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Sarah Vaughan singing

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Sarah Vaughan singing into a microphone with unidentified African American male bassist behind her.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Sarah Wright standing with x-rays

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Children's Mercy Hospital Employee of the Month, Sarah Wright with the radiology unit, standing in front of a light board with three x-rays on it.

Date Published
July-01-1984
July-31-1984
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Sarah Wright with toddler

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Sarah Wright, nurse, holding a young, crying, African American girl toddler up.

Date Published
May-16-1973
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Saxophonist and two fans

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Unidentified African American saxophonist in a red beret and carrying his saxophone standing and speaking to two unidentified African American Women...

Date Published
June-1989
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Saxophonist with Jimmy Cheatham

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Unidentified African American male saxophonist playing on stage with Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham; Jimmy is wearing a red sweater and beret and only the...

Date Published
1981
1984
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Scene from "Negroid Evolution"

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Scene from the play "Negroid Evolution" produced and directed by Bettye Miller. Two women and a man are standing in a group speaking to each other; an...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Scene from "Negroid Evolution"

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Scene from the play "Negroid Evolution" produced and directed by Bettye Miller. A group of men and women are on stage dressed as enslaved persons in...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Scene from "Negroid Evolution"

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Scene from the play "Negroid Evolution" produced and directed by Bettye Miller. A group of men and women standing on stage and looking out to the...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Scene from "Negroid Evolution"

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Scene from the play "Negroid Evolution" produced and directed by Bettye Miller. A group of men and women standing on stage and looking out to the...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Scene from "Negroid Evolution"

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Scene from the play "Negroid Evolution" produced and directed by Bettye Miller. A group of men and women dressed as enslaved persons standing in front...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Scene from "Negroid Evolution"

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Scene from the play "Negroid Evolution" produced and directed by Bettye Miller. A group of men and women, dressed in 19th century costumes, are lying...

Date Published
1949
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Seated around a picnic table

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Six people (Two African American woman, one African American man, two white women, one white man) seated around a picnic table, talking together...

Date Published
April-01-1987
April-30-1987
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Seated woman with a bow in her hair

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A studio portrait of an unidentified African American woman seated with a bow in the back of her hair. She wears eyeglasses, a high-collared lace...

Date Published
1891
1900
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Selected award tea participants

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Doris Clark Graddy, Margaret Weaver, John Stockwell, Mintie Carnahan, and Ethel Vaughn all posing together for a photo from behind a table during the...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Series of three photographs of Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Blanche Williams blowing up modeling balloons

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In a series of three photographs, Claude "Fiddler" Williams blows up a modeling balloon as he is in a big crowd. Blanche Williams blows up a modeling...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Service award pin recipients

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Employees receiving Children's Mercy Hospital Service award pins. Left to right are Geraldine Mathis, Sarah Wright, Edna Russel, Dr. Ruth Yohe, and...

Date Published
February-19-1964
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Service award pin recipients

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Employees receiving Children's Mercy Hospital Service award pins. Left to right are Ray Wilson, Ella Woods, Grace Barr, and Betty Sherman. The African...

Date Published
February-19-1964
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Service award pin recipients

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Employees receiving Children's Mercy Hospital Service award pins. Left to right are Fred Atkisson, Essie Grant, Leota Willet, Geraldine Mathis, and...

Date Published
February-19-1964
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Service award recipients at Nurse Hall

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Alice Walker, seated and pouring tea at a table with her back to the camera during a service award ceremony in Nurse Hall. Award recipients (African...

Date Published
January-01-1962
December-31-1962
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Several Mexican American women and African American women share a holiday meal

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Several Mexican American women and two African American women sit at a long table sharing a meal during an unidentified MANA de Kansas City holiday...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
MANA de Kansas City Collection

Shemekia Copeland

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Blues vocalist Shemekia Copeland closes her eyes and opens her mouth wide as she sings into a microphone lifted even with her face. Printed in the...

Date Published
1998
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Shemekia Copeland and Ronnie Baker Brooks at the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise

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Shemekia Copeland and Ronnie Baker Brooks, one of the national acts at the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise. Ronnie Baker Brooks, wearing a baseball...

Date Published
2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Shemekia Copeland at the Grand Emporium

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Shemekia Copeland, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, pouts her lips with smiling eyes as she looks over her left shoulder and...

Date Published
February-27-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Shirley Jean Wilcher

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Shirley Jean Wilcher, Jeannie Cheatham's daughter.

Date Published
January-1994
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Shirley Johnson

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Blues vocalist Shirley Johnson sits sideways to a piano and smiles as she leans her head on her left hand. Her elbow rests on the music stand of the...

Date Published
1992
2002
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

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