Grand Emporium Collection

Bel Airs, a blues-rock band from Columbia, Missouri comprised of three white men, perform on the stage of the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri with Mark Wenner, harmonica player and singer...

Billy Lee Riley and the Original Little Green Men, a rockabilly band comprised of four white men, grin as they sit, stand or crouch in a corner. One band member sits on a bass drum case. Another rests...

Four members of the five member Blue City Band, a blues band comprised of three white men and two African American men, perform in a tent. Farthest to the left is David Tims playing the drums and...

Darrell Nulisch, blues harmonica player and singer, stands center stage at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri and lifts his left hand toward the ceiling and holds a microphone to his mouth...

Harmonica Shah Blues Band featuring Howard Glazer, is a blues band consisting of one African American harmonica player (Harmonica Shah) and three white men. The man to the left of Harmonica Shah...

Blues harmonica player Lee McBee looks directly into the camera as he holds a harmonica to his mouth with both hands in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Printed in the margin below the photograph,...

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...

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...

The Paul deLay Band, a blues band comprised of five white men, stand outdoors in a line and smile or laugh. Paul deLay is farthest to the right. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Evidence...

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...