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Burns' Linwood Tavern's front door in Kansas City, Missouri

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The front door of Burns' Linwood Tavern at 1220 Linwood, Kansas City, Missouri, advertises it's menu by painting the choices on the glass of the door...

Date Published
July-1988
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Burns' Linwood Tavern's storefront window in Kansas City, Missouri

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The storefront window of Burns' Linwood Tavern at 1220 Linwood in Kansas City, Missouri. Below an unlit Michelob neon sign, painted on the window in...

Date Published
July-1988
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Curtis Peagler performing in a bar

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Curtis Peagler playing saxophone in the middle of a crowded bar (likely the Blue Note) and wearing a red hat; a crowd of people are seated all around...

Date Published
June-1989
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jay McShann having a few beers with Alice Betty Rustin

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Jay McShann in a paisley shirt holding Alice Betty Rustin's hand with beer bottles and glasses on the table in front of them; Rustin is wearing a...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann in a large rattan chair in a bar

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Jay McShann sitting on a rattan chair with a large back in an unidentified bar; others, including wait staff, are seen behind him; possibly somewhere...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann playing piano at Fat Tuesday's

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Jay McShann playing piano at Fat Tuesday's bar with a couple (white woman and man) looking on from their table; McShann is facing the right of the...

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

Jeannie and family on a Jazz cruise

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Jeannie Cheatham seated at a small table in a bar with her Mother (M'ma) and two sisters (Charlotte and Jo-Anne) while on the S.S. Norway during a...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham at the bar

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Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham posing for a photo at a bar; Jeannie is seated on a barstool and Jimmy is standing behind her; both have drinks on the bar...

Date Published
1981
1984
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham at the bar

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Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham with drinks at the bar; Jeannie is seated and Jimmy, in a red sweater and red beret, is standing behind her and looking...

Date Published
1981
1984
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jimmy Cheatham at the bar

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Jimmy Cheatham seated at a bar on a blue barstool; wearing a red V-neck sweater and matching red beret; facing the camera and smiling; others can be...

Date Published
1981
1984
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jimmy Cheatham working the audience

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Jimmy Cheatham in a red hat speaking with members of the audience at a bar while Curtis Peagler is playing saxophone behind him; a banner reads "Blue...

Date Published
June-1989
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jimmy Witherspoon and his brother Leonard

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Jimmy Witherspoon posing for a photo with his brother Leonard at a bar; unidentified man in background with a drink in front of him; both facing the...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Lawrence McAndrews with giant check with others at a restaurant

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Lawrence McAndrews, CEO of Children's Mercy Hospital, holding a giant check and sitting at a round bar table having drinks with four unidentified...

Date Published
1986
1992
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital 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

Reprint of a painting of Jay McShann playing piano in a crowded bar

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Reprint of oil on linen painting of Jay McShann playing piano in a crowded bar; painting by Maxine Schacker.

Date Published
1988
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

S & S club bar

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Main bar under construction at the Saddle & Sirloin Club.

Date Published
1981
1992
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Unidentified man with large check in his hands

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Unidentified white man with mustache seated and holding up a large check to the camera. Unknown bar.

Date Published
1986
1992
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

View from behind of McShann playing piano at Fat Tuesday's

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View of Jay McShann from behind while he plays piano at Fat Tuesday's; one of the restaurant's menus can be seen on the table behind him.

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

Wendy Neutzler and an unidentified man

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Wendy Neutzler leans her head into the cheek of an unidentified African American man who leans his cheek towards the side of her head at the Grand...

Date Published
1985
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection
  • Clear selected
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)
  • 1981-1990

Member of

  • Jay McShann Collection (7)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (6)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (3)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (2)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (19)

Genres

  • Color photographs (16)
  • Group portraits (13)
  • Snapshots (13)
  • Black & white photographs (3)
  • Gelatin silver prints (3)
  • Portrait photographs (2)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (4)
  • (-) 1981-1990 (19)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (13)
  • African American men (11)
  • Jazz musicians (10)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (6)
  • Pianists (6)
  • Audiences (4)
  • Men, White (4)
  • Piano (4)
  • Trombonists (4)
  • Women, White (4)
  • African American women (3)
  • Berets (3)
  • Tables (3)
  • Checks (2)
  • Crowds (2)
  • Gifts (2)
  • Hats (2)
  • Menus (2)
  • Philanthropists (2)
  • Restaurants (2)
  • Saxophone (2)
  • Saxophonists (2)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Beer bottles (1)
  • Blues musicians (1)
  • Brothers (1)
  • Buildings--Repair and reconstruction (1)
  • Chairs (1)
  • Chief executive officers (1)
  • Cigarette smokers (1)
  • Clubs (1)
  • Cruise ships (1)
  • Crutches (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Mothers (1)
  • Painting (1)
  • Rattan furniture (1)
  • Sisters (1)
  • Waiters (1)
  • Women jazz musicians (1)
  • Women pianists (1)
  • (-) Bars (Drinking establishments) (19)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (3)

Subjects, People

  • McShann, Jay (6)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (4)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (3)
  • Peagler, Curtis (2)
  • Baty, Charlie (1)
  • McAndrews, Lawrence (1)
  • Neutzler, Wendy (1)
  • Rustin, Alice Betty (1)
  • Witherspoon, Jimmy (1)
  • Witherspoon, Leonard (1)

Events

  • Harbor Island Jam Session (3)

Date Published

  • 1981 (8)
  • 1990 (4)
  • 1983-03-17 (3)
  • 1984 (3)
  • 1992 (3)
  • 1986 (2)
  • 1988-07 (2)
  • 1989-06 (2)
  • 1985 (1)
  • 1988 (1)
  • 2000 (1)

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