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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

Image

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

Big Woody Blues Revue

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The Big Woody Blues Revue is a blues band comprised of five African American men and one white man. The white man holds an electric guitar. Printed on...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

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

Brody Buster

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A photocopy of a head-shot photograph of Brody Buster holding a harmonica with both hand and looking directly at the photographer. Printed in the...

Date Published
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

Cotton Candy and So Many Men

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Cotton Candy and So Many Men, is a blues ensemble comprised of one African American woman, six white men, and one African American man. Vocalist...

Date Published
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Cotton Candy and So Many Men

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Cotton Candy and So Many Men, is a blues ensemble comprised of one African American woman, six white men, and one African American man. Vocalist...

Date Published
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Lionel Young

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Lionel Young, blues violinist, looks at the violin he is playing as he wears a fedora hat and a bolo tie. Printed in the margin below the photograph,...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Little Mary

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Blues singer Little Mary sings into a microphone with her eyes closed in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Handwritten in the margin below the...

Date Published
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

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

Silvatones

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Silvatones, an Oklahoma funk, blues, and soul band comprised of three white men, crouch beside a wooden fence of horizontal planks. The band member on...

Date Published
1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Stanley Milton

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Blues guitarist Stanley Milton of Stanley Milton's Mean Streak, stands on stage with his eyes shut tight as he plays an electric guitar and stands...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium 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

Zoe (and the Mofoes)

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Zoe, keyboard player and singer of the band, Zoe and the MoFoes, a local Kansas City band, winks her right eye and smiles at the camera in a close-up...

Date Published
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection
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  • Blues musicians

Member of

  • Grand Emporium Collection (16)
  • B.B. Queen (2)

Types

  • photographs (18)

Genres

  • Publicity photographs (17)
  • Portrait photographs (11)
  • Color photographs (10)
  • Black & white photographs (7)
  • Group portraits (5)
  • Pastels (Visual works) (1)
  • Portrait drawings (1)
  • (-) Photocopies (18)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (14)
  • 2001-2010 (3)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • African American men (9)
  • Guitarists (9)
  • Men, White (9)
  • Singers (7)
  • African American women (6)
  • Bands (Music) (6)
  • Guitar (3)
  • Harmonica players (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Funk musicians (1)
  • Harmonica (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Soul musicians (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • (-) Blues musicians (18)

Subjects, People

  • Queen, B. B. (3)
  • Washington, Cotton Candy, 1931-2007 (3)
  • Angelou, Maya (1)
  • Beard, Chris, 1957- (1)
  • Buster, Brody, 1984- (1)
  • Funderburgh, Anson (1)
  • Grand, Otis (1)
  • Grant, Taz (1)
  • King, B. B. (1)
  • Little Mary (Blues singer) (1)
  • McKinley, Zoe Elaine Burns, 1957-2013 (1)
  • Milton, Stanley (1)
  • Studebaker John, 1952- (1)
  • Taylor, Koko (1)
  • Walker, Robert, 1937-2017 (1)
  • Young, Lionel (1)

Date Published

  • 2000 (9)
  • 1997 (4)
  • 1998 (4)
  • 2004 (3)
  • 1995 (2)
  • 2001 (2)
  • 1981 (1)
  • 1990 (1)
  • 1991 (1)
  • 1994 (1)
  • 1996 (1)

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