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'Houserocker' Johnson and the Shadows

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Houserocker' Johnson and the Shadows in a bar. Guitarist Houserocker sits on a piano with his feet on the keys holding an electric blues guitar across...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets featuring Sam Myers

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Anson Funderburgh, blues guitarist, stands farthest to the right holding a guitar. Sam Myers, harmonica player and blues singer, stands in the center...

Date Published
1999
2003
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Badwater

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Badwater, a country band comprised of three Cherokee men and one white man, in a montage photograph of each member playing their instruments. Printed...

Date Published
2000
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Balladiers performing at the Service Awards dinner

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Three young white men, The Balladiers, performing at the Service Awards dinner. One is playing the guitar while all sing. The audience (African...

Date Published
February-19-1964
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Bayou Rhythm

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Bayou Rhythm, a zydeco and blues band comprised of one African American man and four white men, stand holding their instruments.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bettye Miller with friends

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Bettye Miller standing outside the venue her birthday party is being held in with three unidentified African American men and an unidentified white...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, Wallace Jones, and guitarist

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Bettye Miller playing piano on stage with Milt Abel on double bass, Wallace Jones on drums, and an unidentified white man seated and playing guitar...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, Wallace Jones, and guitarist

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Bettye Miller playing piano on stage with Milt Abel on double bass, Wallace Jones on drums, and an unidentified white man seated and playing guitar...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Big Dave and the Ultrasonics

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Big Dave and the Ultrasonics, a blues band comprised of six white men, stand or sit in front of a wall with graffiti painted on it. One holds a guitar...

Date Published
1991
1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Big Mama Thornton seated on stage

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Big Mama Thornton seated on stage during the KPBS Special "Three Generations of the Blues" filmed at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach; she's...

Date Published
1983
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Big Nick and the Gila Monsters

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Big Nick and the Gila Monsters, a blues band comprised of four white men, stand pointing at the photographer. Two electric guitars lie on the floor...

Date Published
1993
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys

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Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Boys, a rockabilly band comprised of five white men, stand together as the man in the center, likely Big Sandy, holds an...

Date Published
1994
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Billy Bacon and the Forbidden Pigs

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Billy Bacon and the Forbidden Pigs, a three piece Americana band comprised of two white men and an Asian American man (possibly), stand holding their...

Date Published
1991
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Blue Rodeo

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Blue Rodeo, a Canadian country rock band comprised of five white men, stick and stand as Bazil Donovan strums an electric guitar. Printed in the...

Date Published
1992
1999
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bluebirds

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The Bluebirds, a rock and roll band comprised of three white men, stand outside in front of a store. The guitarist rests his foot on the guitar case...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Blues Notions

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The Blues Notions, a Kansas City jump blues band comprised of five white men, stand in front of a brick wall. The men on the farthest left and right...

Date Published
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bottle Rockets

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Bottle Rockets, a rock-and-roll band comprised of four white men, lean against a brick wall. The second man holds an electric guitar. Printed in the...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bugs Henderson and the Shuffle Kings

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Bugs Henderson and the Shuffle Kings, a blues band comprised of three white men, are standing on a pile of dirt in front of a factory holding their...

Date Published
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Camaros

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The Camaros, a band comprised of three white men and one white woman, stand in a parking lot of vintage cars. The guitarist holds a guitar. The others...

Date Published
1997
1999
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

Casselberry-Dupreé

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Publicity photo of the reggae folk duo Casselberry-Dupreé: (left to right) Judith Casselberry and Jacque Dupreé. They are each posing with a guitar...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection

Child patients watching an unidentified woman sing and play

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Patients (two white girls, one partially seen child, and an African American boy) watching an unidentified white woman sing and play at the Trench Rat...

Date Published
October-31-1967
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Coffeehouse entertainers

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Group of unidentified people at the Supreme Bean coffeehouse listening to two unidentified entertainers between two large speakers (a white man and an...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Coffeehouse entertainers

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Group of unidentified people at the Supreme Bean coffeehouse listening to two unidentified entertainers between two large speakers (a white man and an...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

CommonbonD with guitars

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Publicity photo of CommonbonD taken from a point above the pair of unidentified white women; both holding guitars.

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection

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Member of

  • Grand Emporium Collection (48)
  • GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection (13)
  • GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection (12)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (10)
  • Jay McShann Collection (8)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (6)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (5)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (1)
  • Ed Dix Collection (1)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (105)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (72)
  • Gelatin silver prints (71)
  • Publicity photographs (61)
  • Snapshots (42)
  • Color photographs (33)
  • Portrait photographs (3)
  • Photocopies (1)
  • (-) Group portraits (105)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (51)
  • 2001-2010 (22)
  • 1981-1990 (20)
  • 1961-1970 (8)
  • 1971-1980 (5)
  • 1941-1950 (3)
  • 1951-1960 (1)

Subjects

  • Men, White (69)
  • Guitarists (55)
  • Bands (Music) (41)
  • Women, White (32)
  • African American men (27)
  • Lesbians (24)
  • Blues musicians (23)
  • Musical instruments (22)
  • African American jazz musicians (20)
  • Jazz musicians (20)
  • African American women (16)
  • Entertainers (16)
  • Musicians (16)
  • Rock musicians (16)
  • Women musicians (16)
  • Women singers (16)
  • Double bass (15)
  • Piano (15)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (12)
  • Pianists (12)
  • Jazz musicians, White (11)
  • Microphone (11)
  • Drum set (10)
  • Singers (10)
  • Audiences (9)
  • Double bassists (8)
  • Independent bookstores (7)
  • Banners (6)
  • Hats (6)
  • Saxophone (6)
  • African American women jazz singers (5)
  • Country musicians (5)
  • Drum (5)
  • Rockabilly musicians (5)
  • Saxophonists (5)
  • Women jazz musicians (5)
  • Women pianists (5)
  • Mandolin (4)
  • Accordion (3)
  • Americana (Music) (3)
  • Asian American men (3)
  • Blues-rock music (3)
  • Buildings (3)
  • Children--Hospital care (3)
  • Electronic piano (3)
  • Gay men (3)
  • Harmonica (3)
  • Hospital beds (3)
  • Hospital patients (3)
  • Jazz singers (3)
  • Signs and signboards (3)
  • Violin (3)
  • Actors (2)
  • Actresses (2)
  • Autoharp (2)
  • Bassists (2)
  • Chekeré (2)
  • Children, White (2)
  • Coffeehouses (2)
  • Community centers (2)
  • Costume (2)
  • Cotton (2)
  • Enslaved persons (2)
  • Festivals (2)
  • Fiddlers (2)
  • Gay rights (2)
  • Harmonica players (2)
  • Male musicians (2)
  • Mandolinists (2)
  • Rock groups (2)
  • Sound--Equipment and supplies (2)
  • Stained glass windows (2)
  • Trombone (2)
  • Windows (2)
  • Zydeco musicians (2)
  • Accordionists (1)
  • African American children (1)
  • African American musicians (1)
  • Antique and classic cars (1)
  • Ants as pets (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Banjo (1)
  • Banjoists (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
  • Bluegrass musicians (1)
  • Books (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Canadians (1)
  • Celebrity impersonators (1)
  • Cherokee Indians (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Clarinet (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Classrooms (1)
  • Comedians (1)
  • Country rock music (1)
  • Flute (1)
  • Flute players (1)
  • Folk musicians (1)
  • Forests and forestry (1)
  • Guiro (1)
  • Halloween costumes (1)
  • Hispanic American men (1)
  • Hospitals--Employees (1)
  • Living rooms (1)
  • Masks (1)
  • Men (1)
  • Musical groups (1)
  • Neon signs (1)
  • Parking lots (1)
  • Parties (1)
  • Punk rock musicians (1)
  • Reggae musicians (1)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (1)
  • Shelving for books (1)
  • Show windows (1)
  • Sofas (1)
  • Surgical plaster casts (1)
  • Swamp pop music (1)
  • Tambourine (1)
  • Television specials (1)
  • Toys (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Vocal groups (1)
  • Washboards (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • Wigs (1)
  • Women entertainers (1)
  • (-) Guitar (105)

Subjects, Community

  • LGBTQ+ musicians (23)
  • LGBTQ+ people (22)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (22)
  • White lesbians (17)
  • LGBTQ+ events (13)
  • Women's bookshops (7)
  • LGBTQ+ activists (6)
  • Gay liberation (5)
  • LGBTQ+ activism (5)
  • African American LGBTQ+ people (4)
  • African-American lesbians (2)
  • Gay pride (2)
  • LGBTQ+ community centres (2)
  • Black lesbians (1)
  • LGBTQ+ people (1)
  • LGBTQ+people (1)
  • LGBTQ+ symbols (1)
  • Rainbow flags (1)
  • White gay men (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (14)
  • Westport (2)
  • Boulder (Colo.) (1)
  • Solana Beach (Calif.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Cheatham, Jeannie (8)
  • Boss, Bob (7)
  • Driskill, Joan (7)
  • McShann, Jay (7)
  • Simpson, Christy (Musician) (7)
  • Smith, Carol (Musician) (6)
  • Baty, Charlie (4)
  • Constant, Joyce (4)
  • Severns, Tamara (4)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (3)
  • Robillard, Duke (3)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (2)
  • Bacon, Billy (Singer) (2)
  • Jones, Wallace (Drummer) (2)
  • Wilson, Linda (Activist) (2)
  • Angus, Matt (1)
  • Aspen, Kristan, 1948- (1)
  • Bakemeyer, Lance (1)
  • Benoit, Tyrin (1)
  • Berge, Cheryl (1)
  • Bohren, Spencer (1)
  • Brown, Clarence, 1924-2005 (1)
  • Casselberry, Judith (1)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (1)
  • Chenier, C. J. (Clayton Joseph), 1957- (1)
  • Crawford, Hank, 1934-2009 (1)
  • Curran, Nick (1)
  • Davidson, Miriam (Musician) (1)
  • Dickerson, Deke (1)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (1)
  • Dupreé, Jacque (1)
  • Earl, Ronnie (1)
  • Foy, Joel (1)
  • Frank, Cindy (Singer) (1)
  • Freekbass (Musician) (1)
  • Funderburgh, Anson (1)
  • Harman, James, 1946- (1)
  • Harrison, George, 1943-2001 (1)
  • Heartwood, Kiya (1)
  • Henderson, Bugs (1)
  • Hoffman, Chris (1)
  • Hovey, Erick (1)
  • Howard, Jacque (1)
  • Hughes, Chuck (1)
  • Johns, Evan (1)
  • Johnson, Jon-Paul (1)
  • Johnson, Luther (1)
  • Johnson, Plas (1)
  • Keelor, Greg (1)
  • Kenyatta, Kamau (Musician) (1)
  • Koch, Lisa (1)
  • Landreth, Sonny (1)
  • MacAuslan, Janna (1)
  • Mahoney, Aaron (1)
  • Majors, Scott (1)
  • McCartney, Paul (1)
  • McGary, Sean (1)
  • McLean, Maurine (1)
  • Melton, Mel (1)
  • Myers, Sam, 1936-2006 (1)
  • Platt, Peggy (1)
  • Popa Chubby (1)
  • Ranson, David (1)
  • Reid, Richard (Bassist) (1)
  • Rocio, Ron (1)
  • Rockin' Dopsie, 1932-1993 (1)
  • Rogers, Lisa (Musician) (1)
  • Rutstein, Sonia (1)
  • Sahm, Doug (1)
  • Simon, Jeff (1)
  • Starr, Ringo (1)
  • Thornton, Big Mama (1)
  • Washington, Cotton Candy, 1931-2007 (1)
  • Wess, Frank, 1922-2013 (1)
  • Williams, Joyce (Singer) (1)

Events

  • Museum of Making Music's Annual Gala (7th : 2009 : Carlsbad, Calif.) (7)
  • National Women's Choral Festival (1989 : Kansas City, Mo.) (4)
  • Western Maryland Blues Festival (2004) (3)
  • Out in Westport (Event : Kansas City, Mo.) (2)

Date Published

  • 2000 (23)
  • 1991 (21)
  • 2004 (9)
  • 1990 (8)
  • 2009-09-26 (7)
  • 1989 (6)
  • 1981 (5)
  • 1993 (5)
  • 1999 (5)
  • 1970 (4)
  • 1994 (4)
  • 1995 (4)
  • 1996 (4)
  • 1997 (4)
  • 1998 (4)
  • 2001 (4)
  • 1971 (3)
  • 1980 (3)
  • 1985 (3)
  • 2003 (3)
  • 2004-03 (3)
  • 1949 (2)
  • 1961 (2)
  • 1967 (2)
  • 1968 (2)
  • 1976 (2)
  • 1988 (2)
  • 1992 (2)
  • 1999-06 (2)
  • 2002 (2)
  • 1941 (1)
  • 1959 (1)
  • 1964-02-19 (1)
  • 1964-09-17 (1)
  • 1967-10-31 (1)
  • 1983 (1)
  • 1983-01 (1)
  • 1986 (1)
  • 1992-03-07 (1)
  • 2006 (1)
  • 2010 (1)

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