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Photographer: R. C.
Taken: December 3, 2007
Caption: Hotel Rochester
Additional Description: The Hotel Rochester, next door to the Musicians Association Building, was the only hotel in Kansas City, Missouri in the 1930s and 1940s where visiting African American could stay. Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing, and many other of the great jazz artists of the time would have stayed there.
Submitted: March 28, 2008, by Ronald Claiborne of College Station, Texas.
Database Locator Identification Number: p20069
File Size: 1.353 Megabytes

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