Postcard featuring photo of the Ben-Ton Orchestra of Kansas City. Seven men are posing for a photo wearing black tuxedos and holding their instruments. From left to right: Nuna Lane holding a trumpet, Billy Russell holding a trumpet, Harold Durrell sitting at a drum set, Lawrence McLean holding a saxophone, W.S. Baum holding a saxophone, Glenn Durrell sitting in front of a piano, and Morris Bramsohn holding a violin while standing. Names and instruments are written at the bottom of the postcard. The orchestra name is printed on the bass drum.
No date; likely between 1921 and 1930
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Three copies of postcard.