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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

James Fraher at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

Myra Taylor wins the best female blues artist from Living Blues Magazine

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Dawayne Gilley stands and seriously hands keys to Jim O'Neal behind the head of a seated and laughing Myra Taylor. Myra is holding two Living Blues...

Date Published
July-21-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Pinetop Perkins and Evie Quarles at the All Star Blues Jam

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Pinetop Perkins leans toward Evie Quarles, seated to his left as both smile at the photographer during the All Stars Blues Jam at Blue Heaven Studios...

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

Rod Piazza, Evie Quarles, and Miss Honey Piazza

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Rod Piazza, wearing sunglasses, sits to the right of Evie Quarles and Miss Honey Piazza sits to Evie's left. All three are smiling at the camera.

Date Published
2001
2010
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Sherman Holmes, Evie Quarles, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon at the Grand Emporium

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Sherman Holmes, Evie Quarles, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon stand side by side with their arms around each other smiling at the photographer in front of...

Date Published
March-10-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Taj Mahal and Evie Quarles at the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise

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Taj Mahal, wearing a straw hat, sunglasses, and holding a cigar in his right hand, sits and smiles at the photographer as Evie Quarles leans down...

Date Published
2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
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Types

  • photographs (16)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (16)
  • Gelatin silver prints (16)
  • Group portraits (14)
  • Portrait photographs (2)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (13)
  • 1991-2000 (3)

Subjects

  • Blues musicians (10)
  • Women, White (9)
  • African American men (7)
  • Men, White (6)
  • Singers (5)
  • African American women (3)
  • Authors, American (3)
  • Guitarists (3)
  • Harmonica players (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Jazz singers (2)
  • Keyboard players (2)
  • Music journalists (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Blues festivals (1)
  • Cameras (1)
  • Music festivals (1)
  • Planners (1)
  • Special events--Management (1)
  • (-) Photographers (16)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (5)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (4)
  • 18th and Vine District (3)
  • Salina (Kan.) (2)
  • Washington Park (Kansas City, Mo.) (2)

Subjects, People

  • Quarles, Evie (9)
  • Fraher, James (5)
  • Gilley, Dawayne (5)
  • O'Neal, Jim, 1948- (3)
  • Piazza, Honey, 1951- (2)
  • Taylor, Myra (2)
  • Bell, Carey, 1936-2007 (1)
  • Brisbin, John Anthony (1)
  • Doakes, Ramonda (1)
  • Gant, L. C. (1)
  • Holmes, Sherman (1)
  • Holmes, Wendell, 1943-2015 (1)
  • Little Iron Jaw Oakley (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Perkins, Pinetop (1)
  • Piazza, Rod (1)
  • Rush, Bobby (1)
  • Taj Mahal (Musician) (1)

Events

  • 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

  • 1999-09-18 (2)
  • 2001 (2)
  • 2002-12-15 (2)
  • 2010 (2)
  • 2000-01-01 (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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