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"Hurdy-Gurdy" pianola jukebox advertising "Coney Island" at the Uptown Theater

Image

A "Hurdy-Gurdy" pianola jukebox advertising the film "Coney Island" at the Uptown Theater at 37th and Broadway, Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
1943
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

18th Street and the Paseo in the 1940s

Image

Street's hotel and environs, 18th and Paseo; Kansas City, Missouri, with people walking on the sidewalks and cars parked along the street.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

3rd Annual Thanksgiving Day Matinee Dance

Image

Poster advertising the third annual Thanksgiving Day Matinee Dance sponsored by R.T. Coles Veterans Training School from 2PM to 6PM at Prospect Hall...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Brian Thurn Collection

America's Greatest Quartet Ink Spots

Image

Poster advertising concert on Sunday, May 30, 1943, at Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City; concert featured the Ink Spots and Lucky Millinder and his...

Date Published
1943
Member of
Brian Thurn Collection

American Red Cross building

Image

American Red Cross building (once the Ararat Shrine Temple; later the Victoria, Capri and Lyric Theatres) at 11th and Central, Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
1941
1948
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Baton twirlers

Image

African American female baton twirlers perform on the court of the gymnasium of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Becky Windham at Fairyland Park

Image

Waist-up photo of Becky Windham seated sideways to the left with head turned towards the camera, smiling, in front of a wall with a curtain hanging to...

Date Published
August-1943
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Becky Windham at Fairyland Park

Image

Waist-up photo of a serious-looking Becky Windham (likely) in a shirt with a broad stripe across the chest, seated in front of a wall with a curtain...

Date Published
August-1943
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Becky Windham at Fairyland Park

Image

Waist-up photo of Becky Windham smiling in a shirt with a broad stripe across the chest, seated in front of a wall with a curtain hanging to the right...

Date Published
August-1943
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Becky Windham at Fairyland Park

Image

Waist-up photo of Becky Windham seated sideways to the right with head turned towards the camera, smiling, in front of a wall with a curtain hanging...

Date Published
August-1943
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Burglary and Robbery Bureau of 1945

Image

Group photo of the Burglary and Robbery Bureau of the Kansas City Police. Everyone is looking forward and smiling. Sitting in the front row (left to...

Date Published
1945
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra

Image

Poster advertising concert at Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, on Sunday, October 11, 1942, featuring Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club Orchestral...

Date Published
1942
Member of
Brian Thurn Collection

CBD looking West - 29th floor City Hall

Image

Cityscape of Kansas City from City Hall looking NorthWest from the 29th floor.

Date Published
1942
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Chained cut-out of Betty Grable advertising "Coney Island" at the Uptown Theater

Image

Chained cut-out of Betty Grable advertising the film "Coney Island" (the cut-out was previously stolen and replaced) at the Uptown Theater at 37th and...

Date Published
May-1943
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Chas. A. Taylor's Latest Edition of Bronze Manikins

Image

Poster advertising performances at Scott's Club, 18th Street and Highland, Kansas City, for one week starting March 6 through Sunday, March 10...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Brian Thurn Collection

Chauncey Downs Orchestra at Fairyland Park

Image

Chauncey Downs Orchestra performing at Fairyland Park on Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The musicians are on stage in a band shell with a...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Child under medical instrument

Image

White boy patient lying on an examining table with an unidentified domed machine covering middle portion of his body. Looking over at the camera.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Children in wheelchairs in the park

Image

Row of white children (one girl, the rest boys) in wheelchairs riding on the Blue Bird Walk that encircled the back yard stadium of Children's Mercy...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Chorus gathered for a photo in a parlor

Image

A group photograph of a co-ed African American chorus with an unidentified white male choral director standing and crouching in rows in a crowded...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Classroom setting at Western Seminary

Image

An African American male instructor wearing a three-piece suit, stands in the center back teaching clerical skills to a class of African American co...

Date Published
1949
1951
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Clifford Warren

Image

Headshot of Major Clifford Warren, Leon Jordan's KCPD partner. Warren is wearing a dress uniform and hat along with badges and insignia of the Kansas...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Co-ed group by the porch of Western Seminary

Image

Four rows of an African American co-ed group of the Literary Society just in front of the porch of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in...

Date Published
1941
1959
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Co-ed group of Western Seminary students

Image

An unidentified African American co-ed group standing in a "V" formation for a photograph at Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas...

Date Published
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

co-ed group on the grounds and porch of Western Seminary

Image

An unidentified African American co-ed group of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The front row of girls are...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

co-ed group on the grounds and porch of Western Seminary

Image

An unidentified African American co-ed group of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The front row of boys are...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

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  • Kansas City (Mo.)
  • 1941-1950

Member of

  • Dolores Hobley Collection (51)
  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (45)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (40)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (38)
  • Brian Thurn Collection (17)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (12)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (4)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (4)
  • Helen Xarhis-DePasco Collection (2)
  • Betty Crow Collection (1)
  • Don Tiff Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (205)
  • posters (9)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (204)
  • Gelatin silver prints (204)
  • Snapshots (141)
  • Group portraits (101)
  • Portrait photographs (100)
  • Publicity photographs (17)
  • Posters (9)
  • Lithographs (8)
  • Cityscape photographs (5)
  • Concert posters (5)
  • Dance posters (3)
  • Architectural photographs (2)
  • Views (2)
  • Cityscapes (1)
  • Color photographs (1)
  • Reproductions (1)
  • Screen prints (1)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (6)
  • 1931-1940 (3)
  • (-) 1941-1950 (215)

Subjects

  • African American men (38)
  • Men, White (35)
  • African American women (34)
  • Theaters (34)
  • Jazz musicians (32)
  • Jazz musicians, White (29)
  • Women, White (29)
  • Marquees (26)
  • Advertising--Motion pictures (25)
  • Statues (18)
  • Art, African (17)
  • Academic costume (16)
  • Band directors (16)
  • Big bands (16)
  • College graduates (15)
  • African American jazz musicians (14)
  • Buildings (12)
  • College students (12)
  • Children, White (8)
  • Jazz singers (8)
  • Boys (7)
  • Dance music (7)
  • Pianists (7)
  • Children--Hospital care (6)
  • Hospital patients (6)
  • Parks (6)
  • Piano (6)
  • African American children (5)
  • Girls (5)
  • Seminarians (5)
  • Politicians (4)
  • Saxophonists (4)
  • Soldiers (4)
  • Streets (4)
  • Toddlers (4)
  • African American teenage girls (3)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (3)
  • Bouquets (3)
  • Choral conductors (3)
  • Cities and towns (3)
  • Dances (3)
  • Military uniforms (3)
  • Teachers (3)
  • Audiences (2)
  • Automobiles (2)
  • Cameras (2)
  • Choirs (Music) (2)
  • College teachers (2)
  • Conductors (Music) (2)
  • Easter Bunny (2)
  • Easter decorations (2)
  • Exercise (2)
  • Fences (2)
  • Hospital buildings (2)
  • Hotels (2)
  • Identification photographs (2)
  • Infants (2)
  • Jewelry (2)
  • Liberty Memorial (Kansas City, Mo.) (2)
  • Literature--Societies, etc. (2)
  • Monster films (2)
  • Parties (2)
  • Street photography (2)
  • Trees (2)
  • Wheelchairs (2)
  • Actresses (1)
  • African American police (1)
  • African American politicians (1)
  • African American teenage boys (1)
  • Armed Forces--Officers (1)
  • Bandages and bandaging (1)
  • Basketball players (1)
  • Basketball uniforms (1)
  • Baton twirling (1)
  • Brick roads (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Cigarette smokers (1)
  • City and town life (1)
  • City managers (1)
  • Clergy (1)
  • Clubs (1)
  • Coloring books (1)
  • Corsages (1)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Crutches (1)
  • Detectives (1)
  • Dinners and dining (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Evergreens (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Grapes (1)
  • Homecoming (1)
  • Horsemanship (1)
  • Horses (1)
  • Hospital administrators (1)
  • Hospital beds (1)
  • Hotel restaurants (1)
  • Jazz audiences (1)
  • Jukeboxes (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Medical instruments and apparatus (1)
  • Mother and child (1)
  • Motion picture theaters (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Physicians (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Playgrounds (1)
  • Public health (1)
  • Quiltmakers (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (1)
  • Sailors (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • Shorthand--Study and teaching (1)
  • Sidewalks (1)
  • Sneakers (1)
  • Snow (1)
  • Stables (1)
  • Stadiums (1)
  • Stone walls (1)
  • Surgical plaster casts (1)
  • Theater (1)
  • Trellises (1)
  • Triangle (Musical instrument) (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Typewriters (1)
  • Typewriting--Study and teaching (1)
  • Wagons (1)
  • Women jazz singers (1)
  • World War (1939-1945) (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • 12th Street (22)
  • Grand Avenue (16)
  • Broadway Boulevard (13)
  • 18th and Vine District (11)
  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (4)
  • Swope Park (4)
  • 14th Street (3)
  • Central Street (3)
  • 11th Street (2)
  • 18th Street (1)
  • Paseo Boulevard (1)
  • (-) Kansas City (Mo.) (215)

Subjects, People

  • Jordan, Leon M. (Leon Mercer), 1905-1970 (26)
  • Durrett, Warren (25)
  • Jordan, Orchid, 1910-1995 (23)
  • Bolling, Richard, 1916-1991 (4)
  • Windham, Becky (4)
  • Gay, Ruth Anne (3)
  • Lovett, Baby (3)
  • Vale, Teddy (3)
  • Dairs, Lotty (2)
  • Grable, Betty, 1916-1973 (2)
  • Holmes, D. A. (Mrs.) (2)
  • Michaels, Jean (2)
  • Bacon, Trevor (1)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (1)
  • Bates, Peg Lee (1)
  • Brentari, John (1)
  • Brown, Roderick (1)
  • Burnette, Smiley, 1911-1967 (1)
  • Carson, Jack, 1910-1963 (1)
  • Collins, Simon D.J. (1)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (1)
  • Cox, Ida, 1889-1967 (1)
  • DePasco, Helen Xarhis, 1921-1992 (1)
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 (1)
  • Hoover, O. U. (1)
  • Joffee, Katherine Redman, 1912-1999 (1)
  • Laird, Mary Minor (1)
  • Laur, Lois (1)
  • Martin, Elizabeth (Superintendent) (1)
  • Mason, Millie (1)
  • Maye, Marilyn (1)
  • Millinder, Lucky (1)
  • Perry, John Edward, 1870-1962 (1)
  • Proctor, Alexander Phimister, 1860-1950 (1)
  • Redmond, Joseph K., 1913-1996 (1)
  • Schenck, Jack (1)
  • Simpson, Jeanne (1)
  • Stinson, Ray (1)
  • Tharpe, Rosetta, 1915-1973 (1)
  • Tiff, Don, 1910-1998 (1)
  • Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 (1)
  • Van Asdell, Jimmy (1)
  • Webb, Laura (1)
  • Wells, Bob (Musician) (1)

Events

  • Kangaroo Hop (1947 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1950 (104)
  • 1941 (74)
  • 1945 (20)
  • 1949 (8)
  • 1942 (7)
  • 1943 (7)
  • 1945-11-15 (6)
  • 1947-02-03 (5)
  • 1943-08 (4)
  • 1944-04 (4)
  • 1946-03-01 (4)
  • 1948 (4)
  • 1943-01 (3)
  • 1946 (3)
  • 1949-02 (3)
  • 1931 (2)
  • 1943-03-01 (2)
  • 1947 (2)
  • 1950-03-20 (2)
  • 1951 (2)
  • 1954 (2)
  • 1959 (2)
  • 1939 (1)
  • 1941-01-01 (1)
  • 1941-02 (1)
  • 1941-10 (1)
  • 1941-12-31 (1)
  • 1942-01-01 (1)
  • 1942-04 (1)
  • 1942-05 (1)
  • 1942-07 (1)
  • 1942-12-31 (1)
  • 1943-03 (1)
  • 1943-04-15 (1)
  • 1943-05 (1)
  • 1943-08-01 (1)
  • 1943-08-14 (1)
  • 1943-08-20 (1)
  • 1943-08-31 (1)
  • 1943-09 (1)
  • 1943-12 (1)
  • 1944-05 (1)
  • 1945-01-01 (1)
  • 1945-07-23 (1)
  • 1945-07-28 (1)
  • 1945-10-19 (1)
  • 1945-11-01 (1)
  • 1945-11-30 (1)
  • 1945-12-31 (1)
  • 1946-04-26 (1)
  • 1946-06-01 (1)
  • 1947-03 (1)
  • 1947-04-25 (1)
  • 1947-11-27 (1)
  • 1949-05-16 (1)
  • 1950-04 (1)
  • 1950-10-12 (1)
  • 1958 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • 2000 (1)

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