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Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, and Tommy Dorsey

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Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, and Tommy Dorsey speaking during a break on the set of Ship Ahoy (released 1942). Rooney is wearing a striped shirt and...

Date Published
December-18-1941
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Mike Murphy and Marilyn Maye smile for the photographer at Club 427

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Radio broadcaster, Mike Murphy, has his arms around Marilyn Maye and likely, Patty, at Club 427 in Kansas City, MO. The bar is visible behind them.

Date Published
January-07-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Mildred Bailey and Joe Venuti

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Mildred Bailey and Joe Venuti seated at a dining table with water glasses and an ashtray.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Mildred Bailey singing

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Mildred Bailey wearing a dress and holding papers and a handkerchief. Bailey is standing next to a CBS microphone.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Mille Edwards at American Heartland Theater

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Millie Edwards sings into a microphone held in her right hand at American Heartland Theater.

Date Published
March-02-2003
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Milt Abel singing and playing bass at the Levee Bar & Grill

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Milt Abel singing and playing bass at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Other people are sitting in front of the stage...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Modernaires

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The Modernaires looking at music around the piano. One singer is at the piano, holding the music and smiling, while the others look over his shoulder...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Modernaires

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Publicity photo of the vocal jazz group, the Modernaires, joking around with a trumpet.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Monica Lewis

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Headshot of Monica Lewis leaning forward and smiling. Lewis is wearing a white shoulder-less dress and pendant necklace with her hair hanging down.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Monica Lewis

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Headshot of Monica Lewis turning slightly o the side and looking forward with a sultry facial expression. Lewis is wearing a white shoulder-less dress...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Mose Allison

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Publicity photo of Mose Allison wearing dark shirt and tie.

Date Published
1961
1976
Member of
Allan Bell Collection

Musicians at Chuck Haddix' book signing

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Myra Taylor sits in a wheelchair smiling to her right at the photographer. Seated behind her is Jurgen Welge. Standing behind Jurgen with his hands on...

Date Published
June-08-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor and Bobby Watson at the Grand Emporium

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Myra Taylor sits in a wheelchair to the right of Bobby Watson. She holds her purse. Bobby has his left arm around her shoulders, is wearing a straw...

Date Published
May-23-2003
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor and Buck O'Neil at the Blue Room

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Myra Taylor is seated and laughing with her eyes closed while holding a microphone with her right hand and holding her left hand around the shoulder...

Date Published
June-21-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor and Harry Hypolite at the Blue Room

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Harry Hypolite leans forward grinning over a seated Myra Taylor at the Blue Room in front of the bar, 18th & Vine.

Date Published
February-28-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor at the dedication of a park gate in her name

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Myra Taylor; Jackson and Dawayne Gilley sit inside a stretch limousine with the back door opened at the Myra Taylor Park Gate Dedication, 18th &...

Date Published
June-29-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor during the Living Blues Photo Shoot

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Myra Taylor, holds on to the brim of her hat with both hands with a big grin on her face during the Living Blues Weekend Photo Shoot. A cane handle is...

Date Published
September-18-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor laughing at the dedication of a park gate in her name

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Myra Taylor, looks down at the table where she's sitting, covers her eyes and laughs as Dawayne Gilley and Connie Humiston stand behind her and hold...

Date Published
June-29-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor performs at Knuckleheads

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Myra Taylor sits and performs with a bass player and an unidentified couple behind her at Knuckleheads Lounge on the occasion of her 89th birthday.

Date Published
February-24-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor recording

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Myra Taylor sitting in a wheelchair with headphones on and singing into a microphone at the Myra Taylor Recording Session at the Airborne Audio...

Date Published
July-31-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor sings with the Curtyse Foster Band

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Myra Taylor sings with the Curtyse Foster Band at an unidentified venue in Kansas City. Farthest to the left Bunnie "Bumps" Love smiles to her right...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Myra Taylor smiles at Unity Temple on the Plaza

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Myra Taylor smiles to her right while holding a microphone in her left hand and wearing a suit with sequin flowers at Unity Temple on the Plaza.

Date Published
February-06-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor turns 89

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Myra Taylor sits on a stage smiling and singing into a microphone facing to the right of the photographer towards a fan seated directly in front of...

Date Published
February-24-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor wins the best female blues artist from Living Blues Magazine

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Dawayne Gilley stands and seriously hands keys to Jim O'Neal behind the head of a seated and laughing Myra Taylor. Myra is holding two Living Blues...

Date Published
July-21-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor, Ben Kynard and Lionel Hampton at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Myra Taylor wearing a fur lined cap and eyeglasses hanging from a necklace around her neck smiles with her hand around the shoulder of a seated Lionel...

Date Published
January-13-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

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