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. We are Quarles for providing 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 - 3 of 3 items

Sherman Holmes at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Image

Sherman Holmes of the band, The Holmes Brothers, eyes squeezed closed, wearing a Dashiki, plays an electric bass during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. There are perspiration drips visible on...

Date Published

2001-07-22

Sherman Holmes, Evie Quarles, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon at the Grand Emporium

Image

Sherman Holmes, Evie Quarles, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon stand side by side with their arms around each other smiling at the photographer in front of the stage at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, MO.

Date Published

2004-03-10

Sherman Holmes, Iris DeMent, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon at the Grand Emporium.

Image

Sherman Holmes, Iris DeMent, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand arm in arm, side by side, in front of the bar and smile at the photographer.

Date Published

2002-09-05

Clear selected
Holmes, Sherman

Types (Collection)

photographs (3)

Genres (Collection)

Black & white photographs (3)
Gelatin silver prints (3)
Group portraits (2)
Portrait photographs (1)

Time Periods (Collection)

2001-2010 (3)

Subjects (Collection)

African American men (3)
Bass guitarists (3)
Blues musicians (3)
Drummers (Musicians) (2)
Guitarists (2)
Singers (2)
Women, White (2)
Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
Blues festivals (1)
Jazz festivals (1)
Music festivals (1)
Photographers (1)

Subjects, Geographic (Collection)

Kansas City (Mo.) (3)

Subjects, People (Collection)

Holmes, Wendell, 1943-2015 (2)
DeMent, Iris (1)
Quarles, Evie (1)
(-) Holmes, Sherman (3)

Events (Collection)

Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2001) (1)