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Big Daddy Kinsey

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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...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Billy Childs

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Pianist Billy Childs, in a split photograph, sits at a piano with a vase of tulips on top as he wears a dark fedora and a dark suit. Printed in the...

Date Published
1988
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bobby Parker

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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...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Buckwheat Zydeco

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Accordionist Buckwheat Zydeco grins as he sits on a chair holding an accordion on his left thigh and playing with a cat on his right thigh. Four...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Buckwheat Zydeco

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Accordionist Buckwheat Zydeco grins as he sits on a chair holding an accordion on his left thigh and playing with a cat on his right thigh. Four...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Buckwheat Zydeco

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Accordion player Buckwheat Zydeco, in a head-shot photograph, looks directly at the photographer as he wears a black cowboy hat. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Casey Jones

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Blues drummer and vocalist Casey Jones bends his elbow to curl three fingers of his right hand on his right cheek with one finger pointed straight up...

Date Published
1983
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Casey Jones

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Blues drummer and vocalist Casey Jones turns his head slightly over his right shoulder to smile at the camera.. Printed in the margin below the...

Date Published
1983
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Chicago Rhythm and Blues Kings

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Chicago Rhythm and Blues Kings, a blues band comprised of four white men and two African American men, stand together. All are wearing dark suits. Two...

Date Published
1993
1999
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Chubby Carrier

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Zydeco accordionist Chubby Carrier smiles as he plays his personalized accordion in a photograph taken from above his head. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1993
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Chubby Carrier

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Zydeco accordionist Chubby Carrier opens his mouth to sing as he plays his personalized accordion. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Photo...

Date Published
1993
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles as he sits in a dressing room

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits in a dressing room or green room wearing a tuxedo and smiling as he plays his fiddle. A lighted make-up table is on the...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Dirty Dozen Brass Band

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Dirty Dozen Brass Band, a big band comprised of eight African American men, gather with five men standing behind three seated men. A bass drum with...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Eddie 'House Rockin' Shaw

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Eddie Shaw, blues saxophone player and singer, smiles at the camera as he stands and lifts his arms wide while holding a saxophone across his body...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Geno Delafose

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Zydeco accordionist and vocalist Geno Delafose smiles and looks up as he rests his hands on an accordion that is only partially in the close-up...

Date Published
1992
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

George Howard

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Jazz saxophonist George Howard smiles at the camera in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "George Howard...

Date Published
1993
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Guitar Shorty

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Blues guitarist Guitar Shorty stands in front of a painted brick wall, opens his mouth wide and turns his head to the left as he plays an electric...

Date Published
1993
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Guitar Shorty

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Blues guitarist Guitar Shorty leans against a vintage Chrysler sedan and smiles as he holds an electric guitar. Printed in the margin below the...

Date Published
1993
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Joe Louis Walker

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Joe Louis Walker, blues guitarist, laughs as he stands and holds an electric blues guitar by the head stock as the body rests on the floor by his foot...

Date Published
1993
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Joe Louis Walker

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Joe Louis Walker, blues guitarist, sits on the hood on the passenger side of a mustang and smiles at the camera as he wears sunglasses. The photograph...

Date Published
1993
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Joe Louis Walker

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Blues guitarist Joe Louis Walker looks to the right as he plays an electric blues guitar while wearing a dark leather jacket. There are playbills on...

Date Published
1993
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Joe Louis Walker

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Blues guitarist Joe Louis Walker looks to the right as he plays an electric blues guitar while wearing a dark leather jacket. There are playbills on...

Date Published
1993
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Killer Bees

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Reggae vocalist Michael E. Johnson (left) looks back over his right shoulder to look at the camera as he wears a ball cap backwards on his head. His...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Kinsey Report

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The Kinsey Report, a blues band comprised of three African American men, sit outside in front of a concrete wall with the number 42 painted on the...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Little Anthony and the Loco-Motives featuring Karl Kelly

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Blues harmonica player Karl Kelly sits beside blues pianist Little Anthony. Karl is photographed from his right side while Anthony turns to the right...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

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Member of

  • Grand Emporium Collection (30)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (31)

Genres

  • Publicity photographs (31)
  • Black & white photographs (30)
  • Gelatin silver prints (30)
  • Portrait photographs (25)
  • Group portraits (4)
  • Color photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (30)
  • 1981-1990 (5)

Subjects

  • Blues musicians (16)
  • Guitarists (10)
  • Singers (9)
  • Accordionists (6)
  • Zydeco musicians (6)
  • Accordion (5)
  • African American jazz musicians (5)
  • Jazz musicians (5)
  • Bands (Music) (4)
  • Guitar (4)
  • Men, White (4)
  • Pianists (4)
  • Saxophonists (4)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Harmonica players (3)
  • Cats (2)
  • Hats (2)
  • Kittens (2)
  • Piano (2)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Big bands (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Harmonica (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Reggae musicians (1)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (1)
  • Rock musicians (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • (-) African American men (31)

Subjects, People

  • Walker, Joe Louis (4)
  • Dural, Buckwheat, 1947-2016 (3)
  • Carrier, Chubby (2)
  • Guitar Shorty, 1939- (2)
  • Jones, Casey (Drummer) (2)
  • Sun Ra (2)
  • Anderson, Keith (Sousaphone player) (1)
  • Andrews, Revert (1)
  • Batiste, Lionel, 1932-2012 (1)
  • Brown, Michael (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Childs, Billy (1)
  • Davis, Gregory (Trumpeter) (1)
  • Delafose, Geno (1)
  • Harris, Kevin (Tenor saxophonist) (1)
  • Hoffman, Stanton (1)
  • Howard, George, 1956-1998 (1)
  • Johnson, Michael E. (1)
  • Kelly, Karl, 1947-2012 (1)
  • Kinsey, Big Daddy, 1927-2001 (1)
  • Kinsey, Donald, 1953- (1)
  • Kinsey, Kenneth (Bass guitarist) (1)
  • Kinsey, Ralph (Drummer) (1)
  • Lewis, Roger (Roger H.), 1941- (1)
  • Little Anthony (1)
  • Little Hatch, 1921-2003 (1)
  • Marshall, Jenell (1)
  • Parker, Bobby, 1937-2013 (1)
  • Shaw, Eddie, 1937-2018 (1)
  • Towns, Efrem (1)
  • Vaughn, Maurice John (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)

Date Published

  • 1998 (7)
  • 1983 (2)
  • 1985 (2)
  • 1992 (2)
  • 1996 (2)
  • 1988 (1)
  • 1999 (1)
  • (-) 1993 (31)

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