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B.B. Queen

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B.B. Queen, an African American female blues guitarist, promotional photograph front and back.

Date Published
1997
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

B.B. Queen- back

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B.B. Queen is a blues guitarist and singer. A publicity sheet printed on the back of her publicity photograph. Five paragraphs of biographical and...

Date Published
1997
2000
Member of
B.B. Queen

B.B. Queen- front

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Front of a publicity photograph for B.B. Queen, blues guitarist, who looks down at the neck of a Fender electric guitar and smiles as she plays...

Date Published
1997
2000
Member of
B.B. Queen

Brian "Taz" Grant

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Blues guitarist Brian "Taz" Grant sits holding a red and black electric guitar on his lap with both of his hand over the top of the body. He wears...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bridges and Smith

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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...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Chris Beard

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Blues electric guitarist and vocalist Chris Beard points at the photographer as he holds the neck of a guitar he holds upright. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1998
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Cotton Candy and So Many Men

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Cotton Candy & So Many Men, a blues band from Kansas City comprised of one African American woman, one African American man, and four white men, sit...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Jason D. Williams

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Rock pianist and vocalist Jason D. Williams stands on stage behind a microphone with his eyes closed and his mouth wide open. He wears a beige sweater...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Mike Reilly

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Blues-rock guitarist Mike Reilly stands outside a bus holding an electric guitar and smiling. He wears a do-rag and sunglasses. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Olivier Giraud

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French musician Olivier Giraud is standing holding a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other on a sailboat that is out on a body of water...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Otis Grand

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Blues guitarist Otis Grand and possibly Anson Funderburgh, also a blues guitarist, from the back, sit at a table in an empty restaurant with a few...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Pascal Bokar

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Pascal Bokar, a French African man who plays AfroBlueGrazz music, smiles as he holds a guitar. He wears blue traditional African clothing.

Date Published
1994
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Robert "Bilbo" Walker

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Robert "Bilbo" Walker, blues guitarist, does the duck walk down a dirt road as he plays an electric guitar. A Lincoln limousine is parked on the side...

Date Published
1997
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium 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

Steve Abshire and Claude "Fiddler" Williams perform in a church setting

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From stage right, a grand piano sits stage right with Steve Abshire sitting between the piano and the stage apron on a stool playing his jazz guitar...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Steve Abshire and Claude "Fiddler" Williams perform in a church setting

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From stage right, the stage steps lead up to a grand piano that sits stage right with Steve Abshire sitting between the piano and the stage apron on a...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Steve Abshire and Claude "Fiddler" Williams perform in a church setting

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From stage right, a grand piano sits stage right with Steve Abshire sitting between the piano and the stage apron on a stool playing his jazz guitar...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Steve Abshire and Claude "Fiddler" Williams perform in a church setting

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams performing on stage with Steve Abshire, guitar, inside a church. Claude wears a brown leather suit as he stands center stage...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Steve Abshire and Claude "Fiddler" Williams stand after a performance in a church setting

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles at the audience from center stage as he stands, holds his fiddle waist high, tucked under his right arm, and his bow...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Studebaker John

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A photocopy of a pastel drawing of Studebaker John, Chicago blues guitarist and harmonica player, closing his eyes as he plays an electric guitar. He...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Unidentified male guitarist performing (top); Unidentified female singer performing (bottom)

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An unidentified black male guitarist closes his eyes and tilts his head back as he is performing in a close-up photograph (top). An unidentified black...

Date Published
1985
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection
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  • Photocopies
  • Guitarists

Member of

  • Grand Emporium Collection (14)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (5)
  • B.B. Queen (2)

Types

  • photographs (21)

Genres

  • Color photographs (14)
  • Publicity photographs (14)
  • Portrait photographs (11)
  • Black & white photographs (6)
  • Group portraits (2)
  • Pastels (Visual works) (1)
  • Portrait drawings (1)
  • (-) Photocopies (21)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (11)
  • 2001-2010 (4)
  • 1981-1990 (3)

Subjects

  • Men, White (13)
  • African American men (11)
  • Blues musicians (9)
  • Singers (6)
  • African American jazz musicians (5)
  • Fiddlers (5)
  • Guitar (5)
  • Jazz musicians (5)
  • Jazz musicians, White (5)
  • African American women (4)
  • Bass guitarists (2)
  • Black people (2)
  • Musicians (2)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Blues-rock music (1)
  • Boats and boating (1)
  • Bodies of water (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Ethnic costume (1)
  • French (1)
  • Harmonica players (1)
  • Men (1)
  • Rock musicians (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Women (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • (-) Guitarists (21)

Subjects, People

  • Abshire, Steve (5)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (5)
  • Queen, B. B. (3)
  • Angelou, Maya (1)
  • Beard, Chris, 1957- (1)
  • Funderburgh, Anson (1)
  • Giraud, Olivier (Guitarist) (1)
  • Grand, Otis (1)
  • Grant, Taz (1)
  • Kasey, Smokey Joe (1)
  • King, B. B. (1)
  • Reilly, Mike, 1958- (1)
  • Studebaker John, 1952- (1)
  • Taylor, Koko (1)
  • Thiam, Pascal Bokar (1)
  • Walker, Robert, 1937-2017 (1)
  • Washington, Cotton Candy, 1931-2007 (1)
  • Williams, Jason D. (1)

Date Published

  • 2000 (13)
  • 1991 (7)
  • 1997 (4)
  • 2004 (4)
  • 2001 (3)
  • 1996 (2)
  • 1998 (2)
  • 1981 (1)
  • 1985 (1)
  • 1990 (1)
  • 1994 (1)
  • 1995 (1)

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