Dolores Hobley Collection

Description
The Dolores Hobley Collection was formed by various purchases from her business at Waldo Antiques of Kansas City. The collection consists of photographs that primarily reflect aspects of the African-American cultural experience during the late 19th century and into the 20th century, including in and around Kansas City.
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LaBudde Special Collections
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On a rocky beach

Two unidentified white women sitting on a rocky beach with perhaps changing huts and palm trees behind them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-198.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Man and woman sitting by a staircase

An unidentified African American man and African American woman seated near a staircase. The man wears a straw bowler to the side, a Beaufort square collar, and a three-piece suit with a handkerchief in his pocket. He leans back in his chair with his legs crossed and holds a cigarette in his left hand. The woman, seated to his left, tilts her head as she smiles at the camera wearing a striped, full-length dress with lace around the collar and sleeve hems.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-199.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Two men stand on the steps

Two unidentified African American men looking directly at the photographer as they stand on the wooden steps to the side of a brick house. Their pant legs are rolled up.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-200.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Logan and Frank

Logan and Frank standing on sidewalk in a residential area with trees on lawns. Both are smiling and dressed in suits and hats. Frank holds three books low in his right hand. Logan has his left hand tucked under Frank's right arm.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-201.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Lillie and Mary

Lillie and Mary stand outdoors next to a wooden clapboard structure. Both wear lace-up boots and hats. Lillie holds an closed umbrella tip side down, as a cane, in her right hand.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-202.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Scott Pelter

Scott Pelter looks serious as he poses outdoors next to a brick building wearing a hat, a buttoned up suit, and buttoned shoes.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-203.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Man wearing a vest and hat

An unidentified African American man standing outdoors wearing a light-colored hat and a vest over a shirt with rolled-up sleeves. There are clapboard buildings behind him.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-204.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Woman holding a baby outside

An unidentified white woman wearing glasses and large hat holding a baby and standing in the side yard of a house.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-205.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Woman holding a clutch purse

An unidentified white woman stands outdoors wearing a hat with flowers on it, a dress that is hemmed just below her knees, and holding a clutch purse low with her left hand.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-206.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Truck in a parade

Decorated truck in an unidentified parade driving in front of buildings.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-207.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Majorettes marching in a parade

Marching majorettes in an unidentified parade between buildings on 27th Street with people looking on from the sidewalks. Cars are parked on both sides of the streets.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-208.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Stich Shelter House

The Stich Shelter House in Independence, Kansas with several street lamps and gardens placed around the structure.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Stucco home with a carport

An unidentified stucco home, possibly a duplex, with a car parked in the carport. The home has a large lawn.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-210.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Home of M.C. Walker, Lebanon, Mo. with note and address on the back of M.C. Walker home postcard

Front: Picture postcard with the correspondence handwritten on the back, "When this you see think of me that my pray, Eve" (possibly). The address, "Mrs. Zellar Crane, #714 Benton, Springfield, Mo." Back: An African American man in a hat and vest stands in the side yard of the clapboard residence of M.C. Walker in Lebanon, Missouri behind a wood-slat fence. Stamped across the bottom front of the photograph, "The res'd. of M. C. Walker Lebanon, Mo."
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-211.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Pioneer Mother statue and a women standing in front of it

An unidentified white woman wearing a dress and hat stands with her hands on her hips in front of the Pioneer Mother statue, Alexander Phimister Proctor, artist, in Penn Valley Park in Kansas City, Missouri. Possibly a coat is lying on the ground to her left.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-212.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271