Helen Cole poses as she plays a drum set

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Repository

LaBudde Special Collections

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Description

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."

Member of

Dolores Hobley Collection

Language English

Date Published

1951

1960

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Subject, Old

African American jazz musicians

Jazz musicians

Drummers (Musicians)

African American women

Image Credit

Bloom (Chicago)

Time Period

1951-1960

Subject (Geographic)

Chicago (Ill.)

Subject (Geographic, LCSH)

Chicago (Ill.)

Notes

No date; likely circa 1950, Purchased from Dolores Hobley, c. early 2010s. Handwritten on back, "Helen Cole.", Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

Extent Of Original

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

Filename

umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-012.tif

Genres

Gelatin silver prints

Black & white photographs

Portrait photographs

Publicity photographs

Type

photographs