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Martha Molina and others during an open house event

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Martha Molina, Dr. Bruce Weaver, Hazelee Fowler, and Erma Riding speaking together during an open house event at Old Children's Mercy on Independence...

Date Published
November-16-1996
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Marva Whitney

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Publicity photo of Marva Whitney wearing white dress.

Member of
Allan Bell Collection

Marva Whitney

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Publicity photo of Marva Whitney wearing white dress.

Member of
Allan Bell Collection

Marva Whitney points

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Marva Whitney's look has a warning in her eyes as she points her right index finger toward the photographer and leans her head on her left hand at...

Date Published
September-19-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Marvine McKeithen at Club Paradox

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Marvine McKeithen speaks into a microphone with a band behind her at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. The crowd is seated at the bar or at tables...

Date Published
February-23-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Marvine McKeithen at the Club Paradox

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Marvine McKeithen stands behind the bar and looks doubtful at an unidentified African American woman seated at the bar telling a story at Club Paradox...

Date Published
February-23-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Marvine McKeithen at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000

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Marvine McKeithen smiles from under an umbrella she's holding in her left hand as she sits beside an unidentified child behind a table laden with t...

Date Published
June-24-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Marvine McKeithen, Otis Clay, Roger Naber, Dawayne Gilley at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002

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Marvine McKeithen, Otis Clay, Roger Naber, Dawayne Gilley stand on the street for a photograph during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-29-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Mary Lou Williams

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Headshot of Mary Lou Williams leaning forward and resting her head on her folded arms while looking forward. Williams is wearing a dark colored dress...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Mary Moore at the Gem Theater

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Mary Moore looks up with her eyes closed as she sings into a microphone held high, fingers splayed during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater...

Date Published
January-22-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Mary Moore at the Grand Emporium

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Mary Moore, wearing a hat, has a big grin as she bends over a microphone she holds in her right hand at the Grand Emporium.

Date Published
January-14-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Mary Moore dancing at the Grand Emporium

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Mary Moore dancing with an unidentified white man on the dance floor at the Grand Emporium. Other patrons can be seen behind them.

Date Published
April-05-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Maureen Smith playing the piano

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Maureen Smith stands with her left side to the photographer and turns her head toward her left shoulder to smile at the photographer as she stands...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Maurice Watson with choir members

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Maurice Watson singing on stage with three members of the Operation Breakthrough Choir (African American women), during a Golf Classic and Volunteer...

Date Published
February-03-2004
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Maurice Watson with choir members

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Maurice Watson singing on stage with three members of the Operation Breakthrough Choir (African American women), during a Golf Classic and Volunteer...

Date Published
February-03-2004
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Maurice Watson with choir members

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Maurice Watson singing on stage with three members of the Operation Breakthrough Choir (African American women), during a Golf Classic and Volunteer...

Date Published
February-03-2004
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Maurice Watson with choir members

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Maurice Watson on stage next to three members of the Operation Breakthrough Choir (African American women), one of whom is singing into a microphone...

Date Published
February-03-2004
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Maurice Watson with choir members

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Maurice Watson on stage next to three members of the Operation Breakthrough Choir (African American women), one of whom is singing into a microphone...

Date Published
February-03-2004
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Maurice Watson with choir members

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Maurice Watson singing on stage with three members of the Operation Breakthrough Choir (African American women), during a Golf Classic and Volunteer...

Date Published
February-03-2004
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Maurice Watson with choir members

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Maurice Watson holding an open book on stage next to three members of the Operation Breakthrough Choir (African American women), one of whom is...

Date Published
February-03-2004
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Melanie DeMore with guitar

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Publicity photo of Melanie DeMore holding a guitar, laughing and looking at the camera.

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection

Melba Liston portrait

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Portrait of Melba Liston holding her trombone and wearing a flowing silk robe; facing forward and looking at the camera.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Melvia "Chick" Rodgers

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Blues singer Melvia 'Chick' Rodgers holds a microphone to her mouth and looks out. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Melvia "Chick" Rodgers...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Members of the Young Americans Choir performing

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Members of the Young Americans Choir performing in a stairwell of Children's Mercy Hospital. Young men (white with one African American) and women...

Date Published
1966
1968
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Men and women at a bar

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Unidentified men and women at the Stein & Sirloin bar. A white woman is standing next to a seated white man with a drink in front of him at the left...

Date Published
1961
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

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