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Photos in UMKC Digital Special Collections

Consists of over 2000 exposures contained in 16 Photo Boxes. Photo Box 1 houses pages from a photo album entitled Inauguration Album, Republic of Liberia, January 1952, consisting of 82 contact sheets, comprising 926 images. Photo Boxes 2 through 15 contain nearly 700 individual prints documenting the following subject matter in the lives of Leon and Orchid Jordan: Liberia, European travel, professional and personal activities in Kansas City and the region, as well as other miscellaneous images. Individual prints are grouped roughly by subject matter. Photo Box 16 contains 436 negatives of various formats. Oversized images from this series are housed in manuscript box 5, folder 3. Addendum 1 material consists of a portrait shot of Clifford Warren, Jordan's detective partner at the Kansas City Police Department. Addendum 3 material consists of an exterior shot of the Green Duck Tavern, the business owned by Jordan and outside of which he was murdered in 1970. Addendum 4 material consists of 13 additional images of the Jordans and colleagues in various candid shots, 1950s-1980s. Addendum 7 material consists of a 1925 shot of the Inter City Dames, a women's auxiliary group with which Jordan family members were involved.