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Barney Moss and Buck Clayton in front of Connolly's Star Dust Room

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Barney Moss wearing a camera and holding a flash with Buck Clayton holding his trumpet standing outside of Connolly's Star Dust Room with Buck Clayton...

Date Published
June-1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton and friends

Image

Harry Edison, Buck Clayton, Jo Jones, Nancy Miller Elliot and Freddie Green seated together in Geneva, Switzerland.

Date Published
September-1979
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton listens to Frank Driggs explain

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Buck Clayton listens to Frank Driggs as an unidentified man also listens with tall buildings behind them.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton posing for a photo against a fence

Image

Buck Clayton, leaning on a fence in a three-piece plaid suit and a fedora hat, getting his photograph taken by an unidentified white man.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Count Basie and Nancy Elliott

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Count Basie seated with a cigarette in front a dressing room mirror in which Nancy Elliott can also be seen taking the photo.

Date Published
1982
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Eddie Condon taking a photo in Tokyo

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Eddie Condon taking a snapshot on the street in Tokyo, Japan.

Date Published
March-01-1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Evie Quarles and Bobby Rush at the Thanksgiving Blues Breakfast in Kansas City, KS

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Evie Quarles and Bobby Rush give each other a big side hug as they grin at the photographer during the Thanksgiving Blues Breakfast in Kansas City, KS...

Date Published
November-27-2003
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Evie Quarles and Carey Bell

Image

Evie Quarles and Carey Bell during the All Stars Blues Jam at Blue Heaven Studio in Salina, KS. Evie, glasses resting on her upper forehead, smiles at...

Date Published
December-15-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Evie Quarles and Miss Honey Piazza

Image

Miss Honey Piazza puts her left arm around the shoulders of Evie Quarles. They lean in towards each other so their heads touch. Both are seated and...

Date Published
2001
2010
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Evie Quarles and Myra Taylor at Washington Park in Kansas City, MO

Image

Evie Quarles sits to Myra Taylor's right as Myra puts her left arm around Evie's shoulders at Washington Park in Kansas City, MO. Both are smiling at...

Date Published
August-10-2003
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Exhibition at St. Peters

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A group of people seated during an exhibition of photographs, likely Nancy Miller Elliott's, at St. Peter's Church; New York.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Frank "Iron Jaw" Oakley, L.C. Gant, and Dawayne Gilley at the Grand Emporium

Image

Frank "Iron Jaw" Oakley, L.C. Gant, and Dawayne Gilley are smiling at the photographer from their seats during the Kansas City Blues Society's 20th...

Date Published
December-14-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Frank Driggs and Buck Clayton thinking it through

Image

Frank Driggs looking down as Buck Clayton looks over his left shoulder in front of speakers. Buck where a plaid fedora and a checked suit jacket with...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Herman Sutherland speaking to the groundbreaking's audience

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Herman Sutherland addressing the crowd (two African American men, the rest white women and men) in front of a microphone set up on a make-shift stage...

Date Published
February-06-1968
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Honorary Tar Heel Meeting

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Ted Malone with a group of white men, all laughing, at an Honorary Tar Heel Meeting with Governor Luther Hodges in New York. They stand behind a set...

Date Published
January-21-1956
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

James Fraher at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002

Image

James Fraher, wearing a ball cap and holding a camera to his face, is not visible behind the camera during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues...

Date Published
June-29-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

James Fraher sets up a camera at the Mutual Musicians Foundation Building

Image

James Fraher looks down at a camera he's setting up on a tripod in the doorway of the Mutual Musicians Foundation for the Living Blues Weekend Photo...

Date Published
September-18-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

James Fraher, Ramonda Doakes, John Brisbin, and Dawayne Gilley at Mutual Musicians Foundation Building

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James Fraher, Ramonda Doakes. John Brisbin, Dawayne Gilley stand arm in arm in the doorway of the Mutual Musicians Foundation, 1823 Highland Avenue to...

Date Published
September-18-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Jay McShann and Evie Quarles at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Fest

Image

Jay McShann, wearing a baseball cap, smiles to his left as Evie Quarles leans towards his left shoulder during the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues...

Date Published
June-26-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Jay McShann with Myra Taylor

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Jay McShann leaning in and sharing a laugh with Myra Taylor during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival Media Day; both seated with people seen...

Date Published
July-20-2000
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jim O'Neal, James Fraher, and Dawayne Gilley hold a photograph

Image

Music authors Jim O'Neal and Dawayne Gilley stand on either side of photographer, James Fraher, at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival. All...

Date Published
June-25-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Jim O'Neal, James Fraher, and Dawayne Gilley hold a photograph

Image

Jim O'Neal, James Fraher, and Dawayne Gilley hold The Big Picture which is a photograph from September 18, 1999, of the Kansas City Jazz and Blues...

Date Published
January-01-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Jo Jones, Buck Clayton, Frank Driggs, and a friend in front of the stage

Image

An unidentified white man with his arm around the shoulder of Jo Jones standing next to Buck Clayton, wearing a plaid fedora, a necklace, a sweater...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Louis Armstrong and lilacs

Image

Louis Armstrong, wearing a white helmet of some sort and holding and armful of lilacs arrives in Sweden greeted by a military looking person and...

Date Published
June-10-1965
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Moving a crib into the new building

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Unidentified white male hospital employee moving a crib along the pavement into the new Children's Mercy Hospital building. The crib has medical...

Date Published
December-17-1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

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Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (16)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (10)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (8)
  • Ted Malone Collection (3)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (1)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (39)

Genres

  • Gelatin silver prints (39)
  • Group portraits (31)
  • Snapshots (10)
  • Portrait photographs (4)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)
  • Publicity photographs (1)
  • (-) Black & white photographs (39)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (13)
  • 1961-1970 (8)
  • 1991-2000 (4)
  • 1941-1950 (2)
  • 1951-1960 (1)
  • 1971-1980 (1)

Subjects

  • Men, White (22)
  • Women, White (17)
  • African American men (16)
  • Blues musicians (10)
  • Jazz musicians (10)
  • African American jazz musicians (9)
  • African American women (8)
  • Cameras (8)
  • Singers (5)
  • Trumpet players (5)
  • Children, White (4)
  • Girls (4)
  • Hospitals--Employees (4)
  • African American children (3)
  • Audiences (3)
  • Authors, American (3)
  • Boys (3)
  • Children--Hospital care (3)
  • Costume (3)
  • Crowds (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Guitarists (3)
  • Harmonica players (3)
  • Hospital patients (3)
  • Jazz singers (3)
  • Wheelchairs (3)
  • Ambulances (2)
  • Cartoon characters (2)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (2)
  • Keyboard players (2)
  • Masters of ceremonies (2)
  • Medical instruments and apparatus (2)
  • Music journalists (2)
  • Nurses (2)
  • Parking lots (2)
  • Physicians (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Radio personalities (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • Authors (1)
  • Awnings (1)
  • Band directors (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Bears (1)
  • Blues festivals (1)
  • Bouquets (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Cigarette smokers (1)
  • Dressing rooms (Performing arts) (1)
  • Fences (1)
  • Flowers (1)
  • Governors (1)
  • Handshaking (1)
  • Helmets (1)
  • Hospital administrators (1)
  • Japanese (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Journalists (1)
  • Journalists--Travel (1)
  • Laughter (1)
  • Lilacs (1)
  • Marquees (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Mirrors (1)
  • Music festivals (1)
  • Performance awards (1)
  • Photography--Exhibitions (1)
  • Planners (1)
  • Princes (1)
  • Princesses (1)
  • Special events--Management (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • (-) Photographers (39)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (7)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (4)
  • 18th and Vine District (3)
  • Salina (Kan.) (2)
  • Washington Park (Kansas City, Mo.) (2)
  • Geneva (Switzerland) (1)
  • New York (N.Y.) (1)
  • Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) (1)
  • Tokyo (Japan) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Quarles, Evie (9)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (6)
  • Fraher, James (5)
  • Gilley, Dawayne (5)
  • Driggs, Frank (3)
  • Elliott, Nancy Miller (3)
  • O'Neal, Jim, 1948- (3)
  • Taylor, Myra (3)
  • Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character) (3)
  • Eeyore (Fictitious character) (2)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (2)
  • McShann, Jay (2)
  • Piazza, Honey, 1951- (2)
  • Smull, Ned (2)
  • Alexander, Tom, 1900-1972 (1)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (1)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (1)
  • Bell, Carey, 1936-2007 (1)
  • Belter, Ruth (1)
  • Brisbin, John Anthony (1)
  • Camp, Ray (1)
  • Campbell, Orville (1)
  • Clark, Joe, 1904-1989 (1)
  • Cochran, Hamilton, 1898-1977 (1)
  • Condon, Eddie, 1905-1973 (1)
  • Costa, Joseph, 1904- (1)
  • Dé Lardi, Alfred A. (1)
  • Dickson, Al. G. (Alfred Granbery), 1908-1975 (1)
  • Doakes, Ramonda (1)
  • Dugan, Jay (1)
  • Edison, Harry, 1915-1999 (1)
  • Eisendrath, David, Jr. (1)
  • Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926- (1)
  • Emerson, Bill, (Journalist) (1)
  • Frome, Michael (1)
  • Gant, L. C. (1)
  • Garland, Bob (Robin F.), -1972 (1)
  • Gottlieb, William P. (1)
  • Green, Freddie, 1911-1987 (1)
  • Griffith, Andy, 1926-2012 (1)
  • Hodges, Luther Hartwell, 1898-1974 (1)
  • Holmes, Sherman (1)
  • Holmes, Wendell, 1943-2015 (1)
  • Kirk, Ed (1)
  • Leigman, John (1)
  • Linke, Dick (1)
  • Little Iron Jaw Oakley (1)
  • Lowes, Joseph, 1907- (1)
  • Malone, Ted, 1908-1989 (1)
  • Morton, Hugh M. (1)
  • Moss, Bernie, 1908-1988 (1)
  • Pagano, Mario (Hospital employee) (1)
  • Pagano, Mary (1)
  • Pagano, Mary Jo (1)
  • Perkins, Pinetop (1)
  • Philip, Prince, consort of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1921- (1)
  • Piazza, Rod (1)
  • Rankin, Edward L., 1919-2006 (1)
  • Roberts, Joseph Baylor (1)
  • Rush, Bobby (1)
  • Sharpe, Bill (William Pleasants), 1903-1970 (1)
  • Short, Don, (Journalist) (1)
  • Solomon, Leo (1)
  • Sutherland, Herman R. (1)
  • Taj Mahal (Musician) (1)
  • Tyng, Ed (1)
  • Wulff, Lee, 1905-1991 (1)

Events

  • Honorary Tar Heel Meeting (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2000) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2001) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2002) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2004) (1)

Date Published

  • 1971 (4)
  • 1967-09-08 (3)
  • 1980 (3)
  • 1968-02-06 (2)
  • 1970-12-17 (2)
  • 1981 (2)
  • 1990 (2)
  • 1999-09-18 (2)
  • 2001 (2)
  • 2002-12-15 (2)
  • 2010 (2)
  • 1945 (1)
  • 1949 (1)
  • 1956-01-21 (1)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1964-03-01 (1)
  • 1964-06 (1)
  • 1965-06-10 (1)
  • 1970 (1)
  • 1975 (1)
  • 1979-09 (1)
  • 1982 (1)
  • 2000-01-01 (1)
  • 2000-07-20 (1)
  • 2000-12-14 (1)
  • 2001-06-25 (1)
  • 2002 (1)
  • 2002-06-29 (1)
  • 2002-07-21 (1)
  • 2003-08-10 (1)
  • 2003-11-27 (1)
  • 2004-03-10 (1)
  • 2004-06-26 (1)

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