Dolores Hobley Collection

A studio portrait of an unidentified African American woman wearing her hair back, a pearl necklace, and a top with beads embroidered on the bodice.

A studio portrait of an unidentified African American woman looking over her left shoulder at the photographer. She wears eyeglasses, earrings, a bead necklace, a lace blouse under a sweater.

A studio head shot portrait of an unidentified African American woman looking over her right shoulder to smile at the photographer. She wears a dark blouse with a light-colored print pattern all over.

A studio head shot portrait of an unidentified African American woman from her right shoulder as she turns her head slightly to the right. She has bobbed hair.

A head shot studio portrait of an unidentified African American woman wearing a high dark collar with a brooch at the throat and a crew neck, light colored dress with dark decorative lace across the chest. She has a flat dark bow on top of her head.

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.

Helen Cole, an African American musician, grins at the photographer as she sits behind a drum set and crosses her hands to play. Her shadow is on the wall in the spotlight of light around her. She wears earrings, a floral print blouse under a solid suit jacket. The bass drum head has a patch in the center. A printed signature on the bottom left says, "Bloom Chicago."

A studio head shot portrait of Helen Griffin wearing a large feather hat and a fur coat.

Left to right: Herbert Strong, Joe Hubbard, and an unidentified African American man standing indoors grinning at the photographer. Handwritten below in the margin of the photograph, "1976 Herbert Strong, Joe Hubbard."

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."