Please join us for the opening reception Through the Lens: Photographs of Raymond Corey exhibition July 10 from 4 - 6 p.m. at the Kansas City Research Center, 800 East 51st Street, Miller Nichols Library (Room 306), University of Missouri-Kansas City. Corey worked as a news photographer for the Coffeyville (KS) Journal, the Kansas City Kansan, and the Kansas City Star. After his death, the Corey family donated over 50,000 images to the SHSMO Kansas City Research Center; approximately 8,000 of the images have been digitized and now online at digital.shsmo.org. The Raymond E. Corey Photographs collection covers the years from 1965 to 1980. The exhibition features a selection of his photographs taken during the 1960s and 1970s. The large body of Corey’s work focuses on subject of popular and historical interest such as the American Royal, the Kansas City Chiefs, Trans World Airlines, social movements, and everyday rural and city life and events in the Kansas City region. The exhibition will be open to the public during regular visitor hours at the Kansas City Research Center through December 19, 2025.
SHSMO appreciates the generous support of Lee and Don Wadsworth for the digitization and exhibition of the Corey photographs.