Evie Quarles Collection

This collection consists of 866 images captured by Kansas City-based blues and jazz photographer, Evie Quarles. Quarles provided annotations for the photographs, identifying people, place, date, and event, rendering the collection highly discoverable to researchers.

Items in Collection: 866

Topics

Jazz, Big Band, & Music Industry

Kansas City History

Women’s History & Representation

Bobby Rush, sings into a microphone as Lo Lespes dances during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival, The audience is visible behind Lo.

Date Published

2005-06-24

Ida McBeth, wearing a bejeweled pillbox hat, throws her head back and laughs as she stands on stage and holds a certificate which states "Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas...

Date Published

2005-06-25

Ida McBeth looks coyly to her right as she sings into a microphone during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published

2005-06-25

UMKC University Libraries Digital Collections

Bobby Rush and Lo Lespes at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005

Ida McBeth at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005

Ida McBeth at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005

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Digital Projects

LaBudde Special Collections

Marr Sound Archives

University Archives