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Advertising a Basie performance

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A sign at an unidentified venue advertising a performance of the Count Basie Orchestra with Pearl Bailey.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Apollo Theater marquee

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Apollo Theatre marquee advertising a performance featuring Sy Oliver's band in Harlem, New York.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Apollo Theater marquee

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Apollo Theatre marquee advertising a performance featuring the Mills Brothers and the Andy Kirk Band in Harlem, New York.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Apollo Theater marquee

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Apollo Theatre marquee advertising a performance featuring Arnett Cobb's' band and Sid Catlet's band in Harlem, New York.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Apollo Theater marquee

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Apollo Theatre marquee advertising a performance featuring Billy Eckstine, Jimmie Lunceford's Band and Eddie Wilcox in Harlem, New York.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Barney Moss and Buck Clayton in front of Connolly's Star Dust Room

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Barney Moss wearing a camera and holding a flash with Buck Clayton holding his trumpet standing outside of Connolly's Star Dust Room with Buck Clayton...

Date Published
June-1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton in front of Connolly's Star Dust Room

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Buck Clayton standing in front of his marquee in front of Connolly's Star Dust Room; Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts.

Date Published
June-1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton with three others in front of the Connolly's Star Dust Room's marquee

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Buck Clayton with three band members, one unidentified African American man, the others are possibly Buddy Tate and Sir Charles Thompson, standing in...

Date Published
June-1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Connolly's Star Dust Room

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Connolly's Star Dust Room with Buck Clayton on the marquee; Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts.

Date Published
June-1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Crowd lined up to see "Claudia"; outside the Uptown Theater

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Crowd lined up to see the film "Claudia"; outside the Uptown Theater at 37th and Broadway, Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
August-20-1943
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Crowd lined up to see "One Night of Love" at Tower Theatre

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Crowd lined up to see the film "One Night of Love" outside the Tower Theatre at 213 E 12th, Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
September-15-1934
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Crowd lined up to see "She Couldn't Take It"; outside the Tower Theatre

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Crowd lined up to see the film "She Couldn't Take It"; outside the Tower Theatre, 213 E 12th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
1935
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Crowd lined up to see "The Egg and I" outside the Uptown Theater

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Crowd lined up to see the film "The Egg and I" outside the Uptown Theater at 37th and Broadway, Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
March-1947
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Crowd lined up to see "The Robe" outside the Orpheum Theater

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Crowd lined up to see the film "The Robe" outside the Orpheum Theater, 1214 Baltimore Avenue; Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
September-20-1953
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Crowd outside a theater

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Nighttime shot of an unidentified theater marquee, likely in New York, advertising a performance of Carmen Cavallaro and his Orchestra along with Bing...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Entrance to a concert venue

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Entrance to a pavilion advertising in French, German and English a performance of Humphrey Lyttelton and Buck Clayton; Clayton's name is spelled...

Date Published
1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Esquire Theatre redecorated as an Old West building

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Esquire Theatre redecorated as an Old West building for the release of the film "I Shot Jesse James"; 211 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
February-1949
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Fabulous Flirtations

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Publicity photograph of the Flirtations (left to right: Cliff Townsend, Jon Arterton, Jimmy Rutland, Michael Callen, Aurelio Font) hamming it up in...

Date Published
1989
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Flirtations by the marquee

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Publicity photo of the Flirtations posing by a marquee announcing a performance (Cliff Townsend; Jon Arterton; Jimmy Rutland; Michael Callen; Aurelio...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection

Four Freedoms Democratic Club registering voters at Out in Westport

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Megan Cramer and an unidentified white man posing for a picture as they run the Four Freedoms Democratic Club booth to register voters at Out in...

Date Published
1999
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Fox Fairway Theater

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Fox Fairway Theater at 2820 W. 53rd St., Fairway, Kan.; writing on photo (top): Fairway then, opened about 1940, Wolferman's now. Writing on photo...

Date Published
1947
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Group of soldiers lined up to see "Immortal Sergeant" outside the Esquire Theatre

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Group of soldiers (all white men) lined up to see the film "Immortal Sergeant" outside the Esquire Theatre, 211 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
January-1943
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Jeannie Cheatham on the street outside Radio City Music Hall

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Jeannie Cheatham standing on the street outside of the marquee for Radio City Music Hall in New York; various pedestrians can be seen behind her as...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Joseph Redmond, and three others, for world premiere of "I Shot Jesse James" outside the Esquire Theatre

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Joseph Redmond standing with three unidentified people in Western dress for the world premiere of the film "I Shot Jesse James" outside the Esquire...

Date Published
February-1949
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Marquee advertising "Arabian Nights" at Esquire Theater

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Marquee advertising the film "Arabian Nights" at the Esquire Theater, 211 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
1942
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

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