Grand Emporium Collection

Tim Albert, multi-instrumentalist and singer of the Uncle Albert Band, a blues band from St. Louis, Missouri, and likely Lisa Campbell, keyboardist and singer, laugh together. Lisa is bent over...

An unidentified group of three grinning white men and one smiling white woman stand outside a clapboard building with peeling paint and graffiti painted on it.

An unidentified group play their instruments in an empty room with a tongue-in-groove wooden floor. Two white men stand in the back facing each other and leaning back to play a saxophone on the left...

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 white woman in a beige dress smiles at the camera as she stands next George Myers, part owner of the Grand Emporium, wearing a blue toga and making a funny face as he holds a drink in...

An unidentified white woman who is seated in foreground, and two unidentified white men, who are standing in background are at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri for the Tiny Tim Show.

An unidentified white woman sits at the bar and smiles at the camera and two unidentified white men speak together behind her as they attend the Tiny Tim show at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City...

An unidentified white woman smiles as she stands in front of a neon work of art of a guitar player at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. She wears a Grand Emporium t-shirt.

An unidentified white woman stands below the Grand Emporium sign at the back of the stage at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. She wears a Grand Emporium t-shirt.

Veg-Ex, a band of three white men and one white woman, stand outside in a parking lot. Printed on a label attached below the photograph, "VEG-EX."

Vertu a jazz fusion band comprised of one white woman, one African American woman, two African American men, and one white man, wear dark formal clothing as they sit on or stand by a white staircase...

Vertu, a jazz fusion band comprised of one white woman, two African American men, one white man, and one African American woman, in separate portrait photographs in a collage. The name of each band...

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.

The Welterweights, a rock band of three white men and one white woman, laugh as they stand under a tree and by a privacy fence. One man smokes. Another man holds a guitar case.

Wendy Neutzler leans her head into the cheek of an unidentified African American man who leans his cheek towards the side of her head at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri as Little Charlie...

West Side Wayne and The Boulevard Band, a blues band comprised of five white men and two white women, lean against a height board used in criminal line-ups. Printed in the margin below the photograph...

The Wild Seeds, a blues-rock band comprised of four white men and one white woman, crowd together on a staircase to a screened-in porch and laugh. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Wild...

The Wilders, a roots band from Kansas City, Missouri of three white men and one white woman, who stand together outdoors in front of trees and holds their instruments. The men wear light-colored...

Yo, a garage rock, alternative rock band comprised of two white men and one white woman, sit on a tree branch and laugh as all slant to the left to match the tree which has grown slanted to the left...

Zoe, keyboard player and singer of the band, Zoe and the MoFoes, a local Kansas City band, winks her right eye and smiles at the camera in a close-up, head-shot photograph. She wears a black feather...

Zoe, keyboard player and vocalist for the band, Zoe and the MoFoes, a local Kansas City band, looks back over her left shoulder and smiles at the camera in a close-up head-shot photograph. Printed in...