Grand Emporium Collection

Albert Collins, blues guitarist, leans to the left, closes his eyes, and grimaces as he holds his guitar with one hand on the neck and spreads his other arm out wide. He wears a leather jacket with...

In the photograph on the left blues guitarist and vocalist Albert King grins as he crosses his arms over his chest and gives a thumbs up from each hand. He wears a business suit, a fedora hat, and...

Artie White, blues singer, places the thumb of his left hand into his skin behind his chin as he smiles at the camera in a close-up, head-shot negative photograph. He wears a bowtie and a diamond ring...

A box with stickers on it for Mojo Nixon's album Otis. Mojo Nixon is a white male psychobilly musician.

George Myers, part bar owner, is flanked by two unidentified, smiling, white women whom he puts his arms around and looks slyly up at the camera with a smile at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City...

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...

Blues harmonica player Lazy Lester. He leans his right elbow on a railing and holds a harmonica in his right hand. He support his head with his left hand as he smiles at the camera. He wears a...

Blues guitarist Lonnie Mack looks directly at the camera from underneath the brim of a fedora hat with a contrasting wide hatband as he plays a Gibson Flying V electric guitar and wears an argyle...

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

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...

A split photograph of the band Mighty Flyers on the left and Otis Rush on the right. The Mighty Flyers, a blues band comprised of one white woman sitting on a traveling case hugging an animal print...

Tiny Tim, singer and ukulele player, only visible from his chest down, stands at the edge of the stage behind a microphone playing an ukulele. Double bassist Bryan Hicks is partially obscured by Tiny...

Tiny Tim, singer and ukulele player, kneels behind the microphone stand and holds the microphone in his left hand as he performs at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. Bryan Hicks is playing...

Tiny Tim, singer and ukulele player, kneels on the stage and lifts his left arm high above his head as he mournfully sings into the microphone as he performs at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City...

Tiny Tim, singer and ukulele player, lies on stage and lifts his legs in the air as he sings into a microphone he holds in his left and holds the microphone stand in his right hand. An ukulele lays on...

Tiny Tim, singer and ukulele player, is mostly out of the photograph but his feet, legs, and tails of his tuxedo jacket are visible behind a vase of tulips that sit on the stage by his feet while he...

Tiny Tim, singer and ukulele player, closes his eyes and smiles as he spreads his arms wide while he's on stage holding an ukulele by the neck with his right hand at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City...

Tiny Tim, singer and ukulele player, smiles to his left while he's on stage holding an ukulele by the neck with his right hand at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. A double bass is behind...

Tiny Tim, singer and ukulele player, balls his hands into fists, his right fist around the neck of an ukulele, and closes his eyes as he stands on stage singing into a microphone while performing at...

Tiny Tim, singer and ukulele player, closes his eyes as he stands on stage singing into a microphone and playing an ukulele at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. He wears a white, long...

Tiny Tim, singer and ukulele player, closes his eyes and lift his face up as he stands on stage singing into a microphone and playing an ukulele at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. He...

Tiny Tim, singer and ukulele player, raises his left hand toward the ceiling while singing into a microphone while performing at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. A strand of hair crosses...

Tiny Tim, singer and ukulele player, lifts the microphone above his head with his left hand as he looks down and sings as he performs at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. He allows his...

Tiny Tim, singer and ukulele player, closes his eyes and lifts his right fingers to his lips as he stands at a microphone and holds an ukulele by the neck with his left hand at the Grand Emporium in...