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

Myra Taylor wearing a fur lined cap and eyeglasses hanging from a necklace around her neck smiles with her hand around the shoulder of a seated Lionel Hampton. Lionel's mouth is open and he's looking...

Date Published

2000-01-13

Ramonda Doakes, executive director of the Mutual Musicians Foundation, stands in front of a wood-paneled wall of photographs of musicians holding a plastic cup and smiling at the photographer in the...

Date Published

1999-11-01

A crowd sits and stands in front of Mutual Musicians Foundation during the Landmark Ceremony: included in the crowd are Betty Crow, standing 2nd from left, Myra Taylor and Yvonne Wilson seated and...

Date Published

2003-10-25

UMKC University Libraries Digital Collections

Myra Taylor, Ben Kynard and Lionel Hampton at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

Ramonda Doakes and Donald Byrd at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

Women musicians in front of Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Digital Projects

LaBudde Special Collections

Marr Sound Archives

University Archives