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Leon Jordan with police trainees

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Leon Jordan with eleven police trainees. Jordan is standing sixth from left. All the men are wearing light colored uniforms and standing in front of a...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan with several people in a restaurant

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Leon Jordan sitting with several unidentified people in a restaurant, possibly in Italy. A violinist is playing in the back of the restaurant. Jordan...

Date Published
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan with several people in a restaurant

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Leon Jordan sitting with several unidentified people in a restaurant, possibly in Italy. A violinist is playing in the back of the restaurant and...

Date Published
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan with three unidentified people on a garden path

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Leon Jordan with three unidentified people standing on a garden path, likely in Paris. A bed of flowers is growing behind the people and large...

Date Published
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan with two unidentified women

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Leon Jordan with two unidentified women in a crowd of people looking at statues, somewhere in Europe. Jordan is standing on the left and looking down...

Date Published
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan, Orchid Jordan, and Hendrik Jordense in front of a car and plane

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Leon Jordan, Orchid Jordan, and Hendrik Jordense standing in front of a car and plane on an airfield, likely James Spriggs Payne Airfield in Monrovia...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan, Orchid Jordan, and Hendrik Jordense in front of a car and plane

Image

Leon Jordan, Orchid Jordan, and Hendrik Jordense standing in front of a car and plane on an airfield, likely James Spriggs Payne Airfield in Monrovia...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Leon Jordan, Susan Maude Ramsey, and Orchid Jordan

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Leon Jordan, Susan Maude Ramsey (Orchid's mother), and Orchid Jordan standing left to right in the front lawn of an unidentified residence. All three...

Date Published
1955
1960
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Mai Padmore, Griff Davis, Muriel Davis, Leon Jordan, Orchid Jordan, and Bishop Brown

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Mai Padmore, Griff Davis, Muriel Davis, Leon Jordan, Orchid Jordan, and Bishop Brown standing left to right at Dorothy Madelyn's christening in...

Date Published
September-1953
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Missouri's 74th General Assembly

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Collection of portraits and names for all state officers and representatives of Missouri's 74th General Assembly, 1967-1968. The print includes oval...

Date Published
1967
1968
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Orchid and Leon Jordan in front of a car

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Orchid and Leon Jordan standing in front of a car and wooden garage in Kansas City. Orchid is wearing an animal print shoulder wrap. Leon is wearing a...

Date Published
1950
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Orchid and Leon Jordan in front of a car

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Orchid and Leon Jordan standing in front of a car and wooden garage in Kansas City. Orchid is wearing an animal print shoulder wrap. Leon is wearing a...

Date Published
1950
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Orchid and Leon Jordan with an assortment of masks

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Orchid and Leon Jordan with an assortment of masks from their African art collection in their Kansas City home. The masks are hung on a sheet hanging...

Date Published
1951
1955
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Orchid and Leon Jordan with an unidentified man and woman

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Orchid and Leon Jordan standing with an unidentified man and woman with an infant and little girl (likely children of the unidentified couple). They...

Date Published
1955
1960
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Orchid and Leon Jordan with Lavera Smith

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Orchid and Leon Jordan with an unidentified girl, possibly Lavera Smith, sitting on steps outside an entrance to the Jordan residence at 2745 Garfield...

Date Published
1951
1955
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Orchid and Leon Jordan with their African art collection

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Orchid and Leon Jordan standing with items from their African art collection, likely in Kansas City. Orchid is wearing a patterned dress and head wrap...

Date Published
1950
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Orchid and Leon Jordan with their African art collection

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Orchid and Leon Jordan standing with items from their African art collection, likely in Kansas City. Orchid is wearing a patterned dress and head wrap...

Date Published
1950
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Orchid and Leon Jordan with two unidentified people

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Orchid and Leon Jordan standing with two unidentified people in front of a car on an open dirt road in Liberia. Leon is standing in the back on the...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Orchid Jordan and Hendrick Jordense at James Spriggs Payne Airfield

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Orchid Jordan and Hendrick Jordense standing in front of a car and plane on an airfield, likely James Spriggs Payne Airfield in Monrovia. Leon Jordan...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Orchid Jordan and Hendrik Jordense at James Spriggs Payne Airfield

Image

Orchid Jordan and Hendrik Jordense standing in front of a car and plane on an airfield, likely James Spriggs Payne Airfield in Monrovia. Leon Jordan...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Orchid Jordan and Hendrik Jordense at James Spriggs Payne Airfield

Image

Orchid Jordan and Hendrik Jordense standing in front of a car and plane on an airfield, likely James Spriggs Payne Airfield in Monrovia. Leon Jordan...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Orchid Jordan, John Wright, Josephine Wright, and Leon Jordan

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Orchid Jordan, John Wright, Josephine Wright (Leon's maternal aunt), and Leon Jordan standing left to right in the front lawn of an unidentified...

Date Published
1955
1960
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Orchid Jordan, Leon Jordan, Mary Virginia Jacobs, John Wright, and Josephine Wright

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Orchid Jordan, Leon Jordan, Mary Virginia Jacobs (Leon's maternal grandmother), John Wright, and Josephine Wright (Leon's maternal aunt) standing left...

Date Published
1955
1960
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

People dining at outdoor tables

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People dining at outdoor tables, possibly at a restaurant or party in Monrovia. Everyone is wearing business dress clothing and sitting at tables...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

People sitting around a dining table outdoors

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People sitting around a dining table outdoors, possibly at a restaurant or party in Monrovia. The ocean and cars parked on the beach are visible...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

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  • Jordan, Leon M. (Leon Mercer), 1905-1970

Member of

  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (136)

Types

  • photographs (136)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (135)
  • Gelatin silver prints (135)
  • Portrait photographs (134)
  • Snapshots (128)
  • Group portraits (105)
  • Publicity photographs (7)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (96)
  • 1941-1950 (80)
  • 1961-1970 (7)

Subjects

  • Statues (19)
  • Art, African (17)
  • Parties (11)
  • Airplanes (7)
  • African American police (6)
  • Families (6)
  • African American politicians (4)
  • Buildings (4)
  • Police (4)
  • Restaurants (4)
  • Rites and ceremonies (4)
  • Landscape gardening (3)
  • Monuments (3)
  • Street life (3)
  • Tour guides (Persons) (3)
  • African American detectives (2)
  • Arc de Triomphe (Paris, France) (2)
  • Beaches (2)
  • Embassy buildings (2)
  • Gardens (2)
  • Identification photographs (2)
  • Violinists (2)
  • African American families (1)
  • African American men (1)
  • Baptism (1)
  • Castles (1)
  • Customs administration (1)
  • Detectives (1)
  • Fingerprints--Identification (1)
  • Folk art (1)
  • Fraternal organizations (1)
  • Huts (1)
  • Museums (1)
  • Piers (1)
  • Politicians (1)
  • Popes (1)
  • Stores, Retail (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (44)
  • Monrovia (Liberia) (34)
  • Liberia (14)
  • Paris (France) (9)
  • Europe (8)
  • Italy (7)
  • Robertsport (Liberia) (3)
  • Barcelona (Spain) (1)
  • Jefferson City (Mo.) (1)
  • London (England) (1)
  • Mediterranean Coast (Italy) (1)
  • Vatican City (1)

Subjects, People

  • Jordan, Orchid, 1910-1995 (52)
  • Tubman, William V. S., 1895-1971 (3)
  • Davis, Ilus W., 1917-1996 (2)
  • Dudley, Edward R., 1911-2005 (2)
  • Holliday, Harold L., Sr., 1918-1985 (2)
  • Holliday, Margaret (2)
  • Swinton, Lee Vertis, 1922-1994 (2)
  • Watkins, Bruce R. (Bruce Riley), 1924-1980 (2)
  • Watkins, Rhae (2)
  • Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958 (1)
  • (-) Jordan, Leon M. (Leon Mercer), 1905-1970 (136)

Date Published

  • 1952 (75)
  • 1947 (47)
  • 1950 (20)
  • 1955 (19)
  • 1960 (16)
  • 1941 (7)
  • 1945 (7)
  • 1946 (3)
  • 1965 (3)
  • 1948-02-01 (2)
  • 1950-03-20 (2)
  • 1951 (2)
  • 1963 (2)
  • 1970 (2)
  • 1949-09-01 (1)
  • 1953-09 (1)
  • 1955-02-12 (1)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1967 (1)
  • 1968 (1)

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