Grand Emporium Collection

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...

Blues vocalist Bobby Bland sits and holds a cigarette between the index finger and thumb of his right hand. The thick smoke rises up the left side of the photograph. He wears a suit and shirt with...

Bobby Parker, blues guitarist and singer, stands with his hands resting on the headstock of an electric guitar of which he rests the other end of the guitar on the floor between his legs. Printed in...

Bobby Rush, blues singer, looks to his right and smiles at the camera as he holds a harmonica in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Bobby Rush. For...

Blues singer Bobby Rush wearing a stage costume of a shiny suit, sits on a motorcycle and looks down to his right at the camera. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Bobby Rush. Philadelphia...

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...

Byther Smith, blues guitarist and singer, looks down at the camera with a gleam in his eye as he plays an electric guitar that is in motion. He wears a hat, a necktie, and a business suit. Printed in...

Carl Weathersby, blues guitarist and singer, smiles down at the camera as he lets his crossed hands rest of the body of a guitar that hangs from a guitar strap around his neck, in a close-up...

Carl Weathersby, blues guitarist and singer, closes his eyes, purses his lips, and turns his head to the left as he plays an electric guitar in a close-up photograph. Printed in the margin below the...

Blues drummer and vocalist Casey Jones bends his elbow to curl three fingers of his right hand on his right cheek with one finger pointed straight up as he looks seriously at the camera.. Printed in...

Blues drummer and vocalist Casey Jones sits backwards on a chair and crosses his forearms to rest them on the back of the chair. He turns his head to the left to smile at the camera. He wears a shirt...

Blues drummer and vocalist Casey Jones turns his head slightly over his right shoulder to smile at the camera.. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "The Chi-Town Boogie Man Casey Jones. Airwax...

CeDell Davis, blues harmonica player, guitar player, and singer, smiles at the camera as he sits holding a guitar and wearing a ball cap. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "CeDell Davis. Fat...

Charles Wilson, a blues singer from Chicago, looks directly at the camera in a close-up, head-shot photograph. He wears a horn necklace. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Charles Wilson...

Charles Wilson, a blues singer from Chicago, looks at the camera in a close-up, head-shot photograph. He wears a bow tie. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "The Young Prince of Blues & Soul...

Chick Willis, an African American male blues guitarist and singer, laughs as he plays an electric guitar. He wears a light-colored flat-cap backwards and a tuxedo jacket with a wide, light-colored...

Chick Willis, an African American male blues guitarist and singer, leans forward and to the right with his legs spread wide as he plays an electric jazz guitar and smiles at the camera. He wears a...

Blues electric guitarist and vocalist Chris Beard points at the photographer as he holds the neck of a guitar he holds upright. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Price of Blues, W.C. Handy...

Blues vocalist and guitarist Chris Thomas King wears sunglasses in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Chris Thomas King. 21CB records [logo]. Scotti Bros...

Blues vocalist and guitarist Chris Thomas King stands on a palm tree-lined sidewalk, holding a guitar case and looking to the right. The windows of the building he stands beside are barred. Printed in...

Rock vocalist Corey Glover covers his hair with both hands to display a ring on every finger of his left hand and on ring on his right. He looks seriously up at the photographer between his hands...

Blues guitarist and vocalist Corey Harris looks to the camera from one side of the neck of a guitar. He holds the neck with both hands on which he wears a steel slide and rhythm rings. Printed in the...

Cotton Candy & So Many Men, a blues band from Kansas City comprised of one African American woman, one African American man, and four white men, sit on or in front of a tile wall in front of a...

Cotton Candy and So Many Men, is a blues ensemble comprised of one African American woman, six white men, and one African American man. Vocalist Cotton Candy sits between a drummer and a guitarist on...