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Title: Floyd Estep
Description: Exterior view of Floyd Estep. Identification written on negative envelope: "Floyd Estep (Reeds, C-S), Burbank, Cal., 1961".
Date: 1961
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joe Sanders Standing By 1931 Cord Automobile
Description: Exterior view of Joe Sanders leaning on his 1931 Cord with the Coon-Sanders Orchestra sign on the trunk.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Carleton Coon
Description: Portrait of Carleton Coon.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
Description: Joe Sanders at the piano, Carleton Coon by drums, and the rest of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks. Location not identified.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon
Description: 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."
Date: 1927-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon at Union Station
Description: 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.
Date: 1927-12-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Carleton Coon
Description: 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."
Date: 1925
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
Description: Formal group portrait of orchestra at the Hotel Muehlebach.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coon Sanders Novelty Orchestra
Description: 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.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coon Sanders Novelty Orchestra
Description: 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."
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ralph Charles and Biplane
Description: 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.
Date: 1927~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joe Richolson
Description: 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."
Date: 1927~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Frank M. (Pop) Estep
Description: 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.
Date: 1927~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
Description: 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.
Date: 1927~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
Description: Identified in Edmiston's book as "Framed Nighthawk display for an engagement about late 1925." Identification clockwise from top-right: Sanders, H. Thiell, F. Estep, J. Thiell, Haid, Downing, Pope, Richolson, Pop Estep, and Coon.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
Description: Interior view, Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, location not given. Identified on back by Fred Edmiston as: From left: Elmer Krebs, bass; Joe Sanders, piano; Carleton Coon, drums; Russ Stout, banjo; Joe Richolson, trumpet; Harold Thiell, reeds; Bob Pope, trumpet; Floyd Estep, reeds; Rex Downing, trombone; John Thiell, reeds.
Date: 1929~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
Description: Interior view of the group with a NBC microphone standing near them. Identified in Edmiston's book as Top row (from left): Pope and Richolson; middle row (from left): Krebs, Downing, H. Thiell, and Stout; front row (from left): Sanders, Coon, Estep, and J. Thiell.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Members Sleeping
Description: View of a couple of unidentified Nighthawks trying to sleep in an unidentified train depot while on tour. Sanders in his scrapbook captions the photo: "No! not dead Mexican insurrectionists! Merely two worn out Night Hawks waiting for a train at four a.m."
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Carleton Coon and Eula Coon
Description: Full body view of Carleton Coon and his wife Eula. Location not given.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Henry Dewey Birge and Sara Birge
Description: Portraits identified in Edmiston's book as Henry Dewey Birge and his wife Sara. Birge was a Nighthawk banjoist in 1924-25.According to Edmiston's book, p. 324 - Henry Birge was a banjoist for the Nighthawks, leaving for family concerns in 1925 and being replaced by Bill Haid. He died in October 1958 after being struck by a bus. His wife Sara lived to the age of 101, dying in October 1999.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

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