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Alan Mercer at Club Paradox

Image

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

Amazing Grace and Roger Naber at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Grand Emporium

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Amazing Grace walks towards Roger Naber, wearing a suit jacket with animal print cuffs and collar, with open arms during the 20th anniversary...

Date Published
April-24-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Becky Wilson, Christopher Hearne, Jr., and Roger Naber at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Grand Emporium

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Becky Wilson and Christopher Hearne, Jr. present Roger Naber, wearing a suit jacket with animal print cuffs and collar, a certificate during the 20th...

Date Published
April-24-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bill Carter's Blues Revue at the Grand Emporium

Image

Bill Carter's Blues Revue, a blues band, sit or stand in front of a wall of signatures and smile or look solemnly at the photographer at the Grand...

Date Published
September-30-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Billy Boy Arnold and Roger Naber at the Grand Emporium

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Billy Boy Arnold, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, sits at the bar next to the owner, Roger Naber. Both smile at the...

Date Published
December-28-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Carson at the Grand Emporium

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Bobby Carson on stage, speaks into a microphone looking left with a keyboard player, drummer, and guitarist behind him. A large crowd is in front of...

Date Published
May-30-2004
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

Bruce Iglauer, Tom Baker, Connie Humiston, and Brenda Haskins at the Grand Emporium

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Recording executive Bruce Iglauer, with Tom Baker, Connie Humiston, and Brenda Haskins, smile at the photographer as they gather at the bar at the...

Date Published
May-19-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Carl Weathersby at the Grand Emporium

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Carl Weathersby stands in the middle of the audience playing his guitar at the Grand Emporium.

Date Published
February-03-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Cobalt Project at the Grand Emporium

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The blues band, Cobalt Project Band, which includes: Branden Hudspeth, Sue Stubbs, Jan Faircloth, Paul Greenlease. Standing inside the Grand Emporium...

Date Published
January-09-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Cobalt Project at the Grand Emporium

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The blues band, Cobalt Project, including Brandon Hudspeth, closing his eyes and playing the guitar, Jan Faircloth, playing the drums, Sue Stubbs...

Date Published
January-11-2001
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

Connie Humiston, Lou Dare, Brenda Haskins, and Frank Hicks at Knuckleheads Saloon

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Frank Hicks, owner of Knuckleheads Saloon, looks to his left at Lou Dare who is speaking into a microphone from the stage. Frank is holding up a t...

Date Published
March-16-2006
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

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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

Dancer at the Grand Emporium

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An unidentified African American man smiles down to his left as he dances at the Grand Emporium. The crowd is visible behind him.

Date Published
August-31-2002
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

Dancers at the Grand Emporium

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LaDonna Jones and J. Allen, wearing summer attire, dance at the Grand Emporium. Other bar patrons can be seen behind them.

Date Published
September-07-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Dancers at the Grand Emporium

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Ben Pruett dips an unidentified white woman while dancing at the Grand Emporium. There are other dancing couples visible behind them.

Date Published
January-24-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Dancers at the Grand Emporium

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Ben Pruett dancing with an unidentified white woman, spinning her around, skirt twirling, at the Grand Emporium.

Date Published
January-14-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

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  • (-) Evie Quarles Collection (45)

Types

  • photographs (45)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (44)
  • Gelatin silver prints (44)
  • Group portraits (36)
  • Portrait photographs (7)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (33)
  • 1991-2000 (12)

Subjects

  • Men, White (29)
  • Music fans (25)
  • Women, White (24)
  • African American men (20)
  • Blues musicians (15)
  • African American women (13)
  • Guitarists (10)
  • Dancers (9)
  • Singers (9)
  • Music audiences (6)
  • Bartenders (4)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Harmonica players (3)
  • Promoters (3)
  • Double bassists (2)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Balloons (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Office furniture (1)
  • Offices (1)
  • Overalls (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (1)
  • Storytelling (1)
  • Waitresses (1)
  • (-) Bars (Drinking establishments) (45)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (30)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (14)

Subjects, People

  • Naber, Roger (9)
  • McKeithen, Marvine (4)
  • Faith, Mary (Club patron) (3)
  • Humiston, Connie (3)
  • Rush, Bobby (3)
  • Bellamy, D. C., 1949- (2)
  • Faircloth, Jan (2)
  • Greenlease, Paul (2)
  • Haskins, Brenda (2)
  • Hudspeth, Brandon (2)
  • Naber, Julia (2)
  • Pruett, Ben (2)
  • Stubbs, Sue (Guitarist) (2)
  • Albertson, John (Bartender) (1)
  • Allen, J. (Club patron) (1)
  • Amazing Grace (Singer) (1)
  • Arnold, Billy Boy (1)
  • Baker, Tom Trashmouth (1)
  • Buster, Brody, 1984- (1)
  • Carson, Bobby (Blues guitarist) (1)
  • Curfman, Shannon (1)
  • Dare, Lou (1)
  • DeMent, Iris (1)
  • Garner, Larry (1)
  • Hearne, Christopher, Jr. (1)
  • Hicks, Frank (Bar owner) (1)
  • Holmes, Sherman (1)
  • Holmes, Wendell, 1943-2015 (1)
  • Iglauer, Bruce, 1947- (1)
  • Jones, LaDonna (1)
  • Mercer, Alan (Author) (1)
  • Moore, Mary (1)
  • Palmer, Herb (1)
  • Weathersby, Carl (1)
  • Wilson, Becky (1)

Date Published

  • 2004-03-08 (5)
  • 1999-04-24 (4)
  • 2004-05-15 (4)
  • 2002-04-08 (3)
  • 2001-02-18 (2)
  • 2002-07-08 (2)
  • 2002-09-07 (2)
  • 2004-02-23 (2)
  • 1997-10-30 (1)
  • 1999-01-14 (1)
  • 1999-01-24 (1)
  • 1999-02-16 (1)
  • 1999-11-15 (1)
  • 1999-12-28 (1)
  • 2000-09-30 (1)
  • 2000-12-17 (1)
  • 2001-01-11 (1)
  • 2001-02-03 (1)
  • 2002-01-09 (1)
  • 2002-04-05 (1)
  • 2002-08-31 (1)
  • 2002-09-05 (1)
  • 2002-11-14 (1)
  • 2004-04-24 (1)
  • 2004-05-13 (1)
  • 2004-05-19 (1)
  • 2004-05-30 (1)
  • 2006-03-16 (1)
  • 2006-09-07 (1)

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