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Title: Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon
Description: Interior pose of Joe Sanders on the left and Carleton Coon on the right. Probably taken in Kansas City around 1919-1920.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sheet Music Cover
Description: The sheet music cover for the Joe Sanders composition Nighthawk Blues which was the early theme song for the Nighthawks group. Photographs on the bottom includes the band and individual portraits of Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon as well as Leo Fitzpatrick who was the radio announcer for WDAF's Nighthawk Frolics.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Dells Nightclub
Description: Exterior view of the building and entrance to The Dells, a nightclub located in Morton Grove, Illinois. Joe Sanders' Auburn car is parked under the canopy. The band played here several summers in the late 1920s.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coon-Sanders Novelty Orchestra
Description: Group pose identified on the drum as Coon-Sanders Novelty Orchestra, Gayety Theatre Bldg., Kansas City Missouri. Includes Joe Sanders at the piano and Carleton Coon by smaller drum. Other members not identified. Believed to be early group, although probably not the first.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coon-Sanders Novelty Orchestra
Description: Early, interior view of Coon-Sanders group. Information on drum in picture reads: "Sure Its' Coon-Sanders Novelty Orchestra, Gayety Theatre Bldg., Harrison 859, Kansas City, Mo." It is noted on back that this particular photograph was courtesy of Harvey Rettberg, Pickens, S.C.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon
Description: Interior pose of Joe Sanders on the left and Carleton Coon on the right. Probably taken in Kansas City.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon
Description: Interior pose of Joe Sanders on the left and Carleton Coon on the right. Probably taken in Kansas City.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph