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Collection Identifier: MS-0271

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Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

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co-ed group on the grounds and porch of Western Seminary

An unidentified African American co-ed group of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The front row of boys are crouched on the ground. The second row of girls are seated. The following rows are standing with the top row on the porch of the seminary.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0271

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co-ed group on the grounds and porch of Western Seminary

An unidentified African American co-ed group of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The front row of girls are crouched on the ground. The second row of girls are standing. The following row of boys are standing with the top row of women on the porch of the two-story porch of the seminary.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0271

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Healthy & Happiness Club of Western Seminary

A smiling co-ed group photograph of the Health and Happiness Club as they sit and stand in a "U" formation around a desk with six people sitting at it in a building of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0271

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Quilters at Women's Missionary Union Work Day

A group photograph of African-American and white women looking down at their work while quilting in a room together as part of the African American Women's Missionary Union's annual workday of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The white women sit to the left and the African American women sit to the right with a stack of quilts in the center of the room. Most women sit on ladder back chairs. The four windows to the left are floor to ceiling. There is a man's portrait above the door at the back. There is a dark shiny curtain hanging across the back wall. The ceiling is pressed tin.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0271

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Group of Western Seminary staff

An unidentified African American co-ed group photograph, possibly faculty or staff of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, stand on the steps between two columns. The women wear flat hats with wide brims and carry handbags. The men wear suits. "Williams KC.MO" is printed in white handwriting script on the bottom right corner.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0271

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Literary Society of Western Seminary

A co-ed African American group of the Literary Society of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The front row sits in chairs. The back three rows stand on the steps up to the porch of the building with 2119 above the porch. "Williams KC.MO" is printed in white handwriting script on the bottom right corner.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0271

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Co-ed group photo on the grounds and steps of Western Seminary

An unidentified African American co-ed group at the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The first row crouches down while the following rows stand on the steps leading up to the building. A spider web transom window above the door is visible just above the top rows' heads. "Williams KC.MO #3548" is printed in white handwriting script on the bottom right corner.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0271

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Girls exercise on the grounds of Western Seminary

Twelve African American teenage girls exercise outdoors on the grounds of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Every other girl in the two rows either holds her arms out straight with her legs together or holds her hands together above her head with her legs apart. All of the girls wears skirts or dresses, anklet socks, and flat shoes. There are many trees behind them. "Williams KC.MO #3541" is printed in white handwriting script on the bottom right corner.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0271

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Teenage girls form a line on the ground of Western Seminary

Twenty five African American teenage girls are outdoors forming a line by each one subsequently sitting in the lap of the person behind them on the grounds of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Most girls wear dresses or skirts but there are four girls wearing pants. There is a residential area behind them as trees directly behind the line. "Williams KC.MO #3549" is printed in white handwriting script on the bottom right corner.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0271

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Teenaged boys playing basketball

A basketball game of an African American teenage boys' basketball team in white shorts and t-shirts with numbers on the front of the shirts playing an African American teenage boys' team in dark shorts with sleeveless t-shirts with number on the front of the shirts in the gymnasium of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. They stand under and around the basket looking up as if waiting for a ball that has been shot to go through the basket. A line of players and African American men sit along the wall and below large windows with wire grate over them and a few with blinds partially pulled. The length of the boys shorts is high above the knees. Two teens wear knee pads. They wear Converse hi-top tennis shoes. A volleyball net is wound and stored in the back left corner.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0271

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Baton twirlers

African American female baton twirlers perform on the court of the gymnasium of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. In one line behind the leader with a whistle in her mouth, they each hold the baton above their head with both hands and step forward with their right foot. All wear a light colored t-shirt, a light-colored pleated, thigh-length skirt, and mid-calf, light color boots with tassels on the front. Behind the girls, under the basketball basket, an African American man and woman sit in upholstered chairs and wear large corsages. The woman has a crown on her head. The man is wearing a fedora hat. To the right and behind the girls, African American boys and men sit against the wall wearing suits. On the center farthest right in the photograph stands a white man in a suit by a table with a basketball on it.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0271

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Homecoming queen of Western Baptist Seminary

The African American "Miss Homecoming - Western Baptist Seminary" sits smiling on the back hood of a decorated convertible, two-door sedan and her African American entourage sit inside the car of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The street is brick. There are two cars parked behind them facing the other way. An empty field with some stone building or wall ruins are behind the street. A printed sign attached to the passenger's door reads, "Miss HOMECOMING Western Baptist Seminary." There are twirled streamers attached to the grill and front fender and flowing all the way to the back of the car. There are two men with a woman in the middle in the front seat. There are two women in the back seat on either side of the queen.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0271

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Western Seminary Chorus

Group photograph of an African American co-ed chorus under the direction of Mrs. D.A. Holmes standing in rows on the steps if the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The first three rows of chorus members are young women wearing dresses. The member on the first row, second from the left, holds a triangle. The director on the far right, holds a baton. The back row of chorus members are five young men.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0271

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Western Seminary typing class

An African American female instructor with thirteen African American female students sitting at desks with typewriters and stationery at Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The instructor stands in the back left corner of the room. Samples of work are along the back wall. The students sit at the typewriter tables either typing or studying shorthand. Some of the typewriters are Lindenwood, Remington, and Royal typewriters.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0271

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Lecture Hour students

Group photograph of the African American female Lecture Hour students under the direction of Rosa B. Johnson standing in rows on the steps of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Most of the women wear coats or suit jackets, anklet socks, and skirts or jumpers. 2119 is on the building between the columns behind the women.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0271