Grand Emporium Collection

Blues guitarist and vocalist Bernard Allison grinning and playing guitar in the street outside the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. He wears a double-breasted suit and a dark cowboy hat with...

A promotional sheet of four portrait photographs of African American blues musicians. From the top left, Bobby "Blue" Bland; top right, Denise LaSalle; bottom right, Buddy Guy; and bottom left, Robert...

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...

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...

Cate Brothers [band], twins Earl and Ernie, play rock and roll on the Grand Emporium stage in Kansas City, Missouri. Ernie sings into a microphone and plays the keyboards, a bass player, possibly Ron...

The Cate Brothers, twins Earl and Ernie, play on the Grand Emporium stage in Kansas City, Missouri. An electric bass guitar player, possibly Ron Eoff, and Earl Cate, who plays an electric guitar...

Darrell Nulisch, blues harmonica player and singer, stands center stage at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri and lifts his left hand toward the ceiling and holds a microphone to his mouth...

Dynatones (Acapella), a blues vocal group comprised of five white men, perform on stage at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. A sign at the back of the stage above their heads reads, "Grand...

Eddie Shaw, Chicago blues saxophone player and singer, performs on the Grand Emporium stage in Kansas City, Missouri with two unidentified African American men; one playing electric guitar and one...

Blues guitar player and vocalist Fenton Robinson stands center stage in front of the drum set as he and a band of three African American men play on the stage at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City...

Fernest Arceneaux and the Thunders, a zydeco, Cajun music band of five African American men and one white man, perform on the stage of the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. Fernest plays an...

Frankie Lee, a blues, R&B, and soul singer, stands down on the dance floor among the audience, with his mouth wide open as he sings into a microphone he is holding while performing at the Grand...

George Myers, part owner of the Grand Emporium, leans his hand on the back of a chair as he looks down at a seated Tiny Tim from his right side at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. An...

Jack Wright and Dwight Frizzell and Tom Aber, alternative instrument musicians, perform on stage at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. A sign at the back of the stage above their heads reads...

A collage of three photographs capturing scenes from the 1993 Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival held on the Liberty Memorial north lawn in front of Union Station. The top left photograph is a...

KC Brass & Electric, a blues band comprised of four white men, performing at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. The Grand Emporium sign hangs above their heads at the back of the stage. To...

Blues guitarist and vocalist Lonnie Brooks and blues and rock vocalist and guitarist Lonnie Mack perform on the stage of the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. A keyboardists sits between them...

Blues guitarist and vocalist Luther Guitar Jr. Johnson closes his eyes as he plays a guitar on stage with an unidentified band of four white men at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. A sign...

Renee and Rick, bartenders and cocktail servers at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri, turn their heads to smile at the camera as they stand behind the bar exchanging money and drinks for the...

The Ruby Crush, a band comprised of three white men and one white woman, stand among the people in the George Segal bronze sculpture called "Rush Hour" at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas...

Son Seals Blues Band is a blues band performing at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. Blues guitarist and vocalist Son Seals stands in the spotlight. Red Groetzinger plays a tenor saxophone...

Tap dancer Speedy Huggins smiles as he stands next to Tiny Tim as they look at the camera with smiles at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. The Grand Emporium sign is behind Tiny Tim on the...

Tiny Tim gives a big smile as wears a white tuxedo jacket with staffs of music printed on the material in black in a close-up, head-shot photograph in the green room of the Grand Emporium in Kansas...

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

An unidentified white male employee faces a wall filled with publicity posters and bends his right arm so his fist rests on his forehead. With his left hand, he pulls down the skin on the bottom of...