Grand Emporium Collection

Baaba Maal, a Senegalese singer, guitar player, and percussionist, who sings mostly in the language of Pulaar, looks to his left and holds eyeglasses in his hands as he stands by the corner of a mud...

Baaba Maal, a Senegalese singer, guitar player, and percussionist, who sings mostly in the language of Pulaar, bends over looking down while playing a percussion instrument. Other members of the band...

Baaba Maal, a Senegalese singer, guitar player, and percussionist, who sings mostly in the language of Pulaar, raises his hands toward the camera with the fingers spread wide as he smile. He wears a...

Baaba Maal, a Senegalese singer, guitar player, and percussionist, who sings mostly in the language of Pulaar, laughs as he hugs his left shoulder. He wears a blue sweater.

Badwater, a country band comprised of three Cherokee men and one white man, in a montage photograph of each member playing their instruments. Printed across the top of the montage, "Badwater," in a...

Dr. Sir Warrior, a Nigerian singer, stands in front of the fence in front of the White House in Washington D.C. He is wearing traditional clothing.

El Vez, an Mexican American Elvis Presley impersonator, stands on stage singing into a microphone wearing a version of the 1970s blue and white jumpsuit with fringe. There are female backup singers on...

Four Stars of Zaire, a band comprised of four men from Zaire, who stand together indoors in front of a doorway and smile at the camera.

The Mahotella Queens are three black South African female mbaqanga musicians in traditional clothing, dance and sing on the Grand Emporium stage performing for an audience whose backs of their heads...

The Mahotella Queens are three black South African female mbaqanga musicians in traditional clothing, dance on the Grand Emporium stage performing for an audience whose backs of their heads are in the...

Project Iroko, a Cuban band comprised of three women and six men, who stand outside in front of a fence in stage costumes and holding percussion instruments. Printed in the margin below the photograph...

Soukous Stars, a soukous band of five men, stand each with one foot on a white foot stool and their other hand in a pocket of their mostly leather jackets and all smile at the camera. Each wears a hat...

An unidentified group of six black men in traditional clothing gather together for a photograph. Four stand arm-in-arm grinning at the camera. One man crouches in front and grins at the camera. One...

An unidentified group comprised of two white men and two other men (race uncertain), stand together under a bridge support all wearing clothing or hats of the color blue in a close-up, head-shot...

An unidentified group of seven black men sit on the beach in Montego Bay, Jamaica, as a white man and two black men stand talking to them during the Ultimate Rhythm and Blues Cruise I or II. Other...

Only white women's and white men's bottoms and legs are visible under the grass roof of a bar on a beach. Three black men sit on chairs beside the bar during the Ultimate Rhythm and Blues Cruise I or...

An unidentified black male guitarist closes his eyes and tilts his head back as he is performing in a close-up photograph (top). An unidentified black female singer wearing a red dress and a wide...

An unidentified East Asian man stands in the snow in front of a building in the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. Other tourists are visible on the right side of the photograph.

An unidentified East Asian man smiles at the camera in a close-up, head-shot photograph. He wears a blue suit jacket and blue shirt

An unidentified black man, wearing a Hawaiian print shirt and wooden bead necklaces, smiles up at the camera in a close-up, head-shot photograph.

Blues vocalist Valerie Wellington turns to look back and grin at her band while performing on the stage of the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. Her band is comprised of three African American...

The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, a glam and shock rock band comprised of three white men and one white woman. All are in costume. The woman's skin is painted completely white.