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Bobbi Johnson, Miss USA, and Kansas City Athletics owner Charles O. Finley delivering a souvenir megaphone to white girl patient seated in a hospital...

Date Published
March-01-1965
May-31-1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Bobbi Johnson visiting with patients

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Bobbi Johnson, Miss USA, delivering Kansas City Athletics souvenir megaphones to three white patients (two girls, one boy) while visiting Children's...

Date Published
March-01-1965
May-31-1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Bobbi Johnson visiting with two boys

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Bobbi Johnson, Miss USA, delivering Kansas City Athletics souvenir megaphones to two white boys outside the entrance to the hospital. She's standing...

Date Published
March-01-1965
May-31-1965
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Dancing trio at the Colony Club

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Three undientified dancers (one man, one woman, one drag queen, all white) at the Colony Club in Kansas City; the drag queen has on a tiara, matching...

Date Published
November-1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Dean Cowles, Lou Archer and others at an unnamed event

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Group photo during and unidentified event with (left to right) Dean Cowles, Mary Peterson, Lou Archer (wearing a tiara), unidentified white woman...

Date Published
April-01-1969
April-30-1969
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Looking fierce at the Colony Club

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Three unidentified white drag queens in a row posing for a photo in front of the tiled wall outside the Colony Club in Kansas City; the first one is...

Date Published
November-1968
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Posing at the Colony Club

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Unidentified white drag queen posing as if marching in front of the tile wall outside of the Colony Club in Kansas City; she's in black pants or hose...

Date Published
November-1968
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Three posing for a photo

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Three unidentified white drag queens posing together for a photo in front of the tiled wall outside the Colony Club in Kansas City; the one on the...

Date Published
November-1968
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Tony Battaglia in pink at the Colony Club

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Drag queen Tony Battaglia standing outside the windows of the Colony Club in Kansas City wearing a full length pink dress, long pink evening gloves...

Date Published
November-1959
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection
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Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (6)
  • GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection (4)
  • GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection (1)

Types

  • (-) photographs (11)

Genres

  • Group portraits (8)
  • Color photographs (6)
  • Snapshots (6)
  • Black & white photographs (5)
  • Gelatin silver prints (5)
  • Slides (5)
  • Portrait photographs (3)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (10)
  • 1951-1960 (1)

Subjects

  • Men, White (7)
  • Women, White (7)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects (5)
  • Beauty contestants (5)
  • Drag queens (5)
  • Gay bars (5)
  • Gay men (5)
  • Children, White (4)
  • Children--Hospital care (4)
  • Hospital patients (4)
  • Megaphones (4)
  • Sports--Collectibles (4)
  • Boys (3)
  • Gloves (3)
  • Tile facades (3)
  • Girls (2)
  • Hospital beds (2)
  • Older men (2)
  • Signs and signboards (2)
  • Sports team owners (2)
  • Windows (2)
  • Bandages and bandaging (1)
  • Beer neon signs (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Filipino American women (1)
  • Handbags (1)
  • Hospital administrators (1)
  • Hospital buildings (1)
  • Hospitals--Employees (1)
  • Lesbians (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Scepters (1)
  • Smoking (1)
  • Statues (1)
  • Wild boar (1)
  • (-) Tiaras (11)

Subjects, Community

  • White gay men (5)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (5)
  • LGBTQ+ people (4)
  • LGBTQ+ people (1)
  • White lesbians (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (5)

Subjects, People

  • Johnson, Bobbi (Beauty contest winner) (4)
  • Finley, Charles Oscar, 1918-1996 (2)
  • Archer, M. Luisita Benavides (Merla Luisita Benavides), 1933- (1)
  • Battaglia, Tony (1)
  • Brackett, Pam (1)
  • Cowles, Dean (1)
  • Diddle, Nancy (1)
  • Herst, Karen (1)
  • Peterson, Mary (Hospital employee) (1)

Date Published

  • 1965-03-01 (4)
  • 1965-05-31 (4)
  • 1968-11 (3)
  • 1959-11 (1)
  • 1964-11 (1)
  • 1968-01-01 (1)
  • 1968-12-31 (1)
  • 1969-04-01 (1)
  • 1969-04-30 (1)

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