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

Alberta Adams sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand while Johnnie Bassett stands next to her, wearing a flat cap, smiling, and playing a guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C...

Date Published

1999-05-28

Johnnie Bassett, wearing a cap, looks forward and sings into a microphone as he plays a guitar at the Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS. He wear a guitar...

Date Published

2007-10-20

Johnnie Bassett, wearing an flat cap, looks to his left as he fastens a capo to the neck of a guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards.

Date Published

1999-05-28

Digital Collections

Alberta Adams and Johnnie Bassett at the W.C. Handy Awards

Johnnie Bassett at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS

Johnnie Bassett at the W.C. Handy Awards

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Digital Projects

LaBudde Special Collections

Marr Sound Archives

University Archives