Priscilla Bowman Collection

Portrait of Ethel Mills, Priscilla Bowman's mother.

Eugene "Jeep" Griddine playing guitar; Club Trocadero; Kansas City, Missouri.

Gayle Cade (left), Priscilla Bowman, and Marcia Bowman (right) posed for family photo.

Performance with Jay McShann on piano, Clarence "Big" Miller on bass, Eugene "Jeep" Griddine on guitar, and an unidentified African American man on drums; possibly at Johnny Baker's, 55th and Troost...

Publicity photo of Joan Shaw (also known as Salena Jones) by Gale Agency, Inc.; address listed as 48 West 48th Street, New York 19, NY.

Priscilla Bowman outdoors against red wall.

Priscilla Bowman and an unidentified African American man at Mel's Hideaway in Chicago, Illinois.

Priscilla Bowman with her daughter Marcia standing in front of a house.

Priscilla Bowman (right) sitting with her daughter Marcia Bowman.

Priscilla Bowman (right) with her daughter Marcia Bowman at a table at "Walter's Lounge."

Priscilla Bowman with her father Reverend Solomon Mills on Easter Sunday, 1976.

Priscilla Bowman performing at Spirit Festival in Kansas City, Missouri.

Priscilla Bowman sitting at the piano; at 3212 N. 36th, Kansas City, Kan.

Priscilla Bowman posing in front of an oversized image of herself as a young woman.

Priscilla Bowman in sequined, sleeveless dress with lamp and photos in background.

Priscilla Bowman in sequined dress. Facing the camera and smiling.

Publicity photo of Priscilla Bowman by Abner Records; address listed for label is 2129 South Michigan; Chicago 16, Illinois.

Priscilla Bowman singing into a microphone she's holding at a venue called (likely) the Music Box.

Priscilla Bowman singing with the Curtyse Foster Band: "Bumps" Love (piano), Foster (sax), Elmer Price (trumpet), Bill Nolan (drums); unidentified Kansas City venue.

Priscilla Bowman (right) sitting with her daughter Marcia Bowman.

Reverend Solomon Mills and Ethel Mills on Easter Sunday, 1976.

Portrait of Reverend Solomon Mills, Priscilla Bowman's father.

Samuel "Baby" Lovett, Tate, Ice; Benny's Bar; Kansas City, Missouri

Posed photo of tap dancer and magician "Mo-La" (Alonzo F. Jordan).

Unidentified African American man playing piano; Club Trocadero; Kansas City, Missouri.