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"Grandpa" + Janices baby

Image

L. Perry Cookingham in striped shirt sitting on blue couch in front of floral drapes with unidentified baby.

Date Published
1949
1959
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

"Korn's-a-Krackin'" promotional photo

Image

"Korn's-a-Krackin" cast portrait. Back row, left to right: Jerry Asborn, Virgil Phillips, Ozark Red, George Rhodes, Slim Wilson, Buster Fellows, Faust...

Date Published
1941
1954
Member of
Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection

Aerial photo of houses and roads

Image

An aerial photo of houses and roads along the coast of Liberia.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Aerial photo of houses and roads

Image

An aerial photo of houses and roads along the coast of Liberia.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Aerial photo of houses and roads

Image

An aerial photo of houses and roads along the coast of Liberia.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

African Patriot docks on a pier during a port dedication ceremony

Image

A large ship named African Patriot docks on a pier during a port dedication ceremony in Monrovia. The pier is lined with a large crowd of people.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

African Patriot docks on a pier during a port dedication ceremony

Image

A large ship named African Patriot docks on a pier during a port dedication ceremony in Monrovia. The pier is lined with a large crowd of people.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Airplane on a dirt airfield

Image

An airplane on a dirt airfield, likely James Spriggs Payne Airfield in Monrovia. A car is parked in the background and two unidentified people are...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Airplane on a dirt airfield

Image

An airplane on a dirt airfield, likely James Spriggs Payne Airfield in Monrovia. A car is parked in the background and two unidentified people are...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Albert Witchen with two women

Image

Albert Witchen, Vice Consul for American Legation, sitting with two women at an outdoor dining table, possibly at a restaurant or party in Monrovia...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Alice & "Hubie" Edwards in Western wear stand in front of painted mural

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Alice & "Hubie" Edwards in Western wear stand in front of painted mural.

Date Published
1950
1970
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

American Legation

Image

American Legation Office and Minister Quarters in Monrovia. The three story house has large windows on all sides and floors of the building.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Backyard brick patio of 809 W. 69th St.

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Back shade covered brick patio of 809 W. 69th St., Kansas City, MO showing patio furniture including tables, chairs, and lounge.

Date Published
1950
1959
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Buildings on a pier

Image

Buildings on a pier, viewed behind ship rigging and a metal pole.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Buildings on a pier

Image

Buildings on a pier, viewed behind ship rigging and a metal pole.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Buildings on the edge of water

Image

Buildings on the edge of a body of water, likely in Monrovia. The buildings have a fairly modern architecture style.

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Bush Devil dancer on an open road

Image

A Bush Devil dancer, symbolic of the materialization of a spirit form as well as the chief's authority for the Vai tribe, on an open road somewhere in...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Bush Devil dancer on an open road

Image

A Bush Devil dancer, symbolic of the materialization of a spirit form as well as the chief's authority for the Vai tribe, on an open road somewhere in...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Bush Devil dancer on an open road

Image

A Bush Devil dancer, symbolic of the materialization of a spirit form as well as the chief's authority for the Vai people, on an open road somewhere...

Date Published
1947
1952
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

Charcoal drawing of house at 809 W. 69th St.

Image

Charcoal drawing of house at 809 W. 69th St., Kansas City, MO.

Date Published
1950
1959
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Chris Condone and Bill Leeds broadcast at WDAF

Image

Chris Condone (left) and Bill Leeds (right) seated at a podium behind a microphone. Leeds appears to be speaking. Both men are pictured from waist to...

Date Published
1950
1960
Member of
Walt Bodine 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

Clouds rolling over open waters

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Clouds rolling in over open waters in Liberia. The edge of a lake or bay is far in the distance.

Date Published
1947
1952
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

Coastline of a harbor

Image

Coastline of a harbor in Freetown, Sierra Leone (indicated on back of photo). The coastline is hazy with fog and a large metal chain railing is in the...

Date Published
December-01-1947
Member of
Leon M. Jordan Collection

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Member of

  • Leon M. Jordan Collection (304)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (111)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (8)
  • Vic Damon Collection (8)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (7)
  • Walt Bodine Collection (5)
  • Paul Creston Collection (3)
  • Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection (2)
  • Ed Dix Collection (2)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (1)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (1)
  • Ted Malone Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (452)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (404)
  • Gelatin silver prints (404)
  • Portrait photographs (334)
  • Snapshots (325)
  • Group portraits (277)
  • Color photographs (48)
  • Film transparencies (31)
  • Stereographs (31)
  • Publicity photographs (14)
  • Portraits (3)
  • Charcoal drawings (1)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)
  • Drawings (1)
  • Renderings (1)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (4)
  • 1931-1940 (2)
  • (-) 1941-1950 (453)
  • (-) 1951-1960 (453)

Subjects

  • Boats and boating (39)
  • Rural conditions (39)
  • Parties (35)
  • Airplanes (27)
  • Buildings (27)
  • City managers (25)
  • Soldiers (21)
  • Dwellings (20)
  • Parades (17)
  • Beaches (16)
  • Huts (14)
  • Street life (12)
  • Liberians (11)
  • Men, White (11)
  • Beverages (9)
  • Furniture (9)
  • Rites and ceremonies (9)
  • Clubs (8)
  • Men (8)
  • Politicians (8)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (8)
  • African American women (7)
  • Crowds (7)
  • Dinners and dining (7)
  • Police (7)
  • Streets (7)
  • Sound engineers (6)
  • Special events (6)
  • Statues (6)
  • Thatched buildings (6)
  • African American police (5)
  • Tour guides (Persons) (5)
  • Automobiles (4)
  • Piers (4)
  • Women, White (4)
  • Aerial views (3)
  • African American men (3)
  • College students (3)
  • Composers (3)
  • Fire engines (3)
  • Fireplaces (3)
  • Horsemanship (3)
  • Horses (3)
  • Living rooms (3)
  • Military uniforms (3)
  • Monuments (3)
  • Patios (3)
  • Porches (3)
  • Sailors (3)
  • Snow (3)
  • Teachers (3)
  • Western riding (3)
  • Women (3)
  • African American children (2)
  • Bedrooms (2)
  • Bodies of water (2)
  • Cage birds (2)
  • Christmas decorations (2)
  • Country musicians (2)
  • Cows (2)
  • Customs administration (2)
  • Dancers (2)
  • Dining rooms (2)
  • Folk dancers (2)
  • House plants (2)
  • Infants (2)
  • Jazz musicians (2)
  • Jazz musicians, White (2)
  • Kitchens (2)
  • Literature--Societies, etc. (2)
  • Locomotives (2)
  • Mayors (2)
  • Musical groups (2)
  • Musicians (2)
  • Radio programs, Musical (2)
  • Restaurants (2)
  • Stores, Retail (2)
  • Thatched roofs (2)
  • Villages (2)
  • Actresses (1)
  • African American mothers (1)
  • Airplaines (1)
  • Airports (1)
  • Antiaircraft guns (1)
  • Armed Forces--Officers (1)
  • Art (1)
  • Balloon decorations (1)
  • Ballroom dancing (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
  • Baskets (1)
  • Blue collar workers (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Bridges (1)
  • Broadcasting (1)
  • Broadcasting--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Canoes and canoeing--Design and construction (1)
  • Carnival (1)
  • Cats (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Church buildings (1)
  • Congresses and conventions (1)
  • Country music (1)
  • Dishwashing machines (1)
  • Dogs (1)
  • Entrance halls (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Flags (1)
  • Gardening (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Husband and wife (1)
  • Management (1)
  • Manual work (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Mothers and sons (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Muslims (1)
  • Parrots (1)
  • Party decorations (1)
  • Pestles (1)
  • Pets (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Picnics (1)
  • Plants, Flowering of--Flowering time (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Radio personalities (1)
  • Radio talk show hosts (1)
  • Rain forest people (1)
  • Reed organ (1)
  • Rivers (1)
  • Roads (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Schools (1)
  • Seminarians (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Smoking (1)
  • Spring (1)
  • Theater (1)
  • Trucks (1)
  • Vai (African people) (1)
  • Voter registration (1)
  • Warehouses (1)
  • Wooden doors (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Liberia (150)
  • Monrovia (Liberia) (116)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (6)
  • Washington (D.C.) (6)
  • Robertsport (Liberia) (5)
  • Dakar (Senegal) (3)
  • Freetown (Sierra Leone) (3)
  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (3)
  • Leawood (Kan.) (2)
  • Gbarnga (Liberia) (1)
  • Mobile (Ala.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Jordan, Leon M. (Leon Mercer), 1905-1970 (47)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (42)
  • Jordan, Orchid, 1910-1995 (42)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (19)
  • Bolling, Richard, 1916-1991 (7)
  • Tubman, William V. S., 1895-1971 (6)
  • Kemp, William E. (William Ewing), 1889-1968 (5)
  • Damon, Victor L., 1901-1974 (4)
  • Koerper, Karl, 1901-1957 (4)
  • Bodine, Walt, 1920- (3)
  • Creston, Paul, 1906-1985 (3)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (2)
  • Dudley, Edward R., 1911-2005 (2)
  • Gage, John B. (John Bailey), 1887- (2)
  • Bartle, Harold Roe, 1901-1974 (1)
  • Bodine, Bernadine (Bernadine Mary), 1918-2003 (1)
  • Bodine, Mary (Mary Ethyl), 1893-1952 (1)
  • Boggs, Hale, 1914-1972 (1)
  • Bolling, Barbara, 1909-1996 (1)
  • Bowersock, Justin D. (Justin DeWitt), 1871-1955 (1)
  • Brady, Leo F. (1)
  • Clooney, Rosemary (1)
  • Condone, Chris (Television news anchor) (1)
  • Dodds, Betty (1)
  • Dwyer, Hugh L. (1)
  • Edwards, Alice (1)
  • Edwards, Hubie (1)
  • French, Robert (1)
  • Grady, Edward (1)
  • Greenlease, Virginia P., 1909-2001 (1)
  • Hall, Joyce C., 1891-1982 (1)
  • Hartenbower, Dorothy (1)
  • Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 (1)
  • Jones, Morton T., 1892- (1)
  • Kay, Merle (1)
  • Koppang, Ruth (1)
  • Kresge, Stanley Sebastian, 1900- (1)
  • Leeds, Bill (1)
  • Malone, Ted, 1908-1989 (1)
  • Merriam, Charles Edward, 1874-1953 (1)
  • Minchin, Humphrey Cotton (1)
  • O'Leary, Dorman (1)
  • Oldham, Eva (1)
  • Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 (1)
  • Udall, Stewart L. (1)
  • Wills, Johnnie Lee (1)
  • Wilson, Herbert H. (1)
  • Wilson, Rozine (1)

Date Published

  • 1952 (299)
  • 1947 (298)
  • 1959 (81)
  • 1941 (64)
  • 1950 (34)
  • 1949 (30)
  • 1960 (30)
  • 1956 (11)
  • 1948 (10)
  • 1954 (8)
  • 1951 (6)
  • 1947-12-01 (5)
  • 1957 (4)
  • 1944 (3)
  • 1945 (3)
  • 1940 (2)
  • 1955 (2)
  • 1970 (2)
  • 1947-12 (1)
  • 1953 (1)
  • 1958 (1)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1964 (1)
  • 1968 (1)

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