Grand Emporium Collection

Hans Theessink, a blues guitarist from the Netherlands, looks off to the left as he holds a resonator guitar and wears a cowboy hat, in a close-up photograph. Printed in the margin below the...

Blues harmonica player Harmonica Fats stands on stage with a lot of equipment behind him, playing the harmonica as he wears a three piece business suit, and blues guitarist Bernie Pearl stands on...

Blues harmonica player Harmonica Red wears glasses with a glare obscuring his eyes and holds up a Lee Oskar Harmonica with his left hand toward his right shoulder. He wears a tie and jacket. Printed...

Harmonica Shah Blues Band featuring Howard Glazer, is a blues band consisting of one African American harmonica player (Harmonica Shah) and three white men. The man to the left of Harmonica Shah...

Blues saxophonist Harold Singer stands on stage blowing into a saxophone with a keyboard player behind him. He wears a sports jacket and a loosened necktie. Printed in the margin below the photograph...

The Homewreckers, a blues band featuring Jim Suhler and Amy Robins, as they sit in front of a brick wall. Jim plays an electric guitar and smiles off to the right. Amy give a slant look to the left...

The Honeyboy Edwards Blues Band, a blues band comprised of one white man and three African American men, stand on stage in the dark, performing. Printed in the margin above the photograph, "The...

Howard and the White Boys, a blues band comprised of one African American man and three white men, sit at a table full of banded stacks of money, a vintage calculator, and cups of coffee. They are all...

Howard and the White Boys, a blues band comprised of one African American man and three white men, stand or sit at the bar of Chord on Blues wearing casual clothes and looking seriously at the camera...

Howard and the White Boys, a blues band comprised of one African American man and three white men, stand on a fire escape landing outside a brick building wearing business suits. Three of the four...

Howard and the White Boys, a blues band comprised of one African American man and three white men, stand on a fire escape landing outside a brick building wearing business suits. Three of the four...

Howard and the White Boys, a blues band comprised of one African American man and three white men, appear in a series of four photographs with Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi (The Blues Brothers), and...

Hubert Sumlin, blues guitarist, hugs the neck of a guitar to the side of his face and smiles in a close-up, head-shot photograph. He wears a light fedora hat, a pinstripe business suit jacket, and...

Hubert Sumlin, blues guitarist, hugs the neck of a guitar to the side of his face and smiles in a close-up, head-shot photograph. He wears a fedora hat, a pinstripe business suit jacket, and dotted...

Ike and Val Woods, blues musicians, stand in formal clothing and smile at the camera. Ike holds a light colored electric blues guitar and wears a dark suit. Val wears a dark cocktail dress. Printed in...

Indigenous, a blues band comprised of two Nakota men and one Nakota woman, in three separate portrait photographs. The left-hand photograph is Mato Nanji holding an electric guitar and looking...

Indigenous, a blues band comprised of three Nakota men and one Nakota woman, sit or lean against a boulder and look forward at the camera. Printed in the right margin, "photo by John Falls."

James Monque Digby, blues harmonica player for the J. Monque'D Blues Band, holds out his right hand as he plays a harmonica with his left. He wears a business suit. Handwritten in the upper left-hand...

James Monque Digby, blues harmonica player for the J. Monque'D Blues Band, smiles as he sings into a microphone on a stage with both hands held out. His right hand holding a harmonica. Behind him a...

James Monque Digby, blues harmonica player for the J. Monque'D Blues Band, grins as he stands in front of a stage behind three girls wearing J. Monque'D t-shirts. The girl in the center holds a...

Chicago blues guitarist and vocalist Jake La Botz sits on a barstool playing an electric guitar, wearing a suit jacket and rolled-up jeans. A guitar case sits on the floor by the barstool. Printed in...

Blues guitarist and vocalist James Armstrong sits leaning his head on his right hand which elbow rests on his right thigh. An electric guitar is standing upright with the neck resting on his left...

Blues guitarist and vocalist James Armstrong stands with his guitar on the floor in front of him and hold the neck with his hands folded over the headstock. He wears a dark suit jacket over t-shirt...

Blues guitarist and vocalist James Armstrong sits with an electric guitar. The head of the guitar sits on the chair between his legs as James hugs the body with his left arm. He looks seriously at the...

Blues vocalist James Buck places his left foot on a step and tips the microphone forward as he sings into it. He wears a red suit jacket of a black shirt. The background of the photograph is distorted...