Kansas City in the Jazz Age & Great Depression

Pianos

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Boy's Club Recreation Room

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Photograph of seven young men in the recreation room and lobby of the Boy's Hotel and Boy's Club.

Second Annual Concert of the Cathedral Choir of Kansas City at Shubert Theatre

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Photograph of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Choir at their second annual concert at Shubert Theatre on June 2, 1922.

Bennie Moten's Victor Recording Orchestra

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Bennie Moten's Victor Recording Artists posed around piano taken by Bert Photo Studio, Kansas City, Missouri, ca. 1926. Source: Charles Goodwin.

Mary Lou Williams and Andy Kirk

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Mary Lou Williams and Andy Kirk looking over an arrangement of "Moten Swing" for Decca Records "Kansas City Jazz" album produced by Dave Dexter. Williams is playing the piano and Kirk is standing next to her, holding music in one hand and a drink in the other hand while looking down.

Conservatory of Music class at Brookside Hall

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Female instructor and six young girls attending a Kansas City Conservatory of Music class in 1920. Brookside Hall was located on the second story of the Brookside Building at the northeast corner of 63rd Street and Brookside Boulevard.

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