Title: Carleton Coon and Other Members of the Nighthawks

Description: Exterior view, on a road in Oklahoma and identified from left to right as Carleton Coon, Carl Nordberg, Pop Estep, and Harry Williams. The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks on their way to Oklahoma City to perform. The group had just been through flood conditions on the way. Sanders in his scrapbook captions the photo: "Just out of Tulsa with the first firm ground which our feet had touched since Joplin."

Date: June 1923

Item Type: Photograph, b/w, 4 in. x 5 in.

Collection: Fred Edmiston Papers
See finding aid: http://localhistory.kclibrary.org/u?/Local,37037

Notes: This photograph appears on page 109 of Edmiston's book "The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks." Also found in SC1, Joe Sanders Scrapbook A, p. 1 (photocopies) with commentary by Sanders.

Location: SC1-3, Box 1, Folder 22, #100

Subject: Automobile travel;

Local Subject: Coon, Carleton; Nordberg, Carl; Estep, Pop;Williams, Harry; Coon-Sanders Band; Nighthawks;

Digital Format: jpeg

Barcode: 10017917

Repository: Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri

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