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"Cheyenne" star Clint Walker with Joseph Redmond (far right) and unidentified members of the KMBC staff

Image

"Cheyenne" star Clint Walker with Joseph Redmond (far right) and unidentified members of the KMBC staff in the KMBC studio at 11th and Central, Kansas...

Date Published
1959
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Aerial shot advertising "Ben-Hur" at the Capri Theatre

Image

Aerial shot of building and marquee advertising "Ben-Hur" at the Capri Theatre (once the Ararat Shrine Temple and then the Victoria Theatre; later the...

Date Published
November-1959
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Band playing at the Jockey Jazz Club

Image

A band sits on stage likely playing jazz at the Jockey Club, 10th and Paseo in Kansas City, Missouri. Farthest to the left is Bill Jones playing drums...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel at the zoo

Image

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel posing together for a photo while at the zoo. Abel has an arm around Miller's shoulders and they're standing in front of a...

Date Published
1958
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Boy holding Easter basket by Easter Bunny statue

Image

Little white boy smiling and holding an Easter basket in his left hand and a stuffed animal in his right while standing in front of a statue of the...

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

Boy standing near large Easter Bunny statue

Image

Little white boy smiling and standing on the hospital lawn on one side of a mesh fence with a large statue of the Easter Bunny on the other.

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

Boy standing on the sidewalk in a flat cap

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An unidentified African American boy stands on the street wearing a flat cap in Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
May-1954
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Boy standing on the sidewalk in a flat cap and holding his thumb in his pocket

Image

An unidentified African American boy stands on the street wearing a flat cap and holding his thumb in his pocket in Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
May-1954
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

British doctor, Barbara Moore

Image

British doctor, Barbara Moore taking a rest break from her transcontinental hike in Kansas City, Mo.; sitting on a KMBC station vehicle.

Date Published
June-01-1960
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Bundles of lumber in subsiding flood waters in the West Bottoms

Image

Bundles of lumber in subsiding flood waters in the West Bottoms.

Date Published
1951
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Business skills students

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An African American male instructor leans against a wall on the right back as he speaks with African American co-ed business skills students crowded...

Date Published
1957
1959
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

City workers and police working in street after water subsides

Image

City workers and police working in street after water subsides.

Date Published
1951
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham 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

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

Collapsed wall of building and subsiding flood water in West Bottoms

Image

Collapsed wall of building and subsiding flood water in West Bottoms.

Date Published
1951
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Cookingham and unidentified actress

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L. Perry Cookingham poses for picture with unidentified Starlight actress

Date Published
1950
1959
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Crowd lined up to see "The Robe" outside the Orpheum Theater

Image

Crowd lined up to see the film "The Robe" outside the Orpheum Theater, 1214 Baltimore Avenue; Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
September-20-1953
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Damaged streets and buildings

Image

Damaged streets and buildings from the 1951 flood.

Date Published
1951
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Dead livestock in the aftermath of the 1951 floods

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Dead livestock in the aftermath of the 1951 floods.

Date Published
1951
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Debris and dead livestock strewn street

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Debris and dead livestock strewn street.

Date Published
1951
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Delta Boys presents Breakfast Dance

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Hand drawn poster advertising New Year's Eve Breakfast Dance, Friday, December 31 from 11PM to 5AM, at the Beau Brummel Club, 1729 Lydia, Kansas City...

Date Published
1951
1955
Member of
Brian Thurn Collection

Dog belonging to the Jordans

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An unidentified black dog belonging to the Jordans sitting on a small rug. The dog is looking to the side.

Date Published
1955
1960
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Earle's Fall Fashion and Fur Show

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Poster advertising Earle's Fall Fashion and Fur Show on Sunday, October 12, 1952, 8PM, at Music Hall in Municipal Auditorium; attractions include...

Date Published
1952
Member of
Brian Thurn Collection

Edward Pate with Richard Bolling and Jeffrey Paul Hillelson

Image

Radio station owner Edward Pate with Richard Bolling and Jeffrey Paul Hillelson at the T.B. Watkins Homes dedication ceremony in Kansas City, Missouri...

Date Published
September-1953
Member of
Richard W. Bolling Collection

Eugene "Jeep" Griddine at Club Trocadero

Image

Eugene "Jeep" Griddine playing guitar; Club Trocadero; Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Priscilla Bowman Collection

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  • Kansas City (Mo.)
  • 1951-1960

Member of

  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (40)
  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (27)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (26)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (21)
  • Brian Thurn Collection (10)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (10)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (7)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (7)
  • Priscilla Bowman Collection (4)
  • Betty Crow Collection (2)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (1)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (146)
  • posters (10)

Genres

  • Gelatin silver prints (143)
  • Black & white photographs (142)
  • Snapshots (90)
  • Portrait photographs (68)
  • Group portraits (54)
  • Views (32)
  • Cityscapes (29)
  • Posters (10)
  • Lithographs (8)
  • Publicity photographs (7)
  • Architectural photographs (3)
  • Color photographs (2)
  • Dance posters (2)
  • Aerial photographs (1)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)
  • Collages (1)
  • Concert posters (1)
  • Drawings (1)
  • Performing arts posters (1)
  • Screen prints (1)
  • Theatrical posters (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (6)
  • 1961-1970 (6)
  • (-) 1951-1960 (156)

Subjects

  • Floods (33)
  • Politicians (23)
  • Theaters (14)
  • African American men (13)
  • Jazz musicians (13)
  • Men, White (11)
  • Statues (10)
  • African American women (8)
  • Marquees (8)
  • African American children (7)
  • Children, White (7)
  • City managers (7)
  • Jazz musicians, White (7)
  • Band directors (6)
  • Boys (6)
  • Fires (6)
  • Hospital buildings (6)
  • Advertising--Motion pictures (5)
  • Art, African (5)
  • Buildings (5)
  • College students (5)
  • Women, White (5)
  • African American jazz musicians (4)
  • Hospital patients (4)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (4)
  • Teachers (4)
  • Children--Hospital care (3)
  • Dance music (3)
  • Dogs (3)
  • Fences (3)
  • Fire fighters (3)
  • Hospitals (3)
  • Motion picture theaters (3)
  • Musicians (3)
  • Pianists (3)
  • Postal service--Employees (3)
  • Street-railroads (3)
  • Actors (2)
  • African American detectives (2)
  • African American freemasons (2)
  • Airplanes (2)
  • Armed Forces--Officers (2)
  • Children (2)
  • Double bassists (2)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Easter Bunny (2)
  • Keyboard players (2)
  • Literature--Societies, etc. (2)
  • Lobbies (Rooms) (2)
  • Nurses (2)
  • Photographs (2)
  • Picnics (2)
  • Pipe smokers (2)
  • Saxophonists (2)
  • Tobacco pipes (2)
  • Actresses (1)
  • African American families (1)
  • African American teenage girls (1)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Artists (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
  • Beauty operators (1)
  • Big bands (1)
  • Chimneys (1)
  • Clowns (1)
  • Columns (1)
  • Conductors (Music) (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Dances (1)
  • Easter decorations (1)
  • Easter eggs (1)
  • Employees (1)
  • Employment agencies (1)
  • Eyeglasses (1)
  • Fashion shows (1)
  • Federal government--Officials and employees (1)
  • Festivals (1)
  • Fingerprints--Identification (1)
  • Folk art (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Hides and skins (1)
  • Hospital buildings--Air conditioning (1)
  • Hotels (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Livestock (1)
  • Male musicians (1)
  • Musical theater (1)
  • Older men (1)
  • Painters (1)
  • Parties (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Portraits (1)
  • Portraits, Group (1)
  • Postmasters (1)
  • Presidents--U.S. states (1)
  • Public health (1)
  • Railroad trains (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Rivers (1)
  • Seminarians (1)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (1)
  • Storefronts (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Stuffed animals (Toys) (1)
  • Theater (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Uniforms (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (42)
  • 11th Street (8)
  • 12th Street (6)
  • Broadway Boulevard (5)
  • 14th Street (2)
  • 18th and Vine District (2)
  • Central Street (1)
  • (-) Kansas City (Mo.) (156)

Subjects, People

  • Bolling, Richard, 1916-1991 (19)
  • Jordan, Leon M. (Leon Mercer), 1905-1970 (13)
  • Jordan, Orchid, 1910-1995 (13)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (7)
  • Durrett, Warren (6)
  • Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 (5)
  • Redmond, Joseph K., 1913-1996 (4)
  • Griddine, Eugene (2)
  • Jones, Willie, 1929-1991 (2)
  • Santa Claus (Fictitious character) (2)
  • Symington, Stuart, 1901-1988 (2)
  • Truman, Margaret, 1924-2008 (2)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (1)
  • Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975 (1)
  • Bland, Ted (1)
  • Bolling, Barbara, 1909-1996 (1)
  • Bolling, Jim (1)
  • Clooney, Rosemary (1)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (1)
  • Fisher, Williams (Pianist) (1)
  • Hillelson, Jeffrey Paul, 1919-2003 (1)
  • Jackson, Arthur, 1920-2006 (1)
  • Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 (1)
  • Johnson, Rosa B. (1)
  • Kennedy, Caroline, 1957- (1)
  • Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 (1)
  • Lee, Julia, 1902-1958 (1)
  • Lovett, Baby (1)
  • MacRae, Gordon (1)
  • Matthews, Pee Wee (Musician) (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (1)
  • Miller, Big (1)
  • Moore, Barbara, 1903-1977 (1)
  • Moore, Charley (1)
  • Pate, Edward (1)
  • Randall, William J. (1)
  • Rutledge, Wilbert E. (1)
  • Schweiger, Hans, 1906-2000 (1)
  • Scott, Gerald (Musician) (1)
  • Searcy, Roy (1)
  • Smith, Frank, 1932-1999 (1)
  • Spaulding, Marva Louis (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)
  • Walker, Clint, 1927- (1)

Date Published

  • 1951 (60)
  • 1960 (44)
  • 1955 (28)
  • 1954 (11)
  • 1959 (8)
  • 1953-09 (7)
  • 1958 (4)
  • 1964 (4)
  • 1951-07-14 (3)
  • 1955-01-01 (3)
  • 1960-07 (3)
  • 1948 (2)
  • 1949 (2)
  • 1952 (2)
  • 1953-09-20 (2)
  • 1954-05 (2)
  • 1954-08 (2)
  • 1956 (2)
  • 1957 (2)
  • 1957-02-13 (2)
  • 1957-06-23 (2)
  • 1957-08 (2)
  • 1959-11 (2)
  • 1965 (2)
  • 1995 (2)
  • 2000 (2)
  • 1941 (1)
  • 1950 (1)
  • 1951-06 (1)
  • 1951-07 (1)
  • 1951-11-01 (1)
  • 1952-05-28 (1)
  • 1954-04 (1)
  • 1954-12 (1)
  • 1955-09-26 (1)
  • 1956-11 (1)
  • 1959-05-13 (1)
  • 1959-08 (1)
  • 1960-06-01 (1)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1962 (1)

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