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Title
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Group Portrait
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Description
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Joe Sanders with group of musicians which may be part of the Coon-Sanders Band shortly after the death of Carleton Coon. Identified on back as 1932 Nighthawk Band.
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Date
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1932
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Joe Sanders and Pop Estep
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Description
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View of Joe Sanders on the left standing next to Pop Estep, location not given. Sanders in his scrapbook labels this picture: "D'ya see that?"
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Joe Sanders In Cincinnati, Ohio
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Description
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Exterior view of Joe Sanders standing by his Hertz rental car in Cincinnati, Ohio. According to Edmiston's book, the band spent almost all of May 1927 there. Sanders in his scrapbook captions the photo, "Thanks to Mr. Hertz, I saw Cincinnati by motor."
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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 Sanders and Wife Madeline
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Description
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Outdoor view of Joe Sanders and his wife Madeline seated in a gondola outside of their accomodations at the Shelburne Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Sanders in his scrapbook captions the photo: "Mr. & Mrs. Broom in their gondola in front of Shelburne dining salon."
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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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Nighthawk's Luggage
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Description
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View of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks luggage while on tour being loaded onto a truck at Raub, Indiana, to be hauded to Silver Lake, Indiana. Sanders in his scrapbook captions this photo: "Loading the baggage at Raub for the overland haul to Silver Lake, Indiana." Believed to be Joe Sanders in the foreground.
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Date
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1926
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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 members of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks taken at Niagara Falls, New York. Identified by Edmiston in his book as from left: Floyd Estep, Bob Pope, Rex Downing, Russ Stout, Bud Wilkinson (tour manager), Joe Sanders, Johnny Coon (Carleton Coon's son), Pop Estep, and Joe Richolson.
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Date
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1926
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Joe Sanders
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Description
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View of Joe Sanders wearing a damaged straw hat while on tour. Sanders in his scrapbook captions this photo: "Conclusive evidence that summer was waning. Evidently 'had my mittens on.' Union town, Pa."
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Date
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1925-08
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Joe Sanders in Mattoon, Illinois
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Description
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View of Joe Sanders holding his slipper in his hand with Harold Thiell and Joe Richolson looking on. The location is Mattoon, Illinois. Sanders in his scrapbook describes as: "The carpet slipper tells the tale of a forgetful young man, who packed all his shoes and was forced to travel all day in slippers. Mattoon, Ill."
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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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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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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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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 Sanders on Tour
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Description
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Exterior view identified as Joe Sanders in front and Carl Nordberg standing beside Joe's Buick on the way to Oklahoma City to perform. Oil derricks can be seen in the background. Exact location not given. Group encountered flood conditions on the trip.
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Date
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1923-06
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Joe Sanders With Baseball Bat
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Description
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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."
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Date
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1926-06
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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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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.
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Date
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1926-04
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Joe Sanders and other Nighthawks
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1926~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Joe Sanders in Raub, Indiana
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Description
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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."
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Date
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1926-05-23
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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The Dance Band Era--The Dancing Decades from Ragtime to Swing: 1910-1950
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1971
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Object Type
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Book
