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Alvin Youngblood Hart

Image

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

Image

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

Angélique Kidjo

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

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

James Cotton performing

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James Cotton, blues harmonica player and singer, closes his eyes tight as he blows into a harmonica in one hand and holds a microphone to the...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

John Hammond

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John Hammond, blues guitarist and singer, smiles in a close-up, head-shot photograph.

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Marcia Ball

Image

Marcia Ball, blues singer and pianist, smiles at the camera in a close-up, head-shot photograph.

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Ronnie Dawson

Image

Ronnie Dawson, rockabilly singer, guitarist and drummer, stands with one hand in his pocket and the other cradling an electric guitar. He wears a...

Date Published
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Singing at the Jewel Box

Image

Unidentified white drag queen singing with outspread arms in front of a microphone on stage at the Jewel Box in Kansas City; she's wearing a strapless...

Date Published
November-1959
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

Tiny Tim

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Tiny Tim, ukulele player and singer, ascends a steep staircase with a an arched ceiling and forms his mouth into an 'O'. An ukulele hangs from a strap...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection
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Member of

  • Grand Emporium Collection (14)
  • GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (15)

Genres

  • Color photographs (14)
  • Portrait photographs (14)
  • Black & white photographs (1)
  • Group portraits (1)
  • (-) Slides (15)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (9)
  • 2001-2010 (7)
  • 1951-1960 (1)

Subjects

  • Guitarists (10)
  • Blues musicians (7)
  • Black people (5)
  • Men, White (5)
  • African American men (4)
  • Men (4)
  • Percussionists (4)
  • Tukulor (African people) (4)
  • Harmonica players (2)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects (1)
  • Beninese (1)
  • Drag queens (1)
  • Drag shows (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Funk musicians (1)
  • Gay bars (1)
  • Gay men (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Rockabilly musicians (1)
  • Soul musicians (1)
  • Ukulele (1)
  • Women (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • (-) Singers (15)

Subjects, Community

  • LGBTQ+ people (1)
  • White gay men (1)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (1)

Subjects, People

  • Maal, Baaba (4)
  • Hart, Alvin Youngblood, 1963- (3)
  • Ball, Marcia (1)
  • Cotton, James, 1935-2017 (1)
  • Dawson, Ronnie (1)
  • Hammond, John, 1942- (1)
  • Kidjo, Angélique, 1960- (1)
  • Musselwhite, Charlie (1)
  • Tiny Tim, 1932-1996 (1)

Date Published

  • 2001 (7)
  • 2000 (5)
  • 2004 (5)
  • 1991 (4)
  • 1995 (2)
  • 1959-11 (1)
  • 1996 (1)
  • 1998 (1)

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