Grand Emporium Collection

Blues guitarist Smokin' Joe Kubek and blues guitarist and singer B'nois King are on a sidewalk outside a record store. Smokin' Joe stands behind a seated B'nois King, both holding their guitars...

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...

Blues guitarist and singer Sonny Rhodes plays an electric guitar while wearing a business suit and a turban. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Sonny Rhodes. King Snake Records [logo]...

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...

Super ChiKan, blues guitarist and singer, stands outside laughing as he plays an electric guitar with a rooster sitting on the headstock. Behind him is a line with laundry hanging on it and a...

Blues guitarist and vocalist Syl Johnson sits in front of a partially demolished wall and smiles as he sits and leans his electric guitar back on his left shoulder. He wears a backwards flat cap and a...

TailDragger (James Yancy Jones), Chicago blues singer, tilts his head to the left and looks up at the camera in a close-up photograph, as he sings into a microphone. He wears a dark cowboy hat...

Taj Mahal, blues and rock singer, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist, looks intently at the camera as he plays a resonator guitar. He wears a light colored fedora hat with a dark hat band and a dark...

An unidentified white man sits outdoors on a folding chair and hugs his right leg up to his chest as he turns his head to the right to look at the camera. He wears a Santa Cruz Blues Festival ball cap...

Soul singer and guitarist Terry Evans sits in an overstuffed upholstered chair outside in long grasses with a guitar leaning up against the side of the chair. Printed in the margin below the...

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

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...

Tommy Ridgley, rhythm & blues singer and piano player, grins as he stands with his hands waist high and his fingers spread wide. He wears a double-breasted suit. Printed in the margin below the...

Blues and R&B vocalist Tyrone Davis stands in front of a textured wall and smiles. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Future Records, 600 N. McClug Ct., Suite 312A, Chicago, IL, 60611, (312)...

An unidentified African American man from his left side, looks to his left with a smile as he holding microphone, wearing a top hat, ripped jeans, and a jean jacket. Another band member is behind him.

Blues vocalist Valerie Wellington turns to look back and grin at her band while performing on the stage of the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. Her band is comprised of three African American...

Two separate negative photographs of blues singer Valerie Wellington and blues guitarist and vocalist Eddy Clearwater. Valerie's photograph is a close-up, head-shot photograph of her singing into a...

Singer Veldez closes his eyes as he sings into a microphone. He is wearing a double-breasted striped business suit. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Veldez."

Vinx, percussionist and singer, leans with his ankles crossed against a rough wall and looks down to the left toward the light on the left side. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Vinx...

Vinx, percussionist and singer, rests his hands on the back of a light colored top hat he is wearing and looks seriously at the camera in a close-up photograph. He wears stylized eyeglasses. Printed...

Blues singer Shawn Amos, in his persona of Whitey McFearsun, sits on a chair wearing white-framed sunglasses and bends to squeeze the toes of the loafers he is wearing. Printed in the margin below the...

Blues drummer and vocalist Willie "The Touch" Hayes purses his lips and looks over his left shoulder as he plays a drum set while wearing a dark fedora hat. Printed in the margin below the photograph...

Blues double bassist Willie Dixon laughs as he hugs his arms around the neck of his bass. He wears a light colored fedora hat and a light colored business suit and necktie.

Soul singer Wilson Pickett looks directly at the camera as he rests his hands on his bent left knee. He wears a business suit and tie with a tie tack. Printed in the margin below the photograph,...

Possibly Z.Z. Hill, blues singer, performing on stage with four other male band members. He smiles to the left at the electric guitarist who is mostly out of the photograph. Blurred behind him is a...