Grand Emporium Collection

Bel Airs, a blues-rock band from Columbia, Missouri comprised of three white men, perform on the stage of the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri with Mark Wenner, harmonica player and singer...

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...

"Exotic" menu board for the Burns' Linwood Tavern, 1220 Linwood, Kansas City, Missouri. The menu reads, "EXOTIC. Fried Worms. Grasshoppers. Zaza Insects. Silk Worms. Musk Rat. Rooster Combs...

The front door of Burns' Linwood Tavern at 1220 Linwood, Kansas City, Missouri, advertises it's menu by painting the choices on the glass of the door, "Fried WORMS, GRASSHOPPERS, Broiled SPARROWS...

The storefront window of Burns' Linwood Tavern at 1220 Linwood in Kansas City, Missouri. Below an unlit Michelob neon sign, painted on the window in white, "IT CAN BE DONE! 72oz STEAK." Painted on the...

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 "Cleanhead" Vinson, jazz saxophone player, sits on a barstool while performing, and Jim Ericson, drummer, peeks out over his drum set while performing on Thanksgiving night at the Grand Emporium...

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 and Roger Naber, partners in ownership of the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri, holding a "Promotion of the Year" award between them from the Blues Foundation for their work...

George Myers and Roger Naber, partners in ownership of the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri, holding a "Promotion of the Year" award between them from the Blues Foundation for their work...

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...

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...

George Myers, part bar owner, is flanked by two unidentified white women at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri for the Tiny Tim show.

George Myers, bar owner, holding a handmade "D.U.I. Checkpoint Ahead" sign, leans against the wall in the hall of the Board of Trade Building in Kansas City, Missouri.

George Myers, bar owner, holding a handmade "D.U.I. Checkpoint Ahead" sign in the hall of the Board of Trade Building in Kansas City, Missouri.

George Myers, bar owner, holding a handmade "D.U.I. Checkpoint Ahead" sign outdoors in the dark in Kansas City, Missouri. Car wheels are visible in the bottom left-hand corner of the photograph.