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Title: Unknown Pianist
Description: Unknown man seated at a piano at the Hotel Muehlebach's Plantation Grill.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Unknown Orchestra
Description: Group portrait of members of an unknown orchestra or band standing before the stage at the Hotel Muehlebach in what is believed to be the Plantation Grill. Sign hanging from the top middle of back drop has three lines of text of names. The top begins CHARLES [last name behind hanging flowers]; second line is WILLIAM[*] S[***]ERS; the third line is ZEZ CON[FR?]EY. It's possible the Charles refers to composer and band leader Charles L. Johnson. Zez Confrey is the nick name of Edward Elzear, a pianist and composer.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ted Weems Orchestra
Description: Group portrait of comedians and orchestra at the Muehlebach Hotel.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ted Weems Orchestra
Description: Interior view of the Ted Weems Orchestra with Weems in the center. Location not given, but presumed to be at the Muehlebach Hotel.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ted Weems and His Orchestra
Description: Interior, stage view of the Ted Weems Orchestra with Weems standing in the left center. Location not given on photo but same photo in P1 collection indicates it is at the Muehlebach Hotel.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
Description: View of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks posed at the Plantation Grille, Muehlebach Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri. Identified in Edmiston's book, standing: Carleton Coon and Joe Sanders, seated from left Kohlman, Nordberg, Estep, Williams, McLean, and J. Thiell.
Date: 1923~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Deaths: Mrs. Thelma Todd Goza
Description: Photo and obituary for "Mrs. Toni Todd Goza [or Toni Todd], 32, former orchestra singer and motion picture actress," appearing in such movies as "Lost Horizon" and "Philo Vance's Secret Mission" as Toni Todd. Born as Thelma Witten in Hale, Missouri about 1919 and raised in Kansas City, graduating from Manual High School, and performing with "Bobby Pope's orchestra at the Terrace grill of the Hotel Muehlebach in 1939" and later "at the Cabana and Tropics rooms of the Hotel Phillips."
Date: 1952-05-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Biography of Edward Harry Kelly (1879-1955), Composer, Band and Orchestra Leader
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: SC1-1 Joe Sanders Collection Finding Aid
Description: Joe Sanders was born in Thayer, Kansas, and spent the majority of his childhood in the Kansas City area. He started his musical performances as a boy soprano in local church choirs and graduated from Westport High School. After World War I he organized an orchestra with Carleton Coon called the Nighthawks which played on the local radio and traveled the country. After Mr. Coon's untimely death in 1932, Sanders continued as a composer, piano player, singer, and conductor of his own band. Sanders died in 1965. This collection of material, such as scrapbooks, travelogues, photos, sheet music, etc., provides information and detail about Sanders, covering his formative musical years and later successful band career. It also contains information on the relationship between Carleton Coon and Joe Sanders and the formation and travels of their band in the 1920s.
Date: 1908~/1950~
Object Type: Finding Aid

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