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Title
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Joe Sanders At Home
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Description
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Exterior view of local band leader Joe Sanders standing in front of his home at 7626 Pennsylvania in Kansas City, Missouri. Photo believed to have been taken by Harvey Rettberg or his wife when they visited Sanders and his wife Gertrude on July 16, 1961. Sanders would have been around 64 years old at the time, four years before his death in 1965.
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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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Joe Sanders At Home
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Description
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Exterior body view of local musician Joe Sanders standing outside his home at 7626 Pennsylvania in Kansas City, Missouri. Photograph believed to have been taken by Harvey Rettberg or his wife while they visited Sanders and his wife Gertrude in the summer of 1961. Sanders would be around 64 years old at the time.
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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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Joe Sanders At Home
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Description
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Exterior partial body view of local musician Joe Sanders standing outside his home at 7626 Pennsylvania in Kansas City, Missouri. Photograph believed to have been taken by Harvey Rettberg or his wife while they visited Sanders and his wife Gertrude in the summer of 1961. Sanders would be around 64 years old at the time.
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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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Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1905-06-27
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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SC1-2 Harvey Rettberg Papers Finding Aid
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Description
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Collection of correspondence, publications, photographs, newspaper clippings (including obituaries), etc., belonging to Harvey Rettberg, co-founder of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks Fan Club. Includes information on Joe Sanders, Carleton Coon, and many other musicians like Phil Baxter, Boyd Senter, Jimmy Cullum, Curt Hitch, Tony Parenti, Harry and Edmond Souchon, Carleton Coon family, etc.
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Date
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1950~/1999~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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SC1-3 Fred Edmiston Papers Finding Aid
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Description
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Collection of material contained in five boxes that relates to the publication of "The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks: The Band That Made Radio Famous," authored by Fred Edmiston. This book recounts the Nighthawks formation and early years up to Carleton Coon's death in 1932. The collection includes primarily correspondence, photocopies of newspaper articles, photographs, audio recordings, and motion pictures, as well as a scrapbook that features Johnny Coon, Carleton Coon's son.
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Date
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1920~/2003~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
