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Alvin Youngblood Hart

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Alvin Youngblood Hart, blues guitarist and singer, looks slightly off to his left as he sits and plays an acoustic guitar in a close-up photograph...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Alvin Youngblood Hart

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Alvin Youngblood Hart, blues guitarist and singer, has a far-off look in his eyes as he sits and sings into a microphone and plays a resonator guitar...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Alvin Youngblood Hart

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Alvin Youngblood Hart, blues guitarist and singer, looks seriously to his left as he sits behind a microphone and plays a resonator guitar.

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Andrienne Wilson

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Jazz vocalist and flute player Andrienne Wilson closes her eyes and smiles with closed lips as she looks into light. She holds a microphone. She wears...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Angélique Kidjo

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Angélique Kiojo, a singer from Benin, stands in front of a wallpapered wall of black ivy as she wears a red headscarf, a tuxedo jacket over a white...

Date Published
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Baaba Maal

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Baaba Maal, a Senegalese singer, guitar player, and percussionist, who sings mostly in the language of Pulaar, looks to his left and holds eyeglasses...

Date Published
2000
2001
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Baaba Maal

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Baaba Maal, a Senegalese singer, guitar player, and percussionist, who sings mostly in the language of Pulaar, bends over looking down while playing a...

Date Published
2000
2001
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Baaba Maal

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Baaba Maal, a Senegalese singer, guitar player, and percussionist, who sings mostly in the language of Pulaar, raises his hands toward the camera with...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Baaba Maal

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Baaba Maal, a Senegalese singer, guitar player, and percussionist, who sings mostly in the language of Pulaar, laughs as he hugs his left shoulder. He...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bel Airs with Mark Wenner

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Bel Airs, a blues-rock band from Columbia, Missouri comprised of three white men, perform on the stage of the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri...

Date Published
May-1987
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bert Wills

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Blues guitarist and singer Bert Wills looks down as he plays an electric guitar outdoors with many motorcycles faded behind him. He wears sunglasses...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bill Kleoppel

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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...

Date Published
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Box with Mojo Nixon stickers on it

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A box with stickers on it for Mojo Nixon's album Otis. Mojo Nixon is a white male psychobilly musician.

Date Published
April-12-1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Carol Duboc

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Carol Duboc, singer and pianist, looks seriously at the camera and folds her hands as wind blows her hair back. Printed in the margin below the...

Date Published
2002
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Carol Smith and Joyce Constant playing guitar and singing

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Carol Smith and Joyce Constant singing and playing guitars in front of microphones at Phoenix Books; an unidentified white woman, possibly Cheryl...

Date Published
1989
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Charlie Musselwhite

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Charlie Musselwhite, a blues harmonica player, guitarist, and singer looks to his left in a close-up, head-shot photograph.

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Charlie Musselwhite and George Myers wearing life preservers

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Charlie Musselwhite, a blues harmonica player, guitarist and singer, stands to the right of George Myers, part owner of the Grand Emporium, as they...

Date Published
January-1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Close up of Jay McShann playing piano and singing in Japan

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Close up of Jay McShann playing piano and singing into a microphone on stage during the Budweiser Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao, Japan; facing the...

Date Published
August-1989
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Close up of Jay McShann playing piano and singing on stage in Japan

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Close up of Jay McShann playing piano and singing into a microphone at the Budweiser Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao, Japan; facing the right of the...

Date Published
August-1989
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Corey Stevens

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Blues guitarist and vocalist Corey Stevens smiles as he holds the neck of a red resonator guitar up by his face in a close-up photograph. He wears a...

Date Published
2003
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Cotton Candy and four unidentified men

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Blues singer Cotton Candy sits in the center of four unidentified white men, all wearing fedora hats. The men sit on the chair's arm rests and on the...

Date Published
May-16-1995
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

Cryout

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Reggae guitarist and vocalist Cryout looks to the right as he plays a guitar over a hand drawn city and night sky background.

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Cryout

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Reggae guitarist and vocalist Cryout looks down and to the right as he plays a guitar over the colors of the Jamaican flag. Printed across the bottom...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

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Member of

  • Grand Emporium Collection (117)
  • GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection (11)
  • Jay McShann Collection (5)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (3)
  • MANA de Kansas City Collection (3)
  • GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection (1)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (140)

Genres

  • Portrait photographs (95)
  • Publicity photographs (39)
  • Group portraits (34)
  • Negatives (29)
  • Snapshots (26)
  • Slides (14)
  • Photocopies (8)
  • Black & white photographs (1)
  • Film transparencies (1)
  • Gelatin silver prints (1)
  • Stereographs (1)
  • (-) Color photographs (141)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (97)
  • 2001-2010 (26)
  • 1981-1990 (25)
  • 1971-1980 (3)
  • 1951-1960 (2)

Subjects

  • Men, White (90)
  • Musicians (59)
  • Ukulele (53)
  • Guitarists (41)
  • Tulips (33)
  • Blues musicians (31)
  • African American men (30)
  • Women, White (28)
  • Microphone (17)
  • African American women (11)
  • Guitar (11)
  • Independent bookstores (11)
  • Lesbians (11)
  • Harmonica players (10)
  • Pianists (10)
  • Women singers (9)
  • Men (8)
  • Bands (Music) (7)
  • Black people (7)
  • Jazz musicians (7)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Management (6)
  • Double bassists (6)
  • Women musicians (6)
  • African American jazz musicians (5)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (5)
  • Funk musicians (5)
  • Rock musicians (5)
  • Shelving for books (5)
  • Banners (4)
  • Books (4)
  • Keyboard players (4)
  • Percussionists (4)
  • Piano (4)
  • Reggae musicians (4)
  • Tukulor (African people) (4)
  • Alcoholic beverages (3)
  • Audiences (3)
  • Bass guitarists (3)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (3)
  • Entertainers (3)
  • Fans (Persons) (3)
  • Hispanic American women (3)
  • Mexican American women (3)
  • Soul musicians (3)
  • Women's History Month (3)
  • Autoharp (2)
  • Blues-rock music (2)
  • Country musicians (2)
  • Country rock music (2)
  • Dinners and dining (2)
  • Eyeglasses (2)
  • Musical instruments (2)
  • Physicians (2)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (2)
  • Saxophonists (2)
  • Show windows (2)
  • Signs and signboards (2)
  • Singing (2)
  • Stained glass windows (2)
  • Windows (2)
  • Women (2)
  • Americana (Music) (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects (1)
  • Beninese (1)
  • Celebrity impersonators (1)
  • Drag queens (1)
  • Drag shows (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • East Asians (1)
  • Ethnic costume (1)
  • Flute players (1)
  • Folk-rock music (1)
  • Gay bars (1)
  • Gay men (1)
  • Gospel musicians (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Hispanic American men (1)
  • Hispanic Americans--Music (1)
  • Hospitals--Employees (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Keyboardists (1)
  • Life preservers (1)
  • Mexican Americans (1)
  • Nigerians (1)
  • Performing arts--Repertoire (1)
  • Psychobilly music (1)
  • Rockabilly musicians (1)
  • Sansevieria trifasciata (1)
  • Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.) (1)
  • Surgeons (1)
  • T-shirts--Social aspects (1)
  • Women entertainers (1)
  • (-) Singers (141)

Subjects, Community

  • LGBTQ+ people (12)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (12)
  • LGBTQ+ events (11)
  • LGBTQ+ musicians (11)
  • White lesbians (11)
  • Women's bookshops (11)
  • Gay liberation (3)
  • LGBTQ+ activism (3)
  • LGBTQ+ activists (3)
  • White gay men (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (69)
  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (2)

Subjects, People

  • Tiny Tim, 1932-1996 (52)
  • Hicks, Bryan (6)
  • Driskill, Joan (5)
  • McShann, Jay (5)
  • Myers, George, -1998 (5)
  • Naber, Roger (5)
  • Maal, Baaba (4)
  • Criner, Jerry Cryout (3)
  • Hart, Alvin Youngblood, 1963- (3)
  • Hill, Rich (Keyboard player) (3)
  • Mullins, Reverdy, 1921-2007 (3)
  • Simpson, Christy (Musician) (3)
  • Smith, Carol (Musician) (3)
  • Washington, Cotton Candy, 1931-2007 (3)
  • Doder, Keith (2)
  • Little Hatch, 1921-2003 (2)
  • Musselwhite, Charlie (2)
  • Severns, Tamara (2)
  • Taj Mahal (Musician) (2)
  • Williams, Hank, III, 1972- (2)
  • Wilson, Linda (Activist) (2)
  • Young, Arnie (Drummer) (2)
  • Allman, Devon, 1972- (1)
  • Anderson, Raymond (Doctor) (1)
  • Austin, Renée (1)
  • Ball, Marcia (1)
  • Ballard, Hank (1)
  • Barfield, Mike (Musician) (1)
  • Berge, Cheryl (1)
  • Bishop, Elvin (1)
  • Blazek, Allan (1)
  • Bonet, Hector (1)
  • Buck, James (Singer) (1)
  • Champlin, Bill (1)
  • Clay, Otis, 1942-2016 (1)
  • Constant, Joyce (1)
  • Coolsbe, Beth (1)
  • Cotton, James, 1935-2017 (1)
  • Dawson, Ronnie (1)
  • Duboc, Carol (1)
  • El Vez (1)
  • Finnigan, Mike (1)
  • Fulcher, Larry (1)
  • Funderburgh, Anson (1)
  • Grover, Terry (1)
  • Hewett, Steph (1)
  • Hudson, Garth (1)
  • Kidjo, Angélique, 1960- (1)
  • Kleoppel, Bill (1)
  • Lang, Jonny (1)
  • LaSalle, Denise (1)
  • Lawrence, Trevor (Trevor Anthony) (1)
  • Little Mary (Blues singer) (1)
  • MacDonald, Jeanette, 1903-1965 (1)
  • Mayer, Peter, 1958- (1)
  • McKinley, Zoe Elaine Burns, 1957-2013 (1)
  • Moore, Dorothy (Vocalist) (1)
  • Myers, Sam, 1936-2006 (1)
  • Myles, Heather, 1962- (1)
  • Nixon, Mojo (1)
  • Obinna, Christogonus, 1947-1999 (1)
  • Pakula, Sidney (1)
  • Paul, John (Blues singer) (1)
  • Pauley, Mieka (1)
  • Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977 (1)
  • Reilly, Mike, 1958- (1)
  • Rocker T. (T. Sorensen) (1)
  • Seely, Clark (1)
  • Shannon, Patrick (Singer) (1)
  • Stevens, Corey (1)
  • Taylor, Joyce (Singer) (1)
  • Taylor, Larry, 1955- (1)
  • Taylor, Sally, 1974- (1)
  • Tumatoe, Duke (1)
  • Veldez (1)
  • Wellington, Valerie (1)
  • Wenner, Mark (1)
  • West, George (Doctor) (1)
  • Williams, Jason D. (1)
  • Wills, Bert, 1953- (1)
  • Wilson, Andrienne (1)
  • Wilson, Kim, 1951- (1)
  • Woodford, David (Saxophonist) (1)

Events

  • National Women's Choral Festival (1989 : Kansas City, Mo.) (4)
  • Budweiser Newport Jazz Festival (1989 : Madarao, Japan) (2)
  • Ultimate Rhythm and Blues Cruise I (1)

Date Published

  • 1994-04-12 (53)
  • 2004 (18)
  • 2000 (14)
  • 2001 (14)
  • 1991 (9)
  • 1989 (8)
  • 1998 (7)
  • 1990 (6)
  • 1985 (5)
  • 1995 (5)
  • 1997 (5)
  • 2003 (5)
  • 1981 (3)
  • 1990-02 (3)
  • 1993-03-20 (3)
  • 1999 (3)
  • 1974-02-09 (2)
  • 1986 (2)
  • 1987-05 (2)
  • 1989-08 (2)
  • 1996 (2)
  • 2002 (2)
  • 1957-08-15 (1)
  • 1959-11 (1)
  • 1975-01-01 (1)
  • 1975-12-31 (1)
  • 1987-07 (1)
  • 1988 (1)
  • 1993-01 (1)
  • 1995-05-16 (1)
  • 1999-03-19 (1)
  • 2010 (1)

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