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Title: Jack Schenk presents Darktown Scandals
Description: Poster advertising performances at Boone Theatre, Kansas City, for eight days commencing Saturday, September 27, 1941; featured events include a "Midnite Ramble Saturday-Sunday-Thursday" and "Jack Schenck presents Darktown Scandals"; poster advertises featured singer Ida Cox, "Plus red-hot stage band", and 'Cast of 35 / 12 singing, dancing, hi-brown babies;" illustration of dancing girl on poster.
Date Published: 1941
Collection: Brian Thurn Collection

Title: Anson Funderburgh and Lee McBee at the Grand Emporium
Description: Anson Funderburgh and Lee McBee, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, perform together. Anson looks to his left towards Lee whose eyes are closed as he blows into an amplified harmonica he clutches in both hands.
Date Published: July 6, 2002
Collection: Evie Quarles Collection

Title: Joe Cartwright
Description: Joe Cartwright turns his head to his left to look at the photographer at Crown Center. The corner of the piano is visible in the foreground.
Date Published: February 21, 1998
Collection: Evie Quarles Collection

Title: Richard Bolling in his office
Description: Richard Bolling speaking on a telephone while looking down and sitting at his disk in his office in Kansas City, Missouri.
Date Published: October 24, 1973
Collection: Richard W. Bolling Collection

Title: Looking north from the Jones Store toward the Paramount and Roxy Theatres
Description: Looking north from the Jones Store toward the Paramount and Roxy Theatres on 12th and Main, Kansas City, Mo.
Date Published: Summer 1949
Collection: Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Title: Dave Dexter interviewing Sonja Henie
Description: Dave Dexter and an unidentified reporter interviewing Sonja Henie. Dexter and Henie are sitting on a wicker sofa. Dexter is looking at Henie who is looking up and to the side.
Date Published: 1937
Collection: Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Title: John Bridges at a Wayne Miner Housing Project meeting
Description: John Bridges speaking at a Wayne Miner Housing Project meeting in Kansas City, Missouri. Sitting behind Bridges are Doris Durall (HUD), Ed King, Rev. Ben Ridpath, Dr. Clinton Wofferd, Vernetta Reams. Richard Bolling, and C.N. Rucker.
Date Published: October 24, 1973
Collection: Richard W. Bolling Collection

Title: Hipnotics singer at the Grand Emporium
Description: A member of the blues band, Hipnotics, sings into a microphone at the Grand Emporium.
Date Published: November 20, 2002
Collection: Evie Quarles Collection

Title: Richard Bolling with constituents in mobile office
Description: Richard Bolling speaking with constituents inside his mobile office in Kansas City, Missouri. Bolling is sitting and looking down while holding one hand on his head.
Date Published: March 1978
Collection: Richard W. Bolling Collection

Title: Man with mustache and beard
Description: Visiting card of a man with mustache and beard wearing a coat, pink back with printed name of photo studio.
Date Published: No date; likely between 1861 and 1870
Collection: Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection

Title: Sister Laurence and her guests Robert F. Kennedy, congressman and Mrs. Richard Bolling, at Little Sisters of the Poor
Description: Jim Bolling, Sister Laurence, Robert Kennedy and Richard Bolling at Little Sisters of the Poor during Kennedy's campaign visit to Kansas City, Missouri. Bolling is standing on the left and speaking to an audience.
Date Published: June 15, 1964
Collection: Richard W. Bolling Collection

Title: Kent Means performing at the Grand Emporium
Description: Kent Means looks down as he plays the vibraphone at the Grand Emporium for Speedy Huggins Benefit.
Date Published: February 27, 1999
Collection: Evie Quarles Collection

Title: Susan Perry and "uncle" Perry at arrival of "butch" the snow leopard she purchased for the K.C. Zoo
Description: L. Perry Cookingham standing at microphone with Susan Perry on platform in front of Snow Leopard exhibit in Kansas City Zoo.
Date Published: February 11, 1984
Collection: L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Title: Unidentified group outside the Musicians Protective Union Local 627
Description: Unidentified group outside the Musicians Protective Union Local 627 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Date Published: No date; likely between 1941 and 1950
Collection: Brian Thurn Collection

Title: D.C. Bellamy at Kansas City Blues Society 3rd Annual Acoustic Showcase
Description: D.C. Bellamy, wearing a ball cap, sings into a microphone as he strums a guitar at B. B.'s Lawnside Bar-B-Q during the Kansas City Blues Society 3rd Annual Acoustic Showcase.
Date Published: August 26, 2000
Collection: Evie Quarles Collection

Title: Dixie Hudgins and Myrnith Warren
Description: Dixie Hudgins and Myrnith Warren in Richard Bolling's Kansas City office in Kansas City, Missouri. Hudgins is standing and turning around. Warren is sitting and looking through index cards.
Date Published: 1971
Collection: Richard W. Bolling Collection

Title: Dead livestock in the aftermath of the 1951 floods
Description: Dead livestock in the aftermath of the 1951 floods.
Date Published: 1951
Collection: L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Title: Kansas City spirit march
Date Published: 1901
Collection: Kansas City Sheet Music Collection, Sheet Music Collection

Title: Monte Montgomery at the Grand Emporium
Description: Monte Montgomery, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks down at the neck of an acoustic guitar he is playing.
Date Published: March 25, 2000
Collection: Evie Quarles Collection

Title: Cotton Candy Washington during the Living Blues weekend
Description: Cotton Candy Washington slants her eyes to the right with a smile on her face as she hold an unlit cigarette with long, long finger nails, long long earrings, and wearing a very fashionable hat at the Living Blues Weekend Photo Shoot at the Mutual Musicians Foundation Building.
Date Published: September 18, 1999
Collection: Evie Quarles Collection

Title: Man with mustache
Description: Visiting card of a man with mustache with a printed advertisement for the photographer on back.
Date Published: No date; likely between 1861 and 1870
Collection: Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection

Title: Leon and Orchid Jordan with items collected in Africa
Description: Leon and Orchid Jordan standing in the basement of their house in Kansas City with items collected in Africa. They are holding a hammock and Orchid is wearing a handmade hat. The items on display include rugs and containers and other handmade artifacts.
Date Published: 1950
Collection: Leon M. Jordan Collection

Title: Little Hatch plays the harmonica at the Gem Theater
Description: Provine "Little" Hatch, wearing a brocade tuxedo, blows into a harmonica attached to a microphone during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater. He's looking to the photographer's right.
Date Published: January 22, 2000
Collection: Evie Quarles Collection

Title: Young man with mustache
Description: Card photograph of a young man with mustache with the name and address of the photographer printed along the bottom and on the back.
Date Published: No date; likely between 1873 and 1880
Collection: Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection

Title: Orchid Jordan with car
Description: Orchid Jordan standing outside near her car parked in the driveway. She is wearing a patterned jacket and skirt with red boots and is holding a purse. She is looking forward, smiling, and opening the door to her car.
Date Published: No date; likely between 1975 and 1980
Collection: Leon M. Jordan Collection

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