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Title
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Rex Downing and Hilda Rettberg
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Description
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Exterior view, identified as Rex Downing and Hilda Rettberg. Negative envelope reads: "Rex Downing (Tbn.,Coon-Sanders), Little Rock [Arkansas], June, 1961".
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Date
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1961
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Club Forest, New Orleans, Louisiana
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Description
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Exterior, full front view of Club Forest located in New Orleans, Louisana. The band played here for three weeks in August-September, 1931.
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Date
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1931
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Harold Thiell
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Description
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Exterior view, identified as Harold Thiell who played reeds with the Coon-Sanders Band. Location of photograph given as St. Augustine, September 1961.
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Date
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1961
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Clyde Hahn and Others
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Description
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Exterior view, identified on negative envelope as left to right: Hilda Rettberg, Sis Stout, Clyde Hahn, and Russ Stout. Taken at Whitewater Falls (South Carolina?) in 1961.
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Date
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1961
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Floyd Estep
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Description
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Exterior view of Floyd Estep. Identification written on negative envelope: "Floyd Estep (Reeds, C-S), Burbank, Cal., 1961".
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Date
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1961
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Carleton Coon
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Description
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Portrait of Carleton Coon.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
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Description
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Joe Sanders at the piano, Carleton Coon by drums, and the rest of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks. Location not identified.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon
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Description
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Exterior view of Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon beside automobile in Omaha, Nebraska. Sanders captions photo in his scrapbook as, "Fresh air taxicab Co., Omaha."
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Date
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1927-04
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon at Union Station
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Description
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Exterior view of Joe Sanders with fur coat, bowler hat and spats standing beside Carleton Coon. Both are by a car parked at Union Station. Band was welcomed back in Kansas City on December 9, 1927. According to Edmiston's book, they were waiting for a parade to start.
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Date
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1927-12-09
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
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Description
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Exterior view of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks waiting for a train at the Mattoon, Illinois train depot. According to Edmiston, this would be the group's first road trip. Identified as: Knapp, J. Thiell, Sanders, Musolino, Cory Adams (assistant tour manager), Birge, Richolson, Estep, and Linder (tour manager).
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Date
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1924-09
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Carleton Coon
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Description
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View of Carleton Coon wearing a damaged straw hat while on tour. Sanders in his scrapbook captions this photo: "You'd never [know] the old boy now. Coonie being himself at Uniontown, Pa."
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Date
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1925
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Joe Sanders and Orville Knapp
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Description
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Exterior view of reeds player Orville Knapp on the left and Joe Sanders on the right. Sanders captions the photo in his scrapbook: "A great picture of Knapp, engaged in an old Swedish custom with me." According to Edmiston's book, p. 328 - "Orville Knapp played reeds...After he left Coon-Sanders in the summer of 1925, he eventually clicked with his own band that he started in 1934." His career was cut short when the airplane he was piloting crashed on July 16, 1936, near Boston, Massachusetts.
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Date
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1924-09
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
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Description
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Formal group portrait of orchestra at the Hotel Muehlebach.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Coon Sanders Novelty Orchestra
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Description
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Eight-members of the novelty orchestra of Coon Sanders shown with instruments, including a baby-grand piano, on stage in unknown place. Printed on the front of the drum: Coon Sanders Novelty Orchestra/Exponents of Aristocratic Jazz.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Coon Sanders Novelty Orchestra
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Description
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Eight-members of the novelty orchestra of Coon Sanders shown with instruments, including a baby-grand piano, on stage in unknown place. Printed on the front of the drum: "Coon Sanders Novelty Orchestra/Exponents of Aristocratic Jazz."
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Ralph Charles and Biplane
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Description
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Exterior view of pilot Ralph Charles standing by his biplane called Miss Buckeye. According to Edmiston's book, Mr. Charles took Joe Sanders on his first airplane ride going from Zanesville, Ohio, to Charleston, West Virginia, where the band played on October 1, 1927.
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Date
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1927~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Joe Richolson
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Description
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View of Nighthawks member Joe Richolson looking out a train window. Location not given. Sanders captions the photo in his scrapbook as: "Just an Ambitious Boy Looking for Light."
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Date
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1927~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Frank M. (Pop) Estep
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Description
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Portrait identified as Frank M. (Pop) Estep, bass player for the Nighthawks. According to Edmiston's book, p. 326-7 - Frank (Pop) Estep was born in Adrian, Missouri, in 1878. He played bass with the Nighthawks from late 1922 or early 1923 until late 1927 or early 1928. He eventually moved to California and died in 1949.
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Date
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1927~
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
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Description
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Exterioir view of the back side of three men. Identified in Sanders scrapbook A as: "The Triple Threat - Stout, Downing & Pope." Location and date not given. Edmiston gives date as probably 1927.
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Date
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1927~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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