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Balladiers performing at the Service Awards dinner

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Three young white men, The Balladiers, performing at the Service Awards dinner. One is playing the guitar while all sing. The audience (African...

Date Published
February-19-1964
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Buck Clayton playing with Eddie Condon's band

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Buck Clayton performing in a club with Eddie Condon's Band; seen are Eddie Condon, guitar, Leonard Gaskin, bassist, Herbie Hall, clarinet, likely...

Date Published
August-29-1959
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Coffeehouse entertainers

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Group of unidentified people at the Supreme Bean coffeehouse listening to two unidentified entertainers between two large speakers (a white man and an...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Coffeehouse entertainers

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Group of unidentified people at the Supreme Bean coffeehouse listening to two unidentified entertainers between two large speakers (a white man and an...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Country music ensemble performing for children

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Four piece country music band with three guitarists and a fiddle player (all white). They are wearing cowboy attire, performing for patients (African...

Date Published
October-31-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Jay McShann playing piano with an unidentified combo

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Jay McShann playing piano with unidentified white male guitarist, bassist, and drummer; part of the audience is seen in front of the stage; unknown...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann, Gerald Spaits, and others performing on an outdoor stage

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Jay McShann performing on stage with Gerald Spait, bass, and other musicians at an unidentified outdoor concert; banners for Miller Genuine Draft are...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jeannie Cheatham, Bob Boss, and the rest of the Sweet Baby Blues Band

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Jeannie Cheatham at the piano with Bob Boss playing guitar next to her with the rest of the Sweet Baby Blues Band playing beyond them at "An Evening...

Date Published
September-26-2009
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Lil' Ed at the Grand Emporium

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Lil' Ed, singing and playing the guitar, leads a conga line of the audience through the seated audience at the Grand Emporium.

Date Published
May-15-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Performers at Bettye Miller's birthday party

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Unidentified white woman singing with an African American male bassist and white male guitarist in front of an audience during Bettye Miller's...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Performers at Bettye Miller's birthday party

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Unidentified group performing during Bettye Miller's birthday party. A woman is seated and singing into a microphone, a man is playing piano, and a...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Sam Myers and Anson Funderburgh

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Blues harmonica player and vocalist Sam Myers stands on the edge of the stage wearing a business suit and singing into a microphone as he holds a...

Date Published
July-1987
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Scene from "Negroid Evolution"

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Scene from the play "Negroid Evolution" produced and directed by Bettye Miller. A group of men and women are on stage dressed as enslaved persons in...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Scene from "Negroid Evolution"

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Scene from the play "Negroid Evolution" produced and directed by Bettye Miller. A group of men and women dressed as enslaved persons standing in front...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Two musicians performing for children

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Two white male country musicians performing for children (African American and white) at Children's Mercy Hospital. The men are playing a guitar and...

Date Published
1967
1968
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Violinist and guitarist playing for the children

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Sigma Alpha Iota Conservatory Sorority presenting a program for children (only white children in photo) at Children's Mercy Hospital on Halloween. One...

Date Published
October-31-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection
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Member of

  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (4)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (4)
  • GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection (2)
  • Jay McShann Collection (2)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (1)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (1)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (1)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (16)

Genres

  • Group portraits (16)
  • Snapshots (14)
  • Color photographs (9)
  • Black & white photographs (7)
  • Gelatin silver prints (7)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (4)
  • 1971-1980 (3)
  • 1941-1950 (2)
  • 1981-1990 (2)
  • 1991-2000 (2)
  • 2001-2010 (2)

Subjects

  • Men, White (11)
  • African American men (9)
  • Guitar (9)
  • Women, White (7)
  • Jazz musicians (6)
  • African American jazz musicians (5)
  • Jazz musicians, White (5)
  • African American women (4)
  • Double bassists (4)
  • Pianists (4)
  • Children--Hospital care (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Entertainers (3)
  • Harmonica players (3)
  • Hospital patients (3)
  • Musical instruments (3)
  • Piano (3)
  • Actors (2)
  • Actresses (2)
  • Blues musicians (2)
  • Children, White (2)
  • Coffeehouses (2)
  • Costume (2)
  • Cotton (2)
  • Country musicians (2)
  • Double bass (2)
  • Enslaved persons (2)
  • Fiddlers (2)
  • Gay men (2)
  • Harmonica (2)
  • Jazz singers (2)
  • Lesbians (2)
  • Musicians (2)
  • Signs and signboards (2)
  • Singers (2)
  • Sound--Equipment and supplies (2)
  • Violinists (2)
  • Wheelchairs (2)
  • Advertising (1)
  • African American children (1)
  • African American musicians (1)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Cowboys (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Hospital beds (1)
  • Hospitals--Employees (1)
  • Male musicians (1)
  • Musical groups (1)
  • Music fans (1)
  • Neon signs (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Violin (1)
  • Windows (1)
  • Women jazz musicians (1)
  • Women pianists (1)
  • (-) Audiences (16)
  • (-) Guitarists (16)

Subjects, Community

  • African American LGBTQ+ people (2)
  • LGBTQ+ events (2)
  • LGBTQ+ musicians (2)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (2)
  • LGBTQ+people (1)
  • LGBTQ+ people (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (4)

Subjects, People

  • McShann, Jay (2)
  • Boss, Bob (1)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (1)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (1)
  • Condon, Eddie, 1905-1973 (1)
  • Cutshall, Cutty (1)
  • Funderburgh, Anson (1)
  • Gaskin, Leonard (1)
  • Hall, Herb, 1907-1996 (1)
  • Lil' Ed (1)
  • Myers, Sam, 1936-2006 (1)
  • Schroeder, Gene (1)
  • Spaits, Gerald (1)
  • Wettling, George, 1907-1968 (1)

Events

  • Museum of Making Music's Annual Gala (7th : 2009 : Carlsbad, Calif.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1949 (2)
  • 1967-10-31 (2)
  • 1976 (2)
  • 1991 (2)
  • 2000 (2)
  • 1959-08-29 (1)
  • 1964-02-19 (1)
  • 1967 (1)
  • 1968 (1)
  • 1971 (1)
  • 1980 (1)
  • 1981 (1)
  • 1987-07 (1)
  • 1990 (1)
  • 2004-05-15 (1)
  • 2009-09-26 (1)

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