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; Jackson and Dawayne Gilley sit inside a stretch limousine with the back door opened at the Myra Taylor Park Gate Dedication, 18th & Woodland. Myra gazes to her right out of the car as...

Date Published

2001-06-29

Myra Taylor, looks down at the table where she's sitting, covers her eyes and laughs as Dawayne Gilley and Connie Humiston stand behind her and hold up a poster. On the poster Myra is illustrated as...

Date Published

2001-06-29

Dawayne Gilley stands and seriously hands keys to Jim O'Neal behind the head of a seated and laughing Myra Taylor. Myra is holding two Living Blues Magazine award plaques which state, "Living Blues...

Date Published

2002-07-21

UMKC University Libraries Digital Collections

Myra Taylor at the dedication of a park gate in her name

Myra Taylor laughing at the dedication of a park gate in her name

Myra Taylor wins the best female blues artist from Living Blues Magazine

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Digital Projects

LaBudde Special Collections

Marr Sound Archives

University Archives