Grand Emporium Collection

Son Seals, electric blues guitarist, sits and looks seriously at the camera with one hand on his hip and the other arm lying over an electric guitar that hangs from a strap around his shoulder. He...

Son Seals, blues guitarist, stands and looks down at an electric guitar he is playing. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Son Seals. J.Q. Management, 2873 E. 91st St., Chicago, IL 60617...

Son Seals, blues guitarist, sits with one hand on his hip and his left arm over an electric guitar as he looks seriously at the camera. He wears an embroidered vest with a paisley design. Printed in...

Son Seals Band, an electric blues band comprised of one white male saxophonist and two African American guitarists, stand on the stage performing during the Kansas City Blues Society festival. The...

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]...

South Side Slim, blues guitarist, sits on a ladder-back chair wearing a business suit and a dark cowboy hat with a wide, printed headband, leans his elbows on his thighs and crosses his hands as he...

Sugar Blue, blues harmonica player, looks seriously at the camera as he crosses his arms and holds a harmonica up near his shoulder in a close-up photograph. He wears a dark leather cap and vest over...

Sugar Blue, blues harmonica player, looks at the camera as he crosses his arms and holds a harmonica up near his shoulder and a microphone on a table top in a close-up photograph. He wears a dark...

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, a blues and jazz musician, looks at the camera as he plays a resonator guitar. He wears a straw hat with a contrasting hatband and two necklaces. Printed in the margin below the photograph...

Taj Mahal, a blues and jazz musician, looks at the camera as he plays a resonator guitar. He wears a straw hat with a contrasting hatband and two necklaces. Printed in the margin below the photograph...

Taj Mahal, blues and jazz musician, sits in a booth at a diner and smokes a cigar as he wears a straw hat and wears sunglasses. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Private Music. Taj Mahal."...

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...

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)...

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...

Vince Agwada, blues musician and leader of the band, One Eyed Jax, looks straight at the camera in a close-up, head-shot photograph in which he wears a dark leather jacket. A brick wall is behind him...

Blues guitarist W. C. Clark smiles with his mouth wide open as he plays an electric guitar. He wears a business suit and a fedora hat. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Booking: Ozark...

Blues guitarist W.C. Clark leans slightly forward as he plays an electric guitar. He wears a fedora. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Black Top Records [logo]. "Paving the way to your...

Walter "Wolfman" Washington, jazz, funk, and blues guitarist, laughs and stands with one hand in his pocket and the other resting on the body of a guitar that hangs from a guitar strap around his neck...

Walter "Wolfman" Washington and the Roadmasters, a jazz, funk and blues band comprised of two African American men and five white men, who stand in a group wearing business suits or neckties and...

Wendy Neutzler leans her head into the cheek of an unidentified African American man who leans his cheek towards the side of her head at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri as Little Charlie...