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
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-040.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-041.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-042.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-043.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-044.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-045.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-046.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-047.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-048.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-049.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-050.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-051.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-028.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-029.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-030.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
An African American male instructor leans against a wall on the right back as he speaks with African American co-ed business skills students crowded into a small office doing various clerical duties at the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. In the front left of the photograph, two men are seated on either side of a table filling out paperwork or cutting paper. The one writing looks directly at the photographer. On the right side of the photograph, a woman leans against a file cabinet while reading papers on top of the cabinet. Two women sit at a desk; smiling as one is typing and the other is writing. The others stand at the back of the photograph and the back of the office. There are two floor-to-ceiling windows at the back of the office.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-031.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
A group photograph of a co-ed African American chorus with an unidentified white male choral director standing and crouching in rows in a crowded, small parlor at the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The females where dresses and the males wear suit jackets and neckties.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-032.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
An African American male instructor wearing a three-piece suit, stands in the center back teaching clerical skills to a class of African American co-ed students in a classroom at the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. There is a mimeograph machine at the back wall and a typewriter on a table. The other students are writing with pen or pencil and paper. The females wear anklet socks and flat shoes. "Hall's Photo Service" is printed on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph. "Love you so" is written in pencil on the top right of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-033.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
A group photograph of the African American co-ed Literary Society standing in rows on the steps at Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The African American instructor/leader stands in the middle in the front. The women wear skirts or dresses; some with coats. The men mostly wear jackets and neckties.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-034.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
An unidentified African American co-ed group standing in a "V" formation for a photograph at Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The women wear skirts and blouses with anklet socks and flat shoes. The men wear suits with neckties. Most wear a round white button or sticker on their left lapel or chest.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-035.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
An large unidentified co-ed group of African American men, women, and children and one white man seated in the center on the ground in the photograph on the grounds of Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Not many of the group are smiling. The first row sits on the ground. The second row is seated. The back rows are standing near the building.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-036.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
An unidentified African American co-ed group photograph on the steps of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. In the center of the front row is choral director, Mrs. D.A. Holmes.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-037.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
Four rows of an African American co-ed group of the Literary Society just in front of the porch of the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The first row crouches while the back rows stand. Everyone is wearing coats. Most are smiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-038.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
A group photograph of the Missouri Baptist Young People's Department of African American Women's Convention just in front of the porch of Goins Hall on the Western Baptist Seminary campus at 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. There are a few African American men and children. There are mostly African American women and three white women. The first row sits in chairs and the following rows stand on the steps up to the porch. A sign above the porch attached to the balcony fence reads, "Goins Hall." Handwritten in white just below Goins Hall, "Missouri Baptist Young People's Dep't. of Women's Convention. Assembled at Western Seminary. July 23-28, 1945 Kansas City Mo."
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-039.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
