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Evie Quarles Collection

Evie Quarles Collection

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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

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Group playing at 18th and Vine

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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

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Nash, Monny

Types (Collection)

photographs (1)

Genres (Collection)

Black & white photographs (1)
Gelatin silver prints (1)
Group portraits (1)

Time Periods (Collection)

1991-2000 (1)

Subjects (Collection)

African American jazz musicians (1)
African American men (1)
African American women (1)
Guitarists (1)
Jazz musicians (1)
Jazz singers (1)
Saxophonists (1)
Trombonists (1)
Trumpet players (1)

Subjects, Geographic (Collection)

18th and Vine District (1)
Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People (Collection)

Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (1)
Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (1)
Powell, Godfrey (1)
Taylor, Myra (1)
(-) Nash, Monny (1)

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