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Adam Page at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002

Image

Adam Page, wearing a ball cap, seriously looks forward as he plays electric guitar on stage during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

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

AG at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002

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AG, wearing a fedora, plays a saxophone into a microphone during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

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

Alan Mercer at Club Paradox

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Alan Mercer, wearing a fedora, smokes a cigarette as he leans his back against the outside wall of Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas.

Date Published
July-08-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Allen Monroe at the Kansas City, KS Blues Street Fest

Image

Allen Monroe, keyboards reflected in the lenses of his glasses, wears a Vietnam veteran ball cap and looks directly at the photographer with a...

Date Published
June-24-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bill Carter at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002

Image

Bill Carter, wearing a straw fedora, stands and sings into a microphone as he plays an electric guitar during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues...

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

Blue 88 at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

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Blue 88 Band including Mark and Sue Corbett, smile directly at the photographer as they stand on stage during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues...

Date Published
June-23-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Blue River Ordnance at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2004

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Blue River Ordinance perform on stage at the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-25-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Rush and Lo Lespes at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005

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Bobby Rush, sings into a microphone as Lo Lespes dances during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival, The audience is visible behind Lo.

Date Published
June-24-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Rush and Marvine McKeithen at the Club Paradox

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Marvine McKeithen holds up Bobby Rush's hand and arm as she smiles and speaks into a microphone on the stage at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas...

Date Published
March-08-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Rush and the crowd at Club Paradox

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Bobby Rush is seated to the far right among the crowd at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas.

Date Published
March-08-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Rush at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005

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Bobby Rush stands on stage holding a microphone in his left hand during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-25-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Rush at the Thanksgiving Blues Breakfast

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Bobby Rush, one of the national acts to perform at the Thanksgiving Blues Breakfast in Kansas City, KS, grins as he sings and holds a microphone.

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

Bobby Watson at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2003

Image

Bobby Watson blows into an alto saxophone that has a microphone in front of it during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-28-2003
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Brenda Walker at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002

Image

Brenda Walker, wearing a straw hat, sunglasses, crop top, and denim vest, plays a flute into a microphone during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues...

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

Chick Willis at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005

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Chick Willis, wearing a hat and grimacing while playing an electric guitar during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-25-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Connie Humiston, Bobby Rush, DC Bellamy and Marvine McKeithen at Club Paradox

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Connie Humiston, Bobby Rush and a group of six unidentified people stand behind a seated DC Bellamy. Marvine McKeithen stands beside DC Bellamy at...

Date Published
March-08-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Cotton Candy at Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

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Cotton Candy Washington looks to her left to sing into the microphone as she plays a keyboard during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. An...

Date Published
June-25-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Crowd at Club Paradox

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A crowd stands in Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas.

Date Published
February-18-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Crowd at Club Paradox

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The crowd sits with drinks at or near the bar as the waitress comes toward them with a tray at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas.

Date Published
February-18-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Crowd at Club Paradox

Image

Some of the crowd dances while others sit with drinks in front of the stage at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. A guitarist and a harmonica player...

Date Published
April-08-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Crowd at Club Paradox

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The seated audience smiles from tables decorated with balloons and confetti at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas.

Date Published
July-08-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Crowd at Club Paradox

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A large audience is seated and standing at Club Paradox in Kansas CIty, Kansas.

Date Published
March-08-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

D.C. Bellamy at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002

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D.C. Bellamy, wearing a straw fedora, closes his eyes as he plays a guitar during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

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

Dancers at the Club Paradox

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Four people dancing at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. The band is visible playing on the stage behind the dancers.

Date Published
April-08-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Dancers at the Club Paradox

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Three people dancing in front of the stage with a band on it at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas.

Date Published
April-08-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

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  • Kansas City (Kan.)

Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (87)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (7)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (3)
  • Helen Xarhis-DePasco Collection (3)
  • Walt Bodine Collection (3)
  • GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (104)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (104)
  • Portrait photographs (57)
  • Group portraits (48)
  • Snapshots (11)
  • Portraits (3)
  • Publicity photographs (3)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)
  • (-) Gelatin silver prints (104)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (78)
  • 1991-2000 (10)
  • 1941-1950 (5)
  • 1921-1930 (4)
  • 1931-1940 (2)
  • 1961-1970 (2)
  • 1891-1900 (1)
  • 1951-1960 (1)
  • 1971-1980 (1)

Subjects

  • African American men (70)
  • Blues festivals (64)
  • Blues musicians (64)
  • Music festivals (62)
  • Guitarists (37)
  • Men, White (29)
  • Singers (29)
  • African American women (27)
  • Women, White (22)
  • Jazz musicians (18)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (14)
  • African American jazz musicians (11)
  • Jazz singers (11)
  • Music fans (11)
  • Harmonica players (8)
  • Jazz musicians, White (8)
  • Pianists (8)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (7)
  • Saxophonists (7)
  • Big bands (5)
  • Music audiences (5)
  • Children (4)
  • Children, White (4)
  • Keyboard players (4)
  • Photographers (4)
  • Promoters (4)
  • Band directors (3)
  • Families (3)
  • Girls (3)
  • Architecture, Domestic (2)
  • Bass guitarists (2)
  • Brothers and sisters (2)
  • Crowds (2)
  • Dancers (2)
  • Double bassists (2)
  • Drum set (2)
  • Dwellings (2)
  • Grandfathers (2)
  • Authors, American (1)
  • Automobiles--Models (1)
  • Balloons (1)
  • Berets (1)
  • Bisexuals (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Cameras (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Dogs (1)
  • Flute players (1)
  • Gay men (1)
  • Gay pride parades (1)
  • Gay rights (1)
  • Glassware (1)
  • Granddaughters (1)
  • Horses (1)
  • Keyboardists (1)
  • Kittens (1)
  • Lesbians (1)
  • Mandolinists (1)
  • Music--Awards--Kansas (1)
  • Parades (1)
  • Pets (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Play (1)
  • Radio broadcasters (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Stone walls (1)
  • Storytelling (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Trombone (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Twins (1)
  • Waitresses (1)
  • Women dancers (1)

Subjects, Community

  • Gay liberation (1)
  • Gay pride (1)
  • LGBTQ+ activism (1)
  • LGBTQ+ activists (1)
  • LGBTQ+ events (1)
  • LGBTQ+ people (1)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Oak Street (1)
  • Southmoreland Park (1)
  • (-) Kansas City (Kan.) (104)

Subjects, People

  • McKeithen, Marvine (8)
  • Rush, Bobby (7)
  • Durrett, Warren (6)
  • Bellamy, D. C., 1949- (5)
  • Taylor, Myra (5)
  • Saunders, Eddie (4)
  • Bodine, Walt, 1920- (3)
  • Knox, Marquise (3)
  • McShann, Jay (3)
  • Clay, Otis, 1942-2016 (2)
  • Dare, Lou (2)
  • Fraher, James (2)
  • Garner, Larry (2)
  • Gilbert, Millage (2)
  • Gilley, Dawayne (2)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (2)
  • Little Hatch, 1921-2003 (2)
  • McBeth, Ida (2)
  • Quarles, Evie (2)
  • Sheppard, Lemuel (2)
  • Turner, Julie (Singer) (2)
  • Wilson, James Spoon (2)
  • Xarhis, Frank (2)
  • Adair, Jeanette (Resident of Kansas City, Kan.) (1)
  • Adair, Junior (1)
  • Baker, Tom Trashmouth (1)
  • Bean, Terry (1)
  • Binder, Dennis, 1920- (1)
  • Britain, Rocky (1)
  • Brown, Texas Johnny (1)
  • Carter, Bill (Guitarist) (1)
  • Corbett, Mark (1)
  • Corbett, Sue (Guitarist) (1)
  • Cox, Danny (Musician) (1)
  • DePasco, Helen Xarhis, 1921-1992 (1)
  • Edwards, Honeyboy (1)
  • Edwards, Millie (1)
  • Foster, Curtyse (1)
  • Gadson, Tutti (1)
  • Gant, L. C. (1)
  • Hendricks, Rick (1)
  • Hodge, Aaron (1)
  • Hopkins, Grant Sheffield (Groovy Grant) (1)
  • Humiston, Connie (1)
  • Jackson, Arthur, 1920-2006 (1)
  • Johnson, Ernie (Guitarist) (1)
  • Johnson, J. J. (Blues singer) (1)
  • Jones, Wallace (Drummer) (1)
  • Kassem, Chad (1)
  • Kassem, Lydia (1)
  • King, Willie, 1943-2009 (1)
  • King Alex, 1934-2008 (1)
  • Kovacs, Mike (1)
  • Lane, Jimmy D. (1)
  • Lazy Lester (1)
  • Lespes, Lo (1)
  • Little Iron Jaw Oakley (1)
  • Logan, Georgia Xarhis, 1915-2000 (1)
  • Louisiana Red (1)
  • Love, Bunnie (Bumps) (1)
  • Maness, Bill (Keyboard player) (1)
  • Massingale, Rudy (1)
  • Mayberry, Joni (1)
  • Mercer, Alan (Author) (1)
  • Monroe, Allen (1)
  • Naber, Roger (1)
  • Nolan, Bill (Drummer) (1)
  • O'Neal, Jim, 1948- (1)
  • Page, Adam (Guitarist) (1)
  • Peterie, Karla (1)
  • Price, Elmer, 1917-2004 (1)
  • Price, Geneva (1)
  • Roark, Mike (1)
  • Robinson, Jimmy Lee (1)
  • Saint Charles (Musician) (1)
  • Taylor, C. Jaisson H. (1)
  • Therman, Glen (1)
  • Townsend, Henry (1)
  • Townsend, Richard (Singer) (1)
  • Tucker, Lori (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)
  • Walker, Brenda (Flute player) (1)
  • Washington, Cotton Candy, 1931-2007 (1)
  • Watson, Robert, 1953- (1)
  • Wesley, Lucky (1)
  • Whitney, Marva (1)
  • Williams, Tommy Soul (1)
  • Willis, Chick (1)
  • Wilson, John (1)
  • Xarhis, James John, 1924-1992 (1)
  • Xarhis, Jerry John, 1924-1981 (1)

Events

  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2002) (17)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2004) (12)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2006) (12)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2000) (7)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2005) (7)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2001) (4)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2003) (4)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2008) (4)

Date Published

  • 2002-06-29 (17)
  • 2000-06-24 (9)
  • 2006-06-25 (8)
  • 2004-06-26 (7)
  • 2005-06-25 (6)
  • 2004-03-08 (5)
  • 1921 (4)
  • 1945-08-03 (4)
  • 2001-02-18 (4)
  • 2003-06-28 (4)
  • 2008-06-28 (4)
  • 1925 (3)
  • 2001-06-23 (3)
  • 2002-04-08 (3)
  • 2004-06-25 (3)
  • 2006-06-23 (3)
  • 1961-11-03 (2)
  • 2002-07-08 (2)
  • 2003-11-27 (2)
  • 2004-02-23 (2)
  • 1891 (1)
  • 1900 (1)
  • 1930 (1)
  • 1931 (1)
  • 1933 (1)
  • 1940 (1)
  • 1941 (1)
  • 1950 (1)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1971 (1)
  • 1980 (1)
  • 1991-06 (1)
  • 2001-06-25 (1)
  • 2004-05-18 (1)
  • 2004-06-04 (1)
  • 2005-06-24 (1)
  • 2006-06-24 (1)

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