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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LaBudde Special Collections
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Three people stand wearing their fraternal order fezzes

Two unidentified African American men in fraternal order fezzes flanking an unidentified African American woman in the women's auxiliary envelope cap stand outside a building.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-134.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Four men sitting on the grass by the car

Four unidentified African American men sitting in the grass next to a parked car on the passenger side. All are dressed in suits with either bowties or neckties.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-143.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Driving in the car

An unidentified African American man driving a four-door convertible car on a dirt road in front of a small house. There are telephone poles along the road and more houses at the edge of the right side of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-144.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Woman standing by the front left of a car

An unidentified African American woman stands in front of a car's front left fender. A bit of double exposure with the door looking like it is both open and closed. A line of trees are behind her and the car.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-145.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Related photos 146-156

Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-146.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Boy standing next to the car

An unidentified African American boy stands on the curb on the passenger side next to a 1946-1948 Ford with a Kansas license plate parked in a residential area. On the other side of the street is a sign advertising Dodd's Cleaners and Coco-Cola.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-163.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Two cars on a road deep in the snow

An unidentified African American man, wearing a flat cap and smoking a cigar, stands inside the open passenger side door of possibly a 1930s Chevrolet with a grill tarp. A driver sits inside on the driver's side behind the steering wheel. The road has snow piled above the height of the car on either side of the road. Another car is behind the car in the foreground of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-164.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Two people stand beside a car

An unidentified, well-dressed, African American man and woman stand next the driver's side of a car. A house is on the other side of the car. The photographer caught the smiling man with his eyes closed.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-165.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Group riding in a car

An unidentified group in an open car, including a African American woman (driving), and an African American man and children. A young girl sits in the passenger seat. And in the backseat, a likely teenage girl sits behind the passenger seat holding a baby. The man to her left, "Father", also holds a toddler.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-166.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Learning to walk

An unidentified African American toddler, wearing a hat and coat, sits in a walker on a sidewalk near a street. A fire hydrant is behind her. A car is parked across the street in front of several two-story apartment buildings.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-173.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Children playing in a toy wagon

An unidentified African American child in the front of a toy wagon, likely an "American Coaster" has a big grin as the unidentified African American child in the back of the wagon covers his or her eyes. One wheel has fallen off of the sidewalk at what appears to be the bottom of a hill. Houses and another group of children playing are in the background. The shadows of the photographer and the children are on the ground.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-174.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Woman pulling a wheelbarrow

An unidentified African American woman pulling a wheelbarrow behind her by standing between the handles, one in each hand. A car is parked in the background.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-167.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Sawing a stump

An unidentified African American man and a boy stand on either side of a stump lying on its side, holding it steady. Another unidentified African American man pushes one side of a two-man crosscut saw already a quarter-way through the stump. The man using the saw looks over his left shoulder at the photographer. A rotting barn is behind the group.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-168.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Resting in the grass

Two unidentified African American kids, one a girl; the other a baby, smile as they are sitting in the grass while adult African American women socialize nearby. The women wear full-length, light-colored dresses and hold parasols. Across the field, horses rest in the shade of the woods.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-171.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271
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Good friends

Two unidentified kids in summer clothes grin as they stand with their arms around each other's shoulder on the steps to a house.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-172.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0271