Grand Emporium Collection

Big Bad Smitty, blues guitarist and singer, sits holding an electric guitar by the neck and between his legs. He looks seriously at the camera. An amplifier is behind him on the left. Printed in the...

Big Daddy Kinsey, blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, holds a guitar that is across his chest, in a close-up, head-shot photograph. He wears a dark business suit and a light colored hat...

Big Daddy Kinsey, blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, holds the neck of a guitar in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Bookings: Tom Gold Agency...

Rockabilly guitarist and vocalist Bill Kirchen smiles as he holds an electric guitar high on his chest in a close-up, head-shot photograph. He wears a string tie. Printed in the margin below the...

Country music guitarist and vocalist Bill Kleoppel kneels on the ground leaning on an acoustic guitar resting on his thigh. He wears a cowboy hat and a plaid shirt. Printed in the margin below the...

Billy Lee Riley, rockabilly singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, turns his head to the left and rests his chin on the curled fingers of his right hand in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Printed...

Billy Lee Riley, rockabilly singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, looks seriously into the camera as he holds a harmonica with both hands and wears a fedora hat cocked to the side in a close-up...

Rockabilly vocalist and guitarist Billy Lee Riley sits sideways on a chair that is outside, crosses his legs, and holds a drink in his right hand and the neck of an electric guitar in his left. The...

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...

Rock guitarist Bob Mould in a close-up, head-shot photograph, seriously looks slightly to the left. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Bob Mould. Treat Artists, Inc., Literary & Talent...

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...

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...

Blues guitarist and vocalist Bonnie Raitt smiles over her right shoulder as she stands behind a microphone playing an acoustic guitar. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Bonnie Raitt...

Brian Stoltz, singer, funk and soul guitarist from New Orleans, Louisiana, looks down with concentration as he plays an electric guitar; light coming from behind him. Printed in the margin below the...

Bridges and Smith, a duo comprised of a white woman and a white man, stand outside in front of a fence each holding a guitar. Printed across the bottom of the photocopy of a photograph, "Bridges and...

Blues guitarist and vocalist Bryan Lee looks left in a close-up head-shot photograph. He wears a dark hat with a braided leather hatband with alligator teeth decoration and sunglasses. Printed in the...

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...

Blues guitarist and vocalist C.A. Waller, from Lincoln, Nebraska, leans his elbows on a railing and rests his chin on his wrists in a close-up, head-shot photograph. A guitar case is leaning on a...

Blues guitarist and vocalist C.A. Waller, from Lincoln, Nebraska, stands on a step looking down in a dark and narrow stairwell. He is able to rest his left hand on the ceiling above his head. He...

Blues-rock guitarist and vocalist C.C. Adcock sits behind the steering wheel of a vintage car and looks to his right to the backseat to smile at the photographer. He wears a dark cowboy hat with a...

Blues-rock guitarist and vocalist C.C. Adcock photographed in profile from his left with a building sign to the left of his face that reads, "Evang-line." He has chest-length hair. Printed in the...

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...