Dolores Hobley Collection

Description
The Dolores Hobley Collection was formed by various purchases from her business at Waldo Antiques of Kansas City. The collection consists of photographs that primarily reflect aspects of the African-American cultural experience during the late 19th century and into the 20th century, including in and around Kansas City.
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Fire engine of Engine House no. 1

Five African American male fire fighters in their uniforms, pose for a photograph with a fire engine. Two fire fighters sit in the driver's and passenger's seats of the fire engine while two stand along the side and one stands on the back running board just outside the garage door opening to Engine House No. 1. The letters painted on the hood of the fire engine are K.C.F.D. The building behind the fire engine and next door to the fire house has "Wholesale Dickerson Cleaning" painted on the brick wall. An African American man leans on a light post outside the front door of Dickerson Cleaning.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Group standing in a general store

An unidentified group of six African American men and two African American women stand inside a business. In the bottom right corner is a shoe shine chair (shoe shine stand). Behind the shoe shine stand along the wall are three pinball machines which one man with a cigar in his right hand and one woman lean on. Another man stands behind the third pinball machine. In the aisle between the pinball machines and the sales counter, stand two men and one woman. The woman is holding a cigarette in her right hand. Two men lean along the sales counter on the left side of the photograph. At the farthest end of the counter is an open doorway with a sign above that reads, "No admittance. Employees only. Requested by Mgr." Inside the room behind the doorway are soft drink crates stacked in front of a what is possibly a jukebox. Behind the counter are shelves with cubbies for different flat storage items. On the top frame of the shelves is a sign that reads, "Luckies tastes better." On top of the shelves is a uniform hat and other assorted items. In the front right corner is a glass display case with a slanted front glass with what appears to be display boxes of candy inside of the case. A single ceiling lamp hangs in the upper right hand corner.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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T.B. Watkins

A professional head shot photograph of T.B. Watkins [Theron B. Watkins] in Kansas City, Missouri seated with a slight smile as he wears a white shirt, printed necktie, a tie chain with a "W" as decoration, a vest and suit jacket with a pocket square in the left breast pocket. He looks to the photographer's left instead of directly at the photographer.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Myra Taylor sings with the Curtyse Foster Band

Myra Taylor sings with the Curtyse Foster Band at an unidentified venue in Kansas City. Farthest to the left Bunnie "Bumps" Love smiles to her right at the photographer as she sits with her hands on the piano keys. To the right is the unidentified bass player. In the center front is Myra Taylor with her arms spread as she smiles and sings into a microphone on the stand in front of her. She wears a full-length evening gown. To her left behind her on the stage is Curtyse Foster wearing a tuxedo and blowing into a saxophone. To Curtyse's left and behind him on stage is Bill Nolan smiling and playing the drums. To Bill's left and in front of Bill on the stage, Elmer Price blows into a trumpet. There is a derby hat hanging on a stand in front of Elmer Price. The front corners of the stage are decorated with organ pipes.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Band playing at the Jockey Jazz Club

A band sits on stage likely playing jazz at the Jockey Club, 10th and Paseo in Kansas City, Missouri. Farthest to the left is Bill Jones playing drums as he wears sunglasses. In front of Bill and to his left is a seated unidentified sax player blowing into his alto saxophone. To his left in the center of the stage is an unidentified bass player with his head slightly bent forward but his eyes looking up straight at the photographer. Behind the bass player and to his left is William Fisher playing the piano and looking out between the piano and the lifted lid. In front of William Fisher and slightly to his left is an unidentified seated trumpet player blowing into his horn. Around the edge of the stage is a scalloped stage decoration of two horse heads facing each other with a jockey's cap in between them. On the door to the back right there is a "J" over a "C" logo on the window to indicated the Jockey Club.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Cole Bros. Circus Band

Coles Brother's Circus Band stands on and in front of a stage with a banner behind them of women dancing in costume. The men wear light, long-sleeved shirts with Cole Bros. Circus printed on the left breast pocket, white captain's hats with dark brims, and short, wide striped neckties. The three African American women wear dance costumes and hold a pose in the center on the stage. Farthest to the left on stage is a baritone player. To his left is a tenor saxophone player. The three women are to the left of the saxophone player. To their left of the dancers is a trumpet player and then a trombone player. On the ground in front of the stage base curtains is a snare drummer farthest to the left. To his left is P.G. Lowry the cornet player and bandleader. To P.G. Lowry's left is the bass drummer. To the bass drummer's left is an alto saxophone and soprano saxophone player. Farthest to the right is the tuba player. The number 3436 is printed on the bottom of the photograph between the alto saxophonist and the tuba player. Handwritten at the top, "Coles Bro's Circus - 1937." Handwritten on the bottom, "P.G. Lowry."
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Memphis Slim

Jazz pianist Memphis Slim's head and shoulders are visible and he does not smile as he holds a microphone across his chest with his right hand and sits at a piano at an unidentified venue. There is a wall mural behind him of mountains and sky. A Schlitz beer sits on a table in the foreground. Memphis Slim wears a light colored shirt, necktie, and suit jacket.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Night of drinking

An unidentified African American woman with her arms around the shoulders of two unidentified, unenthused, African American men, sit at a table while having drinks at an unidentified venue. The table has a tablecloth, four glasses, a glass bowl with ice in it, a bottle of Seagram's 7, a bottle of White Rose, and what is likely a bottle of seltzer water and a bottle of water. The man to her right wears a wide tie with a large swirl pattern over a dark shirt, under a vest, under a suit jacket. She wears a dark blouse with a bow at the collar as she smiles at the man to her right. The man to her left wears a light colored suit with a wide printed dark tie. He holds a cigarette in his left hand. He appears to have a scar on his upper lip from his left nostril to his lip. Five unidentified African American men sit at other tables behind the trio.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Two women at the Jockey Club

Two unidentified smiling African American women and other African American men and women on Thanksgiving inside the Jockey Club, 10th and Paseo, Kansas City, Missouri. The woman to the left is holding a cigarette in her left hand as she wears a white tall hat with a large brooch in the center top, a corsage on her left shoulder, a dark, short-sleeved, mid-length dress and dark sleeves that come above her elbows, and open-toed heels with ankle straps. She holds a cigarette in her left hand. The woman to the right, possibly Louise, wears a small disk-shaped hat with two feathers curled to be attached, a three-strand pearl necklace, a large corsage on her left shoulder, a pressed-silk button-down blouse over a matching pressed silk skirt, open-toed heels with ankle straps. Two laughing men holding drinks are behind the ladies' right shoulders. Another man mostly out of the photograph is seated to their left.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Bridget, Louise, and Darnella visit Sportree Reed's Music Bar

Three African American women, Bridget, Louise and Darnella, smile at the photographer as they are seated at a counter at Sportree Reed's Music Bar, 2014 Hastings, Detroit, Michigan. Bridget wears a square, flat hat, a button-down, long-sleeved dress, earrings and a brooch. Louise wears a wrap-around dress with earrings and a brooch. Both Bridget and Louise hold cigarettes. Darnella wears earrings and a pearl necklace and a long-sleeved jacket over a floral dress. Both Bridget and Darnella are drinking Coca-Colas out of a small glass bottle poured into glasses of ice. Louise drinks a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer out of the bottle and holds possibly two mallets or lollipops in her left hand. On the bar is an ashtray, a glass with straws in it and many empty glasses upside down on the bar.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Two women at the Copacabana in New York

Two unidentified African American women wearing fur stoles smile at the photographer while dining at the Copacabana, 10 E. 60th, in New York. The woman on the left wears eyeglasses, earrings and a brooch on a dark dress. The woman on the right wears earrings, a necklace and a floral pattern dress. The food is served on matching China with glasses of water on a table with a tablecloth. A lady seated behind them sits in front of a large wall vent.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Helen Cole poses as she plays a drum set

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."
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Maureen Smith playing the piano

Maureen Smith stands with her left side to the photographer and turns her head toward her left shoulder to smile at the photographer as she stands with her hands on the keys of a upright piano. She wears earrings, a floral print blouse, a solid suit jacket and a matching mid-length pleated skirt with flat shoes with ankle straps. A printed signature on the bottom left says, "Bloom Chicago."
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Diners smile at the photographer

An unidentified group of three African American men and two African American women smile as they share a meal inside an unidentified diner. Two of the men sit on either side of a woman on the left side of the photograph. The woman and the man to her left hold cigarettes in their right hands. At the end of the "U"-shaped counter another woman sits with a man leaning over her left shoulder to smile at the photographer. He wears an envelope-style hat. There are drinking glasses, dishes, and condiment holders on the counter. The photograph is taken through two large elephant ear leaves that match the wall painting behind the patrons of a bird cage in among elephant ear plants and palms.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Man and woman seated at a table

Darnella, and an African American man [possibly Kansas City jazz pianist Bob Wilson?] are seated at a table with a tablecloth, two beverages for each, and a glass ashtray at an unidentified venue. She wears a hat that looks like a head wrap, a suit jacket, a large lion brooch, earrings and bracelets. He wears a plaid bow tie with his wide-lapel, double-breasted suit jacket, and sunglasses. There are pipe barriers behind them. No one else is sitting at the tables behind the couple.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0271