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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 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

Title: Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
Description: Interior view of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks musical group with insert portraits of Carleton Coon on the left and Joe Sanders on the right. Location not given, perhaps Chicago. Identified by Fred Edmiston in his book as: standing - Coon on left and Sanders on right; seated - Musolino, Estep, Richolson, Haid, J. Thiell, Knapp, and H. Thiell. Photograph acquired by Edmiston from Harvey Rettberg.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawks
Description: Composite photograph identified as the Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawks. A portrait of Carleton Coon is on the top left and one of Joe Sanders is on the top right. Written on the back side of the photo, "band that played the Blackhawk Restaurant, Chicago, Ill. and broadcast each nite on WGN." Edmiston note indicates that exception would be Bill Haid, center left, who left the band before the Nighthawk days. Other members not identified on the photograph. A "MCA Attraction" sticker is attached to the bottom right hand corner.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coon-Sanders Novelty Orchestra
Description: Interior view of the original Coon-Sanders Novelty Orchestra seated and posed with their instruments. Identified in Edmiston's book as left to right: Nick Musolino, Pop Estep, Joe Richolson, Joe Sanders, Carleton Coon, Bill Haid, John Thiell, Orville Knapp, and Harold Thiell.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

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