Grand Emporium Collection

Accordionist Bon Ton St. Mary sits on the top rung of a wooden fence holding an accordion and smiling directly at the photographer. A wooden building is behind him. Printed in the margin below the...

The Bonedaddies, a world beat band comprised of two African American men and five white men, sit at a table as a loose reenactment of the Last Supper but with a guitar, cereal, a shoe, an apple, and...

Brave Combo, a polka, rock, and world beat band comprised of one Hispanic American man, and four white men, sit and stand around a floral upholstered love seat looking serious. Printed in the margin...

Brave Combo, a polka, rock, and world beat band of Bubba Hernandez, Alan Emert, Danny O'Brien, Carl Finch, and Jeffery Barnes, stand in front of a board wall of chipped paint holding their instruments...

Brazos Valley Boys, a country music band, has separate head-shot photographs of five white men wearing blue shirts, black neck scarves, and white cowboy hats around the printed name of BVB Brazos...

Buckwheat Zydeco, zydeco accordion player and singer, plays an accordion and sings into a microphone on a stage with five other African American zydeco instrumentalists or an electric bass guitar, a...

Accordionist Buckwheat Zydeco grins as he plays the accordion in front of a gas pump at a rural gas station. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Buckwheat Zydeco. Concerted Efforts, Inc....

Accordionist Buckwheat Zydeco sits in a diner with the accordion on the table beside him. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Concerted Efforts, Inc. [logo], P.O. Box 99 ., Newtonville, MA...

Buddy Guy, blues guitarist and singer, stands at the microphone on stage at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri and looks down and to the left. A sign at the back of the stage above their...

Rock drummer Buddy Miles holds an electric guitar and points at the camera. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Buddy Miles. Tour Direction: The Robert Fitzpatrick Organization, (714) 840...

Jamaican reggae vocalist Burning Spear is in the center of a sculpted circle in front of a brick wall and an apartment building with four of his band members. The Burning Brass, a wind trio, are in...

Jamaican reggae singer Burning Spear looks down with his mouth open to sing in a head-shot photograph. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Burning Spear. Booking by Fast Lane Productions...

"Exotic" menu board for the Burns' Linwood Tavern, 1220 Linwood, Kansas City, Missouri. The menu reads, "EXOTIC. Fried Worms. Grasshoppers. Zaza Insects. Silk Worms. Musk Rat. Rooster Combs...

The front door of Burns' Linwood Tavern at 1220 Linwood, Kansas City, Missouri, advertises it's menu by painting the choices on the glass of the door, "Fried WORMS, GRASSHOPPERS, Broiled SPARROWS...

The storefront window of Burns' Linwood Tavern at 1220 Linwood in Kansas City, Missouri. Below an unlit Michelob neon sign, painted on the window in white, "IT CAN BE DONE! 72oz STEAK." Painted on the...

Butch Mudbone, a Native American male blues guitarist, singer, and harmonica player, smiles as he raises the neck of an electric guitar straight up as he plays. A bass player is behind him.

Butch Mudbone, a Native American male blues guitarist, singer, and harmonica player, closes his eyes and leans his ear to the right over the neck of an electric guitar he is playing, as he stands...

Butch Mudbone, a Native American male blues guitarist, singer, and harmonica player, opens his mouth wide as he sings and plays a resonator guitar outdoors. A palm tree is partially out of the picture...

Butch Mudbone, a Native American male blues guitarist, singer, and harmonica player, looks and smiles to the right as he plays an electric guitar. He stands in front of a cowboy and desert backdrop.

Butch Mudbone, a Native American male blues guitarist, singer, and harmonica player, opens his mouth wide to sing into a microphone as he holds an electric guitar under his right arm.

Butch Mudbone, a Native American male blues guitarist, singer, and harmonica player, leans back a bit as he lifts his hand from the strings of a resonator guitar and looks at his left hand holding the...

Three of The Buzz band members, comprised of four white men, stand behind the fourth member seated on a chair that is turned backwards. All look seriously at the photographer. Printed in the margin...

The Buzz, a band comprised of four white men, stands on the street and sidewalk beside a building. One member leans back on the hood of a vintage car. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "the...

Zydeco accordionist C.J. Chenier leans his wrists on a Baldoni accordion and looks slyly at the photographer. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Concerted Efforts, Inc. [logo], P.O. Box 99...

Captain & the Red Hot Flames is a band from Colorado comprised of four white men and one African American man. Four band members stand and smile as they bend slightly forward and look at the camera...