Election campaign poster for Alan Wheat, Freedom Inc. candidate on the Democrat ballot for 26th District State Representative, Missouri; includes a black and white photograph of the candidate in front of capitol building.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-006.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Advertising poster for baseball game between the KC Monarchs and Memphis Red Sox in support of T-B and cancer research; $1.00 admission listed for game on Sunday, July 12; advertising twilight doubleheader.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-007_a.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Advertising poster for John Deere Day inviting farmers and families for free attendance to baseball game.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-007_b.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster welcoming KC Monarchs baseball fans.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-008_a.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Hand drawn poster advertising New Year's Eve Breakfast Dance, Friday, December 31 from 11PM to 5AM, at the Beau Brummel Club, 1729 Lydia, Kansas City, featuring Jumping Joe Thomas and His All Star Band; $1.00 suggested donation.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-008_b.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising Easter Cabaret Matinee performance presented by Progress Patrol, April 13, 1952, from 4PM to 8PM at Armory on 18th & Highland, Kansas City, featuring Gene Carter and Orchestra along with Pee Wee Matthews, the "Boss of the Blues"; $1.00 suggested donation.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-009.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising Shrine Picnic sponsored by Koran Temple No. 33 and Koran Court No. 37 on Saturday, July 2, 1955, 9:00PM at Adam's Farm; directions to picnic included; $1.00 tickets for sale.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-010.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising Twilight Memorial Day Dance sponsored by R.T. Coles Veterans Training School, Wednesday, May 30, 1951, at Prospect Hall, 22nd & Prospect, Kansas City; music presented by G.I. Pranksters; admission listed as $1.00 in advance, $1.50 at the door.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-011.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising A Night in Barcelona at the Casa Loma Ballroom on Thursday, October 25, 1951, 9:00PM to 1:00AM; featured a popularity contest with prizes to Tuskegee-Wilberforce game in Chicago; contact info provided for Mrs. Sue Helmon "BE-9556, VI-2236 or BE-6694"; 75 cents admission.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-012.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising "S.S. Savoy To Hawaii" presented by Lincoln Junior College on November 17, 8:00 PM at Lincoln High Auditorium & Gym; admission 65 cents in advance, 75 cents at the door.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-013.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising third annual Xmas Frolic presented by R.T. Coles Veterans School on Monday, December 26, 1949, at New Prospect Hall, 22nd & Prospect; featuring music by R.T. Coles G.I. Pranksters; admission listed as 75 cents in advance and $1.00 at door.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-014.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising Powell's Chicken To Go at 2704 Troost, GR1-9658, and 2606 E. 31st St., WA4-9872, Kansas City.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-015.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising employment and rental services for M & R Employment Agency at 3835 Prospect; jobs listed include "Chauffeurs, Butlers, Waiters, Truck Drivers, Station Attendants, Housemen, Laborers, Store Clerks, Janitors, Bus Boys, Caterers, Mechanics / Office Work, Nurses, Housekeepers, Waitresses, Cooks, Laundress, Receptionist, Typist, Sitters, Cateresses, Maids, Hospital Attendants, Etc."; phone number listed as UN1-2016; Charley Moore, Jr., President and Wilbert E. Rutledge, Sr., Vice President.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-016.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising Flossie's Beauty Center at 603 1/2 E. 14th St.; phone number listed as HA-9165.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-017.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster for Fall Festival, October 18, 19, & 20, 6PM- 10:30PM, at Church of the Holy Spirit, 25th and Brooklyn; advertising prizes and refreshment booths in addition to $450 in bonds at event.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-018.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising Hy-Klas Food Store at 7th and Garfield, Kansas City, Kansas.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-019.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising Moore's Market at 7th and Garfield, Kansas City, Kan.; advertises "Home cooked meals, fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh meats: pork, beef, ham, sausage… and other varieties, and Plenty ice cold beer;" phone listed as DR1-9679.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-020.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising Homecoming football game for Lincoln University vs. Wilberforce University at Lincoln Field on Saturday, November 1, 2:00PM; $1.25 admission. White male football player illustrated.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-021.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising the Solar Queen Ball on Sunday, December 26, 1965, 9PM to 1AM, at the Crystal Ballroom, 29th and Brooklyn, Kansas City; featuring Ernest "Organ" Draffen Trio with Jim King, guitar, and Carl Webb, drums; admission $2.00 in advance and $2.50 at the door.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-022.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising the third annual Thanksgiving Day Matinee Dance sponsored by R.T. Coles Veterans Training School from 2PM to 6PM at Prospect Hall; music by G.I. Pranksters; admission 75 cents in advance and $1.00 at the door.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-023.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising Gala Cabaret Party and Floor Show presented by AMVETS at Armory on 18th and Highland on Sunday, June 29, 1947, 10PM to 2AM; music by Gene Carter and Orchestra; $1.00 suggested donation.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-024_a.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising services for Douglass State Bank; services include "Checking accounts, 1 1/2% interest paid on savings accounts, Safe deposit boxes, Low interest rates on automobile loans and financing, Courteous personal service."
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-024_b.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising Earle's Fall Fashion and Fur Show on Sunday, October 12, 1952, 8PM, at Music Hall in Municipal Auditorium; attractions include Marva Louis Spaulding, Miss Kansas City Popularity Contest, and $1,000 mink giveaway; $2.00 admission tickets available at Rose Room, Streets Hotel; Earle's, 2628 Indiana; Parkview Drug, 27th and Benton, Millie's Lounge, 26th and Indiana, Mardi Gras, 19th and Vine; photo of Marva Louis Spaulding on poster.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-025.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising concert at Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, on Sunday, October 11, 1942, featuring Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club Orchestral; admission 75 cents in advance and 90 cents at the door; tickets on sale at Crown Drug Stores, Monarch Taxi, Cundiff Drug Store, 5th and Quindaro; Drew's Pharmacy, and Home Drug Co., Kansas City, Kansas.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-026.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising concert at Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, on Monday, April 11, 1938, featuring Count Basie and His Orchestra along with Jimmy Rushing, presented by Music Corporation of America and sponsored by Musicians Relief Association; admission 75 cents in advance and $1.00 at the door.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-027.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising concert at Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, on Thursday, February 2, 1942, sponsored by Paseo Men's Service Club, featuring "The Spotlight sensation" Count Basie; admission 75 cents in advance.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-028.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising public talk presented by the Tuberculosis Society and Health Department of Kansas City as part of National Negro Health Week titled "Public Health Aspects of Tuberculosis" on Thursday, March 29, 1945, 8PM, at Lincoln High School; featuring presentation by Dr. Roderick Brown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Member, Board of Directors, National Tuberculosis Association; Senior Surgeon (Reserve), U.S. Public Health Service; free admission.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-029.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Concert poster advertising Jimmy Keith's Swingtet featuring Joe Coleman, "singing discovery of the year!"
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-030.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising new ballad single "When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano" sung by the Ink Spots; listed as Decca Record No. 3195.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-031.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising concert on Sunday, May 30, 1943, at Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City; concert featured the Ink Spots and Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra featuring Trevor Bacon, Peg Leg Bates, Red and Curley (not pictured); special added attraction of Sister Rosetta Tharpe; admission $1.00 in advance and $1.25 at the door; tickets on sale at Crown Drug Stores: 12th and Paseo, 18th and Vine, 22nd and Prospect; Monarch Taxi, KCMO; Drew's Pharmacy, Home Drug Co., KCK.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-032.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
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.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-033.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Poster advertising performances at Scott's Club, 18th Street and Highland, Kansas City, for one week starting March 6 through Sunday, March 10; advertised entertainment includes "Charles A. Taylor's latest edition of Bronze Manikins", "Songs-dancing-comedy", "Arnold and his Orchestra, Three Ropesters, 35 colored artists, Ten Bronze Bombshell Beauties;" illustration of dancing girls on poster.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-034.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Jazz singer Myra Taylor.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-001.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Jazz singer Myra Taylor dancing.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-002.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Jazz singer Myra Taylor at microphone.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-003.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Samuel "Baby" Lovett (drums) and unidentified musicians performing at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-004.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Samuel "Baby" Lovett (far left) and unidentified musicians at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-005.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Samuel "Baby" Lovett (seated, left) and unidentified musicians at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-006.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Bob Wilson (second from right) and unidentified musicians.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-007.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Unidentified African American and white jazz musicians (trumpeter, drummer and three trombonists) performing at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-008.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
The Vale-Dairs band with unidentified local musicians performing at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-009.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Teddy (guitar) and Lotty (bass) of the Vale-Dairs performing at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-010.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Publicity photo of Eddie South holding violin.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-011.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Publicity photo of Duke Garrette playing trumpet; caption reads: Duke Garrette Featured With Lionel Hampton's Orchestra.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-012.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Close-up headshot of Cab Calloway.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-013.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Headshot of Duke Ellington.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-014.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Promotional photo of unidentified female singer with nine member jazz band.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-015.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Promotional photo of Count Basie seated at the piano.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-016.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Dwight "Gatemouth" Moore performing at the Chaz Paree in Kansas City, Missouri.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-017.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Class of 1933 group photo at Lincoln High School in Kansas City, Missouri.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-018.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Unidentified man operating heavy machinery.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-019.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Three unidentified African American men posing in front of a wall menu for "Brooklyn Cone and Grill".
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-020.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Two unidentified African-American men posing on a sidewalk; an unidentified market, advertising poultry and fish, and "Pig-in-a-Pit Bar-B-Q" are in the background.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-021.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Three unidentified African American boys (ca. 10 years old?) posing near an unidentified street corner.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-022.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Two unidentified African-American male sprinters, one wearing a "Central Track" t-shirt, just before breaking through the finish line string; audience of white men and women look on.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-023.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Display case advertising a Philharmonic Connoisseur Concert featuring William Dawson (composer of the Negro Folk Symphony), January 29, 8:30pm, at Shawnee Mission East High School.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-024.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Unidentified group outside the Musicians Protective Union Local 627 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-025.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Teddy (guitar) and Lotty (bass) of the Vale-Dairs performing at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-026.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Unidentified African American male saxophone player in a hat blowing into his instrument.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-027.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Unidentified male piano player performing.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-028.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Unidentified woman wearing jacket with striped lining.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-029.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Unidentified woman wearing jacket with striped lining.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-030.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Unidentified woman wearing sunglasses.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-031.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Publicity photo of Bettye Miller seated at piano.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-032.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Publicity photo of unidentified man.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-033.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Bobby Stafford (center) performing with two unidentified men.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-034.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Bobby Stafford (center) performing with two unidentified men.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-035.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Unidentified group of African American men and women seated around a table at the Casino Drive Inn on Truman Road in Independence, Missouri. One of the men is likely Lowell Fulson. There are bottles of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and glasses on the table. All looking toward the camera.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-036.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Unidentified group of African American men and women seated around a table at an unidentified nightclub.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_photo-037.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Election campaign poster for Freedom Inc. candidates on the Democrat ballot representing the 2nd Ward, Kansas City: Bruce R. Watkins and Catherine Mitchell. Includes a black and white photograph of each of the candidates.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-001.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Election campaign poster for William Carson, Freedom Inc. candidate on the Democrat ballot for 14th District State Representative, Missouri; includes a black and white photograph of the candidate.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-002.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Election campaign poster for Bruce R. Watkins, Freedom Inc. candidate on the Democrat ballot for circuit clerk, Kansas City; includes a black and white photograph of the candidate.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-003.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Election campaign poster for Warren James, Freedom Inc. candidate on the Democrat ballot for 10th District State Representative, Kansas City; includes a black and white photograph of the candidate.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-004.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
Election campaign poster for Freedom Inc. candidates on the Democrat ballot representing the 18th Ward, Kansas City: Jessie Mills and Sterling H. Bryant; includes a black and white photograph of each candidate.
Type: posters
File: umkc_lsc_thurn_poster-005.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0050
