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Title: Coon-Sanders Nighthawks Tour Incident
Description: View of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks cars being pulled from the mud by horses near Odessa, Missouri. They were on tour traveling to Chicago, Illinois. Sanders captioned this photo in his scrapbook: "Mired to the guards near Odessa, Mo., we had miles of this to battle. Seven cars made the trip..."
Date: 1923-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joe Sanders With Baseball Bat
Description: Exterior view of Joe Sanders with baseball bat. Shown after hitting a ball to Joe Richolson at a train station in Marion, Ohio, while on tour. Also in view behind Richolson is "Axel Flooey" Lovendahl who was the assistant tour guide. Sanders notes his camera with his caption for the photograph in his scrapbook: "Not bad for little Brownie 2-A to stop the ball in mid-air."
Date: 1926-06
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
Description: Members of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks band are posed with their luggage beside a train car. Sanders in his scrapbook captions the photo: "The dirty dozen beside our palatial Burlington 'Toonerville' en route for a long hard ride of two miles--from Dubuque, Iowa, to E. Dubuque, Ill. This luxurious super-train, consisting of one coach, half baggage, half day coach, would have had a day off, but for us. We were the only passengers." The band's poster can be seen on the side of the train car. Edmiston in his book identifies from left: Rex Downing, Floyd Estep, Rex Stout, Bob Pope, Joe Sanders, Pop Estep, Linder (tour manager), J. Thiell, H. Thiell and Joe Richolson.
Date: 1926-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
Description: View of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks posed at the Plantation Grille, Muehlebach Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri. Identified in Edmiston's book, standing: Carleton Coon and Joe Sanders, seated from left Kohlman, Nordberg, Estep, Williams, McLean, and J. Thiell.
Date: 1923~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Carlton Coon Rites Friday
Description: Article announcing the death of Carleton Coon and the arrival of his body in Kansas City. Coon died May 4, 1932 in Chicago as a result of blood poisoning caused by an abcessed jaw.
Date: 1932-05-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Harold Thiell and Pop Estep
Description: Full body view of Harold Thiell on the left and Pop Estep on the right, both members of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks. Location of photo not given, taken while on tour.According to Edmiston's book, p. 332 - Harold Thiell played reeds for the Nighthawks and probably was with the band longer than any of the others except for Coon and Sanders. He died in the late 1960s.
Date: 1926~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Dudley Wilkinson
Description: Close-up view of Dudley Wilkinson, tour manager for the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks. May have been taken at Richmond, Indiana. Wilkinson replaced Hank Linder after he departed. Sanders in his scrapbook captions the photo: "The world's champion tour manager--formerly Nora Bayes' accompanist--Bus. Mgr. for a Ziegfeld show--and a wizard on time tables."
Date: 1926~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
Description: Identified by Fred Edmiston as a microphone picture. People are: top and clockwise - Russ Stout, Pop Estep, Joe Richolson, Bob Pope, Rex Downing, John Thiell, Harold Thiell, Floyd Estep and Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon in the center. Wording at bottom: "Music Corporation of America Presents Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawks Orchestra."
Date: 1926~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joe Sanders and other Nighthawks
Description: Exterior view of Joe Sanders on the left standing by fellow Nighthawk members Pop Estep, Bob Pope, and Harold Thiell, while on tour, location unidentified.
Date: 1926~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joe Sanders in Raub, Indiana
Description: Exterior view taken at the Raub, Indiana train station. Joe Sanders on left and (Poot) or Harold Thiell on the right. Both are enjoying cookies after not eating all day. Sanders captions the photo in his scrapbook, "Poot and I eating cookies at Raub, Indiana after an all day fast enroute to Silver Lake."
Date: 1926-05-23
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Carleton Coon
Description: Exterior view of Carleton Coon seated in the back seat of a convertible with two women in Olean, New York. Edmiston identifies in his book as: "A very ample Coonie, with female chaperones, Olean, New York, 3 October 1931. On Coonie's left is Eleanor Fisher, who with husband Bob, was instrumental in bringing the band to Olean. Others unidentified."
Date: 1931-10-03
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Rites for Carlton Coon
Description: Article describing the funeral of Carleton Coon, co-director of the Coon-Sanders Orchestra. The services were conducted by a minister of the Third Church of Christ Scientist, and Coon was buried in Mt. Moriah Cemetery.
Date: 1932-05-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon at Union Station
Description: Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon seated on their luggage inside Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri. Band is visible in the background.
Date: 1927-12-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC1-4 Clyde Hahn Collection Finding Aid
Description: Collection contains seven scrapbooks and other items compiled by Clyde Hahn, co-founder of the Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawks Club. Within the collection can be found photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other items.
Date: 1920/1980~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
Description: A portion of this book gives information on Carleton Coon and Joe Sanders and their musical group called The Nighthawks, "the most successful and influential of the early white bands to come out of Kansas City". Johnny Coon is also mentioned.
Date: 1905-06-27
Object Type: Book

Title: SC1-1 Joe Sanders Collection Finding Aid
Description: Joe Sanders was born in Thayer, Kansas, and spent the majority of his childhood in the Kansas City area. He started his musical performances as a boy soprano in local church choirs and graduated from Westport High School. After World War I he organized an orchestra with Carleton Coon called the Nighthawks which played on the local radio and traveled the country. After Mr. Coon's untimely death in 1932, Sanders continued as a composer, piano player, singer, and conductor of his own band. Sanders died in 1965. This collection of material, such as scrapbooks, travelogues, photos, sheet music, etc., provides information and detail about Sanders, covering his formative musical years and later successful band career. It also contains information on the relationship between Carleton Coon and Joe Sanders and the formation and travels of their band in the 1920s.
Date: 1908~/1950~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: The Big Band Almanac
Description: History of the Coon-Sanders Band, also known as the Kansas City Nighthawks, formed in 1919 with their first broadcasting over the radio in 1921. Subject of "doubtless the first radio fan club. ..the 'Nighthawk Club,'" on early WDAF radio programming.
Date: 1978
Object Type: Book

Title: Floyd Eugene Estep
Description: Interior view of a seated Floyd E. Estep, at age 87. Location is Los Angeles, California. Estep played reeds in the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks.
Date: 1987
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Frank M. (Pop) and Lulu Estep Grave Marker
Description: Close-up view of the grave marker for Frank M. (Pop) Estep (1878-1949) and his wife Lulu M. Estep (1877-1967), located in Vista, California. (Pop) Estep was a member of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, playing bass.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Dance Band Era--The Dancing Decades from Ragtime to Swing: 1910-1950
Description: History of the Coon-Sanders Band, also known as the Kansas City Nighthawks, a Kansas City and Chicago-based band (led by Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon) of the late 1910s to the early 1930s, performing regularly on WDAF radio, with photo and map.
Date: 1971
Object Type: Book

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