Grand Emporium Collection

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.

Bar owner George Myers holding a handmade "D.U.I. Checkpoint Ahead" sign, leans against the wall possibly in a parking garage and gives a smile in Kansas City, Missouri. The back window of a vehicle...

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. A person is walking the other way down the hall behind...

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, smiles while holding a handmade "D.U.I. Checkpoint Ahead" sign outdoors by a rock wall and a parking lot in Kansas City, Missouri. A car wheel is visible in the bottom left...

Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, a funk, blues, and rhythm and blues vocal group of four African American men, who stand and sing at microphones at the edge of the stage at the Grand Emporium in...

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...

Little Hatch, an African American blues harmonica player and singer, smiles and claps behind Roger Naber, the owner who is speaking into the microphone at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri...

Lonesome Hounddogs, a blues-rock band from Lawrence, Kansas, perform on stage at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri wearing blue or red cloth cases from head to toe with their cowboy hats...

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...

Magia Latina Show Band, a salsa, merengue, cumbia, dance band of four Puerto Rican men and one Puerto Rican woman in a photocopy of two photographs side by side. The left-hand photograph has Maria...

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...

Montage of six images of Little Hatch, blues harmonica player and singer, and one photograph of the House Rockers, a blues band comprised of three white men, performing with Little hatch at the Grand...

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...

Roger Naber and George Myers, 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...

Roger Naber and George Myers, 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...

An unidentified white woman holds a "Promotion of the Year" award for Roger Naber and George Myers work organizing the 1994 Ultimate Rhythm and Blues Cruise. Roger Naber and George Myers, partners in...

An unidentified white woman holds a "Promotion of the ear" award for Roger Naber and George Myers work organizing the 1994 Ultimate Rhythm and Blues Cruise. Roger Naber and George Myers, partners in...

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...