Grand Emporium Collection

Reggae vocalist Rocker T. faces left in a close-up, head-shot photograph. He wears a turban with Jamaican flag colors in the back twist, sunglasses, and a camouflage t-shirt. White clouds in a clear...

Silvatones, an Oklahoma funk, blues, and soul band comprised of three white men, crouch beside a wooden fence of horizontal planks. The band member on the left (Mike Hosty) wears a 1989 Rolling Stones...

Skunk River Bandits, a rock band comprised of four white men, stand on a porch of a house drinking beer while one band member plays an acoustic guitar. There is a grill and a seated Dalmatian dog on...

Smokey Joe Kasey, guitarist, holds a blue electric guitar with Austin, Texas, and Smokey in silver glitter applied to the body of the guitar. He wears a gold hoop earring and a gold treble clef lapel...

Solefish is a local Kansas City alternative rock band comprised of four white men. Two sit in the open doors on the passenger side of a van; one in the front passenger seat, one in the open sliding...

Sound Transmission, a band comprised of four white men, three of whom sit on hay bales outside a corrugated barn, one band member looking down. The fourth band member has his back to the camera and is...

Blues guitarist Stanley Milton of Stanley Milton's Mean Streak, stands on stage with his eyes shut tight as he plays an electric guitar and stands behind a microphone. A red light is coming from...

A photocopy of a pastel drawing of Studebaker John, Chicago blues guitarist and harmonica player, closing his eyes as he plays an electric guitar. He wears a fedora hat and a black vest over a blue...

Sugar Creek, an Independence, Missouri band comprised of one white woman and three white men, in a collection of four portrait photographs of each band member. The top left hand photograph is Yancy...

Tiny Tim holds his ukulele, and smiles at the camera as he is flanked by Roger Naber (left), and George Myers (right), owners of the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri, with several other white...

Double bass player, Tod Wulfmeyer, stands by a body of water with hills on the other shore. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Tod Wulfmeyer."

Tod Wulfmeyer, a member 8 1/2 Souvenirs, gets a tattoo on the back of his arm, The white male tattoo artist sits behind him as he works.

An unidentified group of four men who look at the camera in a relaxed manner. Three wear sport jackets. The one on the left wears a dark fedora hat and a vest over a long-sleeved shirt with musical...

An unidentified group of four black men sit together and smile at the camera. The man farthest to the left wears a ball cap over a hooded jacket.

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 group of four white men sit in a living room. Two are on a love seat couch and two are in front of them on bean-bag chairs. A poster for the movie, "2001 a space odyssey" is on the...

Xplicit is a rock band (likely) comprised of five white men, possibly from Missouri. The band members stand in front of a department store display window with a mannequin in it and look at the camera...

Xplicit is rock band (likely) comprised of five white men, possibly from Missouri. Four of the band members sit or crouch and one stands, wearing a t-shirt that says, "Blow Me," in front of a graffiti...

Yobosó, a Latin jazz band comprised of three white men and one African American man, stand together grinning and playing their instruments: conga drum, double bass, keyboard, and snare drums. They all...

Zapp, a funk band comprised of one African American woman and seven African American men, stand in a group in their performance costumes and smile at the camera. Printed on the lower right-hand corner...

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...