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Ace Nite Club

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Ace Nite Club, located at 700 E. 12th Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Two cars are parked on the street in front and an unidentified man stands next to...

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

Aerial view of the Children's Mercy Hospital buildings

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Birdseye view of Children's Mercy Hospital. The large building toward the right is the main hospital building, and the smaller building toward rear of...

Date Published
January-01-1937
December-31-1937
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children outside on the lawn

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Ten white girls and boys outside on the hospital lawn posing for a photo. Six are seated in a rolling hospital cart; one girl is seated on a tricycle...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Class of 1933 group photo at Lincoln High School

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Class of 1933 group photo at Lincoln High School in Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
1933
Member of
Brian Thurn Collection

Co-ed group on the grounds of Western Seminary

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An large unidentified co-ed group of African American men, women, and children and one white man seated in the center on the ground in the photograph...

Date Published
1929
1949
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Count Basie and His Orchestra

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Poster advertising concert at Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, on Monday, April 11, 1938, featuring Count Basie and His Orchestra along with Jimmy...

Date Published
April-11-1938
Member of
Brian Thurn Collection

Crowd lined up for Irving Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band" at Esquire Theatre

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Crowd lined up to see Irving Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band" outside the Esquire Theatre, 211 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. Note attached to photo...

Date Published
August-19-1938
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Crowd lined up to see "Bowy Bill" in the lobby of the Tower Theatre

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Crowd lined up to see the film "Bowy Bill" in the lobby of the Tower Theatre, 213 E 12th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
1935
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Crowd lined up to see "One Night of Love" at Tower Theatre

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Crowd lined up to see the film "One Night of Love" outside the Tower Theatre at 213 E 12th, Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
September-15-1934
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Crowd lined up to see "She Couldn't Take It"; outside the Tower Theatre

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Crowd lined up to see the film "She Couldn't Take It"; outside the Tower Theatre, 213 E 12th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
1935
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Crowd lined up to see the film "One Night of Love" in the lobby of Tower Theatre

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Crowd lined up to see the film "One Night of Love" in the lobby of the Tower Theatre, 213 E 12th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
September-15-1934
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter and Maxine Gray

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Dave Dexter speaking with Maxine Gray in Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri. Dexter is holding a pencil and pad of paper and turned toward Gray...

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

Dave Dexter interviewing Sonja Henie

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Dave Dexter and an unidentified reporter interviewing Sonja Henie. Dexter and Henie are sitting on a wicker sofa. Dexter is looking at Henie who is...

Date Published
1937
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter interviewing Sonja Henie

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Dave Dexter interviewing Sonja Henie while sitting on a wicker sofa. Dexter is holding a paper and pencil while looking at Henie who is looking up and...

Date Published
1937
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Earl E Jameson and Sam Abend by truck

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Earl E Jameson, left and Sam Abend, right, in suits and ties stand next to Free Movies For Shut-Ins white truck parked in street outside unknown...

Date Published
1932
Member of
Baron Missakian Collection

Exterior view of Children's Mercy Hospital

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Exterior front view of Children's Mercy Hospital from across and down the street. On the right of the photo is a chalkboard sign reading "We need 500...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Exterior view of Children's Mercy Hospital

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Exterior front view of Children's Mercy Hospital at 1710 Independence Ave. A row of trees are in front and trolley tracks over bricked pavement are...

Date Published
January-01-1937
December-31-1937
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Exterior view of Children's Mercy Hospital

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Exterior view of Children's Mercy Hospital's Northeast view showing roof for air therapy, open air porch behind heavy vines 3rd floor.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Exterior view of Nurse Hall

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Exterior view of Nurse Hall with students (white women) walking toward steps to outer sidewalk where several other females are approaching from the...

Date Published
January-01-1937
December-31-1937
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Exterior view of Nurse Hall

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Exterior view of Nurse Hall showing main entrance and landscaping.

Date Published
January-01-1937
December-31-1937
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Exterior view of the hospital

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Exterior view of Children's Mercy Hospital taken from across the street and to the right. Trees and parked cars are also seen in front of the building...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Harriette W. Cookingham stands next to L. Perry Cookingham outside Union Station

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Harriette W. Cookingham in black dress, fascinator hat, gloves, and fur scarf stands next to L. Perry Cookingham, who is pointing off into the...

Date Published
1940
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Head shot portrait of a woman looking at the photographer over her right shoulder

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A studio head shot portrait of an unidentified African American woman looking over her right shoulder to smile at the photographer. She wears a dark...

Date Published
1931
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Horse drawn parade float

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Two horses pulling the hospital's float for the United Campaign Parade. Glover Martin is holding Children's Mercy Hospital sign with Cleo Harlan...

Date Published
January-01-1939
December-31-1939
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Horse drawn parade float

Image

Two horses pulling the hospital's float for the United Campaign Parade. Glover Martin is holding Children's Mercy Hospital sign with Cleo Harlan...

Date Published
January-01-1939
December-31-1939
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

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  • Kansas City (Mo.)
  • 1931-1940

Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (19)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (15)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (8)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (7)
  • Brian Thurn Collection (3)
  • Betty Crow Collection (2)
  • Baron Missakian Collection (1)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (1)
  • Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (55)
  • posters (2)

Genres

  • Gelatin silver prints (53)
  • Black & white photographs (52)
  • Snapshots (38)
  • Group portraits (27)
  • Portrait photographs (15)
  • Architectural photographs (9)
  • Cityscape photographs (5)
  • Publicity photographs (4)
  • Color photographs (2)
  • Concert posters (2)
  • Posters (2)
  • Aerial views (1)
  • Collages (1)
  • Lithographs (1)
  • Screen prints (1)

Time Periods

  • 1921-1930 (3)
  • 1941-1950 (3)
  • (-) 1931-1940 (57)

Subjects

  • Buildings (12)
  • Theaters (12)
  • Women, White (12)
  • Hospital buildings (11)
  • Streets (10)
  • Nurses (9)
  • Men, White (7)
  • Trees (7)
  • Hospitals (6)
  • African American women (5)
  • Nursing students (5)
  • Signs and signboards (5)
  • Advertising--Motion pictures (4)
  • African American men (4)
  • Carriages and carts (4)
  • Marquees (4)
  • Actresses (3)
  • African American children (3)
  • African American jazz musicians (3)
  • Automobiles (3)
  • Boys (3)
  • Children, White (3)
  • Children--Hospital care (3)
  • College students (3)
  • High school students (3)
  • Horses (3)
  • Hospital patients (3)
  • Hospitals--Employees (3)
  • Jazz musicians (3)
  • Parade floats (3)
  • Parades (3)
  • Toddlers (3)
  • Trolley buses--Wires and wiring (3)
  • Women dancers (3)
  • Women figure skaters (3)
  • Crowds (2)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Girls (2)
  • Lobbies (Rooms) (2)
  • Nightclubs (2)
  • Tricycles (2)
  • Uniforms (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • African American high school students (1)
  • African American teenage boys (1)
  • African American teenage girls (1)
  • African American teenagers (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Bandages and bandaging (1)
  • Brass instruments (1)
  • Central business districts (1)
  • Chimneys (1)
  • Choirs (Music) (1)
  • Choral conductors (1)
  • City managers (1)
  • Climbing plants (1)
  • Coats (1)
  • Conductors (Music) (1)
  • Dance halls (1)
  • Dance music (1)
  • Dogs (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Dwellings (1)
  • Flags (1)
  • Fur garments (1)
  • Guitar players (1)
  • Infants (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Literature--Societies, etc. (1)
  • Marching bands (1)
  • Mother and child (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Percussion instruments (1)
  • Photographs (1)
  • Portraits, Group (1)
  • Rifles (1)
  • Roofs (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (1)
  • Sound recordings (1)
  • Street photography (1)
  • Taxicabs (1)
  • Toys (1)
  • Triangle (Musical instrument) (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Vaudeville (1)
  • Wagons (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • 12th Street (11)
  • Grand Avenue (2)
  • 11th Street (1)
  • 14th Street (1)
  • Broadway Boulevard (1)
  • Central Street (1)
  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (1)
  • (-) Kansas City (Mo.) (57)

Subjects, People

  • Christiansen, Helen (3)
  • Harlan, Cleo (3)
  • Henie, Sonja, 1912-1969 (3)
  • Martin, Glover (3)
  • Osborn, Martha (2)
  • Abend, Sam J. (1)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (1)
  • Benny, Jack, 1894-1974 (1)
  • Carson, Jack, 1910-1963 (1)
  • Coleman, Joe (Musician) (1)
  • Dexter, Dave (1)
  • Gray, Maxine (1)
  • Holmes, D. A. (Mrs.) (1)
  • Jameson, Earl E. (1)
  • Lee, Julia, 1902-1958 (1)
  • Lovett, Baby (1)
  • Messersmith, Agnes (1)
  • Santa Claus (Fictitious character) (1)

Date Published

  • 1931 (16)
  • 1940 (16)
  • 1935 (9)
  • 1937-01-01 (4)
  • 1937-12-31 (4)
  • 1936 (3)
  • 1937 (3)
  • 1939-01-01 (3)
  • 1939-12-31 (3)
  • 1926 (2)
  • 1933 (2)
  • 1934-09-15 (2)
  • 1995 (2)
  • 2000 (2)
  • 1928 (1)
  • 1929 (1)
  • 1932 (1)
  • 1933-08 (1)
  • 1934-01-01 (1)
  • 1934-12-31 (1)
  • 1935-04 (1)
  • 1935-04-13 (1)
  • 1936-08 (1)
  • 1938-04-11 (1)
  • 1938-08-19 (1)
  • 1939 (1)
  • 1940-01-01 (1)
  • 1940-05 (1)
  • 1940-11-20 (1)
  • 1940-12-31 (1)
  • 1941 (1)
  • 1949 (1)
  • 1950 (1)
  • 1960 (1)

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