Digital Collections

Collections
About

Breadcrumb

Home
Evie Quarles Collection

Evie Quarles Collection

Image

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

1 - 2 of 2 items

Cotton Candy at Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Image

Cotton Candy, wearing a dramatic hat and looking directly at the photographer, sings into a microphone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

Date Published

1998-07-18

Cotton Candy at Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

Image

Cotton Candy Washington looks to her left to sing into the microphone as she plays a keyboard during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. An unidentified guitarist is visible behind her.

Date Published

2006-06-25

Clear selected
Music festivals
Washington, Cotton Candy, 1931-2007

Types (Collection)

photographs (2)

Genres (Collection)

Black & white photographs (2)
Gelatin silver prints (2)
Portrait photographs (2)

Time Periods (Collection)

1991-2000 (1)
2001-2010 (1)

Subjects (Collection)

African American jazz musicians (2)
African American women (2)
Blues festivals (2)
Jazz musicians (2)
Jazz singers (2)
Guitarists (1)
Jazz festivals (1)
Pianists (1)
(-) Music festivals (2)

Subjects, Geographic (Collection)

Kansas City (Kan.) (1)
Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People (Collection)

(-) Washington, Cotton Candy, 1931-2007 (2)

Events (Collection)

Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (1998) (1)
Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2006) (1)

Digital Collections

Evie Quarles Collection

Cotton Candy at Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Cotton Candy at Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

Types (Collection)

Genres (Collection)

Time Periods (Collection)

Subjects (Collection)

Subjects, Geographic (Collection)

Subjects, People (Collection)

Events (Collection)

Digital Projects

LaBudde Special Collections

Marr Sound Archives

University Archives