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Anson Funderburgh and Sam Myers

Image

Guitarist Anson Funderburgh folds his hands on the right shoulder of blues vocalist Sam Myers who is wearing sunglasses. Printed in the margin below...

Date Published
1981
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bar BQ Bob and Washboard Chaz

Image

Guitarist Bar BQ Bob and washboard player Washboard Chaz crouch down on a boulder with their instruments and smile at the photographer. Printed in the...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Big "Babe" Martin and the Chump Change Blues Band

Image

Big "Babe" Martin and the Chump Change Blues Band, is a band comprised of three African American men and two white men. Two African American men sit...

Date Published
1985
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bobby Watson at an unidentified venue

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Bobby Watson performing at an unidentified venue. He is playing saxophone on stage in front of an unidentified bass player. Watson is wearing a...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Brazos Valley Boys

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Brazos Valley Boys, a country music band, has separate head-shot photographs of five white men wearing blue shirts, black neck scarves, and white...

Date Published
1985
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Culture

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Culture is a Jamaican reggae band comprised of three men. One member holds forth a quartz crystal with his right hand and holds a carved walking stick...

Date Published
1989
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Dave Pegg, Richard Thompson, and an unidentified accordion player

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Dave Pegg playing the bass and singing into a microphone. Richard Thompson, sitting and playing an amplified tambourine in his right hand and a snare...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

David Lindley

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David Lindley, multi-instrumentalist, closes his eyes and winces as he sings into a microphone and flat-picks a guitar in a close-up, head-shot...

Date Published
1981
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Dizzy Gillespie hugging an unidentified woman

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Dizzy Gillespie hugging an unidentified woman. Gillespie is smiling and wearing a t-shirt with stripes on the arm.

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Dread Zeppelin

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Dread Zeppelin, an impersonation band comprised of six white men, stand in a group in full costume to look straight up at the photographer. Printed in...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis on stage

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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis standing on a stage while holding a saxophone. He is looking down and is resting one hand on a piano.

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Foreign Dread

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Foreign Dread, likely a reggae band, comprised of three Jamaican men and one white (possibly) man, stand in front of a fence. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1985
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Herman D. Kenin with Richard Smith

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Herman D. Kenin, AFM President, shaking hands with Richard Smith, Musicians Local 627 President, at the 69th Annual Convention of American Federation...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Horace Peterson and Horace Washington in a museum

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Horace Peterson, founder of the Mid-America Black Archives and Horace Washington standing in a museum. They are in front of a cabin display and are...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jay McShann smiling

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Jay McShann smiling while looking to the left. He is in front of an unidentified man in back. McShann is possibly sitting at a piano. A microphone on...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jim Brickman

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Jim Brickman, pop music singer and pianist, leans on the edge a piano by the keyboard, with his forearms crossed, and looks directly at the...

Date Published
1984
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Jimmy Witherspoon singing

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Jimmy Witherspoon singing into a microphone on stage. He is wearing a suit and looking to the right. Unidentified musicians are playing behind him.

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Led Jaxson Band

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The Led Jaxson Band, a blues band comprised of five white men, stand on steps smiling at the camera. Most wears suit jackets. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1989
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

New Bennie Moten Orchestra outside the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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The New Bennie Moten Orchestra, outside the Mutual Musicians Foundation, 1823 Highland, Kansas City.

Date Published
1990
2000
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Nighthawks

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The Nighthawks, a blues-rock band comprised of five white men, standing in a line smiling at the camera. The band member farthest to the left is...

Date Published
1984
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Oliver Todd Band at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Oliver Todd Band performing upstairs at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Marcellus Lee playing drums...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Oliver Todd Duo at the Yum Yum Club

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Oliver Todd Duo performing at the Yum Yum Club on 31st Street and Troost Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Oliver Todd is playing organ and looking...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Publicity photo of Claude "Fiddler" Williams

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Publicity photo of Claude "Fiddler" Williams. He is looking forward and smiling while holding his fiddle and bow in both hands. He is wearing a dark...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Smokey Joe Kasey

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Smokey Joe Kasey, guitarist, holds a blue electric guitar with Austin, Texas, and Smokey in silver glitter applied to the body of the guitar. He wears...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Speakeasy

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Speakeasy, a band comprised of four white men, perform on a stage with open walls and log supports. The bass guitarist wears a cowboy hat. Next is the...

Date Published
1985
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

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  • 1981-1990

Member of

  • Grand Emporium Collection (20)
  • Betty Crow Collection (10)
  • Vic Damon Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (31)

Genres

  • Publicity photographs (17)
  • Color photographs (16)
  • Black & white photographs (15)
  • Gelatin silver prints (15)
  • Group portraits (12)
  • Snapshots (10)
  • Portrait photographs (7)
  • Photocopies (2)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (17)
  • (-) 1981-1990 (31)

Subjects

  • Men, White (18)
  • Bands (Music) (11)
  • African American jazz musicians (10)
  • Jazz musicians (10)
  • Photographs (9)
  • Blues musicians (8)
  • Musicians (7)
  • African American men (4)
  • Portraits (4)
  • Portraits, Group (4)
  • Black people (3)
  • Jamaicans (3)
  • Keyboard players (3)
  • Men (3)
  • Reggae musicians (3)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Double bassists (2)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Guitar (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Rock musicians (2)
  • Singers (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Accordion (1)
  • Accordionists (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Celebrity impersonators (1)
  • Country musicians (1)
  • Folk-rock music (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Male singers (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Percussionists (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Quartz crystals (1)
  • Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.) (1)
  • Washboards (1)
  • Women, White (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (3)
  • 18th and Vine District (1)
  • Las Vegas (Nev.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Todd, Oliver, 1916-2001 (2)
  • Bar BQ Bob (1)
  • Baty, Charlie (1)
  • Brickman, Jim (1)
  • Davis, Eddie, 1922-1986 (1)
  • Funderburgh, Anson (1)
  • Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 (1)
  • Hoard, J. Henry (John Henry), 1918-2010 (1)
  • Johnson, Sam, Jr. (1)
  • Kasey, Smokey Joe (1)
  • Leary, Washboard Chaz (1)
  • Lee, Marcellus (1)
  • Lindley, David, 1944- (1)
  • Martin, Big Babe (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Myers, Sam, 1936-2006 (1)
  • Neutzler, Wendy (1)
  • Pegg, Dave (1)
  • Peterson, Horace (1)
  • Price, Elmer, 1917-2004 (1)
  • Smith, Richard (Musician) (1)
  • Stafford, Bobby (1)
  • Stewart, Tinga (1)
  • Tawl Paul (1)
  • Thompson, Richard, 1949- (1)
  • Washington, Horace, 1952-2014 (1)
  • Watson, Robert, 1953- (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)
  • Witherspoon, Jimmy (1)
  • Zanders, Al (1)

Date Published

  • 1995 (10)
  • 1985 (8)
  • 1991 (5)
  • 1981 (2)
  • 1984 (2)
  • 1989 (2)
  • 1987 (1)
  • 1990 (1)
  • (-) 2000 (31)

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