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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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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Blanche Williams and Mike Fitzgerald at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Festival

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, wearing a fedora and holding a violin and bow in his left hand, waves as Mike Fitzgerald hands him the Jazz Ambassador plaque at the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Fest. Blanche...

Date Published

2000-07-21

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Fitzgerald, Michael D.

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)
Blues festivals (1)
Fiddlers (1)
Jazz festivals (1)
Jazz musicians (1)
Men, White (1)
Music--Awards (1)
Music festivals (1)
Musicians' spouses (1)
Plaques, plaquettes (1)
Violinists (1)

Subjects, Geographic (Collection)

Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People (Collection)

Williams, Blanche Fouse (1)
Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)
(-) Fitzgerald, Michael D. (1)

Events (Collection)

Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2000) (1)

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