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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

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

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

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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

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

DC Bellamy at the Club Paradox

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DC Bellamy, wearing a fedora and holding a drink, points a finger at a patron seated at a table as he regales them with a story at Club Paradox in...

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

Eddie Saunders and Sonny Kenner at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000

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Eddie Saunders, holding his saxophone on his lap and Sonny Kenner playing a guitar, put their heads together and smile while performing at the Kansas...

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

Elizabeth Starr and Jack Starr at Kansas City Country Club

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Elizabeth Starr and Jack Starr standing in front of the pool at the Kansas City Country Club.

Date Published
2002
Member of
Martha Jane Starr Collection

Emma Starr and Barry Starr at Kansas City Country Club

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Emma Starr and Barry Starr seated at a dinner table at the Kansas City Country Club.

Date Published
March-2002
Member of
Martha Jane Starr 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

Frank and Georgia Xarhis outside the Royal Café

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Frank Xarhis with his arm around his granddaughter, Georgia Xarhis. They're standing outside of the Royal Café and Frank is wearing a full length...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Helen Xarhis-DePasco Collection

Helen, James, Jerry, and Frank Xarhis

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Left to right are Helen Xarhis, her brothers, James Xarhis and Jerry Xarhis, and their grandfather, Frank Xarhis, seated on slanted wooden doorway at...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Helen Xarhis-DePasco Collection

Henry Townsend at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

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Henry Townsend, wearing a bowler hat, suit and striped shoes, sits and looks down at a keyboard he is playing during the Kansas City, Kansas Street...

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

Jack Starr and Elizabeth Starr in background at Kansas City Country Club

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Jack Starr standing in front of the pool with Elizabeth Starr in the background at the Kansas City Country Club.

Date Published
2002
Member of
Martha Jane Starr Collection

Jack Starr, John Philip Starr, and John Robert Starr at Kansas City Country Club

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Jack Starr and John Philip Starr, seated, John Robert Starr, standing, at Kansas City Country Club.

Date Published
June-24-1905
Member of
Martha Jane Starr Collection

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

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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 at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2004

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Jay McShann, left side profile, wearing a ball cap as he sits at a baby grand piano playing for an audience visible behind him during the Kansas City...

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

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Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (36)
  • Martha Jane Starr Collection (7)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (5)
  • Helen Xarhis-DePasco Collection (3)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (2)
  • GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection (1)
  • Walt Bodine Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (55)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (48)
  • Gelatin silver prints (48)
  • Snapshots (15)
  • Portrait photographs (8)
  • Publicity photographs (2)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)
  • Portraits (1)
  • (-) Group portraits (55)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (41)
  • 1941-1950 (3)
  • 1991-2000 (3)
  • 1921-1930 (2)
  • 1931-1940 (2)
  • 1961-1970 (2)
  • 1951-1960 (1)
  • 1971-1980 (1)

Subjects

  • African American men (30)
  • Men, White (24)
  • African American women (22)
  • Women, White (22)
  • Blues musicians (21)
  • Blues festivals (19)
  • Music festivals (17)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (13)
  • Guitarists (13)
  • Singers (13)
  • Music fans (11)
  • Jazz musicians (10)
  • Jazz singers (8)
  • Children, White (7)
  • Families (6)
  • Jazz musicians, White (6)
  • African American jazz musicians (5)
  • Big bands (5)
  • Music audiences (5)
  • Pianists (5)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (4)
  • Girls (4)
  • Harmonica players (4)
  • Promoters (4)
  • Boys (3)
  • Photographers (3)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Band directors (2)
  • Brothers and sisters (2)
  • Children (2)
  • Crowds (2)
  • Dancers (2)
  • Double bassists (2)
  • Grandfathers (2)
  • Keyboard players (2)
  • Swimming pools (2)
  • Architecture, Domestic (1)
  • Authors, American (1)
  • Balloons (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Bisexuals (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Dinners and dining (1)
  • Dogs (1)
  • Dwellings (1)
  • Gay men (1)
  • Gay pride parades (1)
  • Gay rights (1)
  • Glassware (1)
  • Granddaughters (1)
  • Horses (1)
  • Keyboardists (1)
  • Kittens (1)
  • Lesbians (1)
  • Music--Awards--Kansas (1)
  • Parades (1)
  • Pets (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Radio broadcasters (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Stone walls (1)
  • Storytelling (1)
  • Streets (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.) (55)

Subjects, People

  • McKeithen, Marvine (8)
  • Durrett, Warren (5)
  • Rush, Bobby (5)
  • Starr, Jack (5)
  • Bellamy, D. C., 1949- (4)
  • Taylor, Myra (4)
  • McShann, Jay (3)
  • Starr, Elizabeth (3)
  • Starr, John Philip (3)
  • Starr, John Robert (3)
  • Clay, Otis, 1942-2016 (2)
  • Dare, Lou (2)
  • Gilley, Dawayne (2)
  • Little Hatch, 1921-2003 (2)
  • Quarles, Evie (2)
  • Saunders, Eddie (2)
  • Starr, Barry (2)
  • Turner, Julie (Singer) (2)
  • Xarhis, Frank (2)
  • Adair, Jeanette (Resident of Kansas City, Kan.) (1)
  • Adair, Junior (1)
  • Baker, Tom Trashmouth (1)
  • Bodine, Walt, 1920- (1)
  • Britain, Rocky (1)
  • Corbett, Mark (1)
  • Corbett, Sue (Guitarist) (1)
  • DePasco, Helen Xarhis, 1921-1992 (1)
  • Edwards, Millie (1)
  • Foster, Curtyse (1)
  • Fraher, James (1)
  • Garner, Larry (1)
  • Gilbert, Millage (1)
  • Hodge, Aaron (1)
  • Hopkins, Grant Sheffield (Groovy Grant) (1)
  • Humiston, Connie (1)
  • Jackson, Arthur, 1920-2006 (1)
  • Jones, Wallace (Drummer) (1)
  • Kassem, Chad (1)
  • Kassem, Lydia (1)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (1)
  • Knox, Marquise (1)
  • Kovacs, Mike (1)
  • Lespes, Lo (1)
  • Logan, Georgia Xarhis, 1915-2000 (1)
  • Love, Bunnie (Bumps) (1)
  • Maness, Bill (Keyboard player) (1)
  • Massingale, Rudy (1)
  • Mayberry, Joni (1)
  • Naber, Roger (1)
  • Nolan, Bill (Drummer) (1)
  • O'Neal, Jim, 1948- (1)
  • Price, Elmer, 1917-2004 (1)
  • Price, Geneva (1)
  • Saint Charles (Musician) (1)
  • Starr, Emma (1)
  • Townsend, Henry (1)
  • Tucker, Lori (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)
  • Wesley, Lucky (1)
  • Wilson, James Spoon (1)
  • Xarhis, James John, 1924-1992 (1)
  • Xarhis, Jerry John, 1924-1981 (1)

Events

  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2004) (7)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2002) (4)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2006) (3)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2000) (2)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2001) (2)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2008) (2)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2005) (1)

Date Published

  • 2004-03-08 (5)
  • 2004-06-26 (5)
  • 2002-03 (4)
  • 2002-06-29 (4)
  • 1945-08-03 (3)
  • 2001-02-18 (3)
  • 2002-04-08 (3)
  • 1921 (2)
  • 1961-11-03 (2)
  • 2000-06-24 (2)
  • 2002 (2)
  • 2004-02-23 (2)
  • 2006-06-25 (2)
  • 2008-06-28 (2)
  • 1905-06-24 (1)
  • 1925 (1)
  • 1930 (1)
  • 1931 (1)
  • 1933 (1)
  • 1940 (1)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1971 (1)
  • 1980 (1)
  • 1991-06 (1)
  • 2001-06-23 (1)
  • 2001-06-25 (1)
  • 2002-07-08 (1)
  • 2003-11-27 (1)
  • 2004-06-04 (1)
  • 2004-06-25 (1)
  • 2005-06-24 (1)
  • 2006-06-23 (1)

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