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Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller seated at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown (unseen in photo) on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller standing at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller standing at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man, likely Milt Abel, on double...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown (unseen in photo) on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller playing piano

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano. A curtain is close behind her and a microphone is set up in front of her. She's turned to the camera and smiling.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller singing and playing piano

Image

Bettye Miller singing into a microphone while playing piano on stage with (likely) Milt Abel. A tear in the photograph makes only the double bass...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Board members, nurses, physicians, and a patient

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Board members, nurses, physicians, and a patient (all white) with KMBC radio journalists at Children's Mercy Hospital. They are sitting in a circle...

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

Cheatham's Jazz Showcase performing

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"Cheatham's Jazz Showcase" performance showing vocalist Gene Lee in a white jacket in front of a microphone while the rest of the band is behind him...

Date Published
1959
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Cheatham's Jazz Showcase performing

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"Cheatham's Jazz Showcase" performance showing vocalist Gene Lee in a white jacket in front of a microphone while the rest of the band is behind him...

Date Published
1959
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Cheathams Jazz Showcase

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Photo of Jimmy Cheatham leading a band at the Musicians Club in Buffalo, New York with Gene Lee in a white jacket singing at a microphone; Jimmy's...

Date Published
1959
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jazz band

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Unidentified jazz ensemble with singer performing; all African Americans and includes a double bassist, drummer, pianist and woman singer in front of...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Performer at the Jewel Box Lounge

Image

Unidentified white drag queen with outstretched arms in front of a microphone on stage at the Jewel Box Lounge in Kansas City; she's wearing a black...

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

Performer at the Jewel Box Lounge

Image

Unidentified white drag queen performing in front of a microphone at the Jewel Box Lounge in Kansas City; she's wearing a blue dress and facing the...

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

Singing at the Jewel Box

Image

Unidentified white drag queen singing with outspread arms in front of a microphone on stage at the Jewel Box in Kansas City; she's wearing a strapless...

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

Skip Arnold performing at the Jewel Box Lounge

Image

Skip Arnold, in drag, singing in front of a microphone on stage at the Jewel Box Lounge in Kansas City; she's wearing a blue, floral patterned, dress...

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

Skip Arnold performing at the Jewel Box Lounge

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Drag queen Skip Arnold performing in front of a microphone at the Jewel Box Lounge in Kansas City; behind her is a piano covered in a pink drop cloth...

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

Ted Malone and a crew broadcast from a rooftop stage during an auto show

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Ted Malone laughs as he stands on a rooftop stage with his right foot propped up on a cross board during a broadcast from an auto show in Jamestown...

Date Published
February-1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Ted Malone broadcasts from a stage during an auto show

Image

Ted Malone stands behind a music stand and a microphone next to an unidentified white man during an auto show at Jamestown, New York. Another white...

Date Published
February-1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Ted Malone parties at WABB

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Ted Malone broadcasting at WABB radio station, in Mobile, Alabama an American Broadcasting Company station. An American Broadcasting Company banner...

Date Published
1948
1951
Member of
Ted Malone Collection
  • Clear selected
  • Microphone
  • 1951-1960

Member of

  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (10)
  • GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection (5)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (4)
  • Ted Malone Collection (3)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (23)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (18)
  • Gelatin silver prints (18)
  • Group portraits (15)
  • Snapshots (12)
  • Portrait photographs (8)
  • Color photographs (5)
  • Slides (5)
  • Promotional photographs (2)
  • Publicity photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (1)
  • (-) 1951-1960 (23)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (14)
  • Men, White (14)
  • Piano (14)
  • Double bass (13)
  • Jazz musicians (13)
  • Double bassists (12)
  • Pianists (12)
  • Drum set (11)
  • Musical instruments (11)
  • African American women (10)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (9)
  • African American men (8)
  • Porches (8)
  • Jazz musicians, White (6)
  • Audiences (5)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects (5)
  • Drag queens (5)
  • Drag shows (5)
  • Gay men (5)
  • Entertainers (4)
  • Gay bars (4)
  • African American band directors (3)
  • Band directors (3)
  • Jazz singers (3)
  • Radio personalities (3)
  • Saxophone (3)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Trombone (3)
  • Trombonists (3)
  • Women pianists (3)
  • African American women jazz singers (2)
  • Big bands (2)
  • Radio broadcasting--Equipment and supplies (2)
  • Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery (2)
  • Women jazz musicians (2)
  • Autographs (1)
  • Automobiles--Exhibitions (1)
  • Balloon decorations (1)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Carnival (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Children--Hospital care (1)
  • Hospital administrators (1)
  • Hospital patients (1)
  • Laughter (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Party decorations (1)
  • Physicians (1)
  • Radio audiences (1)
  • Radio talk show hosts (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • Women jazz singers (1)
  • (-) Microphone (23)

Subjects, Community

  • LGBTQ+ people (5)
  • White gay men (5)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (5)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (5)
  • Jamestown (N.Y.) (2)
  • Mobile (Ala.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (10)
  • Brown, Corky (8)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (3)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (3)
  • Copeland, Calvin (Cubby) (3)
  • Crump, Bob (3)
  • Evans, Jerry (Musician) (3)
  • Lee, Gene (3)
  • Legge, Jimmy (3)
  • Malone, Ted, 1908-1989 (3)
  • Riding, Albert (Eggie) (3)
  • Shareef, Museyf (3)
  • Shepard, Elvin (3)
  • Arnold, Skip (2)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (1)

Date Published

  • 1951 (13)
  • 1960 (12)
  • 1959-11 (5)
  • 1959 (3)
  • 1953-02 (2)
  • 1948 (1)

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