Chorus gathered for a photo in a parlor

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Repository

LaBudde Special Collections

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Description

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.

Member of

Dolores Hobley Collection

Language English

Date Published

1941

1950

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Subject, Old

African American men

African American women

Men

White

Choirs (Music)

Choral conductors

College students

Image Credit

Williams Studio (Kansas City, Missouri)

Time Period

1941-1950

Subject (Geographic)

Kansas City (Mo.)

Subject (Geographic, LCSH)

Kansas City (Mo.)

Notes

No date; likely circa 1940, Related range: P28-51; laminated; handwritten on back: "Chorus"; part of assembled binder titled "Western Baptist Seminary / K.C.M.O. / Chorus Director / Mrs. D.A. Holmes." Stamped on back, "Williams Photo Studio 1808 Vine St. Kansas City, MO. Phone GRand 9085.", Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

Extent Of Original

1 photograph : black and white print ; 21 x 26 cm

Filename

umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-032.tif

Genres

Gelatin silver prints

Black & white photographs

Group portraits

Type

photographs