Grand Emporium Collection

Percy Strother, electric blues guitarist, sits on a footstool and rests one foot on a step of the stool as he plays an electric guitar and smiles toward the camera. He wears a straw cowboy hat...

Percy Strother, electric blues guitarist in a close-up, head-shot photograph, tips the brim of a light-colored fedora hat with a wide floral hatband. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Percy...

Electric blues guitarist Percy Strother tips the brim of a light-colored fedora hat with a wide floral hatband.

Percy Strother, electric blues guitarist, stands with his fedora hat cocked to one side playing an electric guitar. He wears a velvet jacket and velvet pants. Printed in the margin below the...

Phillip Walker, blues guitarist, smiles at the camera as he hugs an electric blues guitar under his right arm. He wears a pinstripe business suit and a necktie. Printed in the margin below the...

Phillip Walker, blues guitarist, smiles at the camera as he hugs an electric blues guitar under his right arm. He wears a pinstripe business suit and a necktie. Printed in the margin below the...

Phillip Walker, blues guitarist, turns his head slightly to the left to smile at the camera as he plays a guitar. He wears a business suit and a necktie. Printed in the margin below the photograph,...

Phillip Walker, blues guitarist holds his fingers where the neck of the guitar meets the body in a close-up, head-shot photograph. The guitar is signed. Phillips wears a dark fedora hat with a leather...

Preston Shannon, blues guitarist and singer, smiles as he holds a guitar across his body in a close-up photograph. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Preston Shannon. Bullseye Blues [logo]...

Preston Shannon, blues guitarist and singer, smiles as he rests his chin on his left hand and hugs the guitar body to his chest with the neck down toward the floor. Printed in the margin below the...

Chicago blues keyboard player Professor Eddie Lusk props his keyboard on its side on the ground and rests his right hand on it as he leans his left forearm on the right should of Chicago blues singer...

Professor's Blues Review featuring Gloria Hardiman, is a blues band comprised of four African American men who stand behind Gloria Hardiman, blues singer, who sits in an upholstered chair in front of...

The R.J. and Kid Morgan Blues Band featuring Percy Strother stand together performing. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "the R.J. & Kid Morgan Blues Band (featuring Percy Strother!). Blue...

R.J. and Kid Morgan Blues Band featuring Percy Strother, is a Chicago blues group comprised of one African American man and four white men. Band members stand around Strother holding their instruments...

Blues guitarist R.L. Burnside wears a conical masonic [possibly?] hat and holds his hands up shoulder height with his fingers spread.. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Fat Possum Records...

A mock up promotional photograph of blues guitarist R.L. Burnside stands at a microphone and smiles as he plays guitar. Printed below the photograph on a piece of graph paper, "R.L. Burnside."

Harmonica player Jon Beckley Morris [i.e. Nermberg] faces away from R.L. Burnside as he plays a harmonica. They are standing on railroad tracks, and facing scaffolding up to an antenna while playing...

The Radio Kings, a blues band comprised of one African American man and three white men, who stand outside and look seriously at the camera. The band member on the right has his arms crossed. Printed...

Blues musician Ray Drew in a head-shot photograph, curls his left hand fingers around his chin and looks at the photographer while wearing a captain's hat with Ray Drew in under the eagle emblem and a...

Robert "Bilbo" Walker, blues guitarist, does the duck walk down a dirt road as he plays an electric guitar. A Lincoln limousine is parked on the side of the road behind him. A field of, likely, cotton...

Robert Cray, blues guitarist and singer, looks up to smile at the camera as he plays an electric guitar with the neck pointed at the camera in a close-up photograph. He wears a dark shirt. Printed in...

Blues guitarist Robert Cray looks out wearing sunglasses and a sleeveless t-shirt as he stands behind a microphone and plays an electric guitar. Printed in the right margin, "Photo: Rocky W. Widner."

Blues guitarist Robert Cray looks up to smile directly at the camera as he plays an electric guitar. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "The Robert Cray Band. the rosebud agency, P.O. Box...

Blues guitarist Robert Cray puckers his lips and looks to the left as he plays an electric guitar. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "The Robert Cray Band. the rosebud agency, P.O. Box...

Ron Thompson and the Resistors, a blues band comprised of two white men who stand with their instruments and one African American man who sits on a barstool holding drum sticks. He wears a straw...