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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

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

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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

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Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012
Taylor, Myra

Types (Collection)

photographs (2)

Genres (Collection)

Black & white photographs (2)
Gelatin silver prints (2)
Group portraits (2)

Time Periods (Collection)

1991-2000 (2)

Subjects (Collection)

African American jazz musicians (2)
African American men (2)
African American women (2)
Jazz musicians (2)
Jazz singers (2)
Saxophonists (2)
Guitarists (1)
Musicians--Labor unions (1)
Trombonists (1)
Trumpet players (1)
Vibraphonists (1)

Subjects, Geographic (Collection)

Kansas City (Mo.) (2)
18th and Vine District (1)

Subjects, People (Collection)

Hampton, Lionel (1)
Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (1)
Nash, Monny (1)
Powell, Godfrey (1)
(-) Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (2)
(-) Taylor, Myra (2)

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Evie Quarles Collection

Group playing at 18th and Vine

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

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