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 is seated in a wheelchair and singing into a microphone with her eyes closed. Sonny Kenner is standing to her left and also singing into a microphone. Ben Kynard and an unidentified...

Date Published

2000-09-16

Blues and jazz musicians Sonny Kenner, Luqman Hamza, Richard Townsend, Rusty Tucker, Everette DeVan, Roy Searcy, King Alex, Lawrence Wright, and Linda Shell gather together at noon on the steps of the...

Date Published

1999-09-18

Digital Collections

Group playing at 18th and Vine

Sonny Kenner, Luqman Hamza, Rusty Tucker, Everette DeVan, Roy Searcy, King Alex, Lawrence Wright, Linda Shell and others at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Digital Projects

LaBudde Special Collections

Marr Sound Archives

University Archives