Music, Dance and Theater | KC History - Missouri Valley Special Collections

Portrait and group shots of musicians, dancers, and actors comprise this digital collection. The following special collections are included: Dory DeAngelo; Charles Johnson; Felice Lyne; Miracle Scrapbook; Helen Seibert Thomes; Youth Symphony; and Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra Scrapbooks.

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Jane Ward

Exterior view in front of home, full body portrait in dance costume identified as Jane Ward.

Jascha Heifetz

Performance view of violinist Jascha Heifetz.

1945~

Jean-Jacques Kantorow

Identified on back of photograph as Jean-Jacques Kantorow, violinist.

Jeannette Bate

Full body portrait in dance costume identified as Jeannette Bate. Identified in the newspaper clipppings in the collection as the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart M. Bate, 4923 Main Street and 217 W. 67th Street.

1925

Jeannette Bate

Partial body portrait in dance costume identified as Jeannette Bate.

1925

Joan Fullington and Geraldine Hensler

Autographed portrait in dance costume of Joan Fullington and Geraldine Hensler.

1930~

Joyce Mathis

Stamped on back of photograph as Joyce Mathis, soprano.

Juvenile Military Band

Wording on drum in photograph is "George Washington Juvenile Military Band, Kansas City, Kansas (?)". Charles Johnson is identified as "2nd row from front, 3 person over from right".

Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra

Full stage, interior view of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, location not given. Includes a portrait insert of conductor Karl Krueger. Noted as the 1939-40 season.

1940

Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra

View of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance. Believed to be taken in the Music Hall.

1955~

Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra

Full stage, interior view of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, location unknown. Includes insert portrait of Karl Krueger who was the orchestra's conductor from 1933 to 1943. Location is probably the Music Hall.

1940~

Kansas City Youth Symphony Officials

Row of mostly unidentified individuals in an unknown location. The young man in the middle is Jack L. Herriman, Youth Symphony conductor in the 1960s and 1970s.

Karl Krueger

Portrait of Kansas City Philharmonic Conductor Karl Krueger.

1940~

Katherine Neuer

Autographed, full body portrait in dance costume of Katherine Neuer, daughter of Mrs. Ed Neuer, 5414 Cherry Street.

1926

Katherine Neuer

Full body portrait in dance costume of Katherine Neuer. According to newspaper clippings in Scrapbook #2 of the collection, she is the daughter of Mrs. Ed Neuer, 5414 Cherry Street.

1926

Katherine Neuer

Autographed portrait in dance attire of Katherine Neuer.

1926

Katherine Welch

Full body view identified as Katherine Welch in dance costume.

1934

KMBC-TV Noon Show

Dory DeAngelo (right) and two unidentified actors in the KMBC-TV musical production of South Pacific (1957).

KMBC-TV Noon Show

Cast members of the KMBC-TV Noon Show (1957). Dory DeAngelo is seated in the front row, second from left.

1957

KMBC-TV Noon Show

Actress Dory DeAngelo playing Annie Oakley in the KMBC-TV Noon Show production of Annie Get your Gun (1957).

1957

Laura Cooke

Full body portrait in ballerina costume of Laura Cooke. According to the newspaper clippings found in Scrapbook #2 of the collection, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thornton Cooke.

1931

Laura Cooke and Phillip Martinez

Full body portrait in dance costume identified as dancers Laura Cooke and Phillip Martinez.

Le Soldat du Chene, Osage Chief

Illustration of Le Soldat du Chene, Second Chief of the Little Osage Nation.

Letitia Zeller

Autographed, full body portrait in dance costume identified as Letitia Zeller. Autograph reads: "To dear Miss Thomes, affectionately, Letitia".

Lewis Kitchen

Portrait of Lewis Kitchen, president of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchesta in the mid-1950s.

1955~