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Alberta Adams and Johnnie Bassett at the W.C. Handy Awards

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Alberta Adams sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand while Johnnie Bassett stands next to her, wearing a flat cap, smiling, and playing a...

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

Alberta Adams at the W.C. Handy Awards

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Alberta Adams, wearing sunglasses, sits and talks on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards.

Date Published
May-24-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Ann Rabson at the W.C. Handy Awards

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Ann Rabson looks out over the keyboard she is playing and sings into a microphone on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards. A drum set and...

Date Published
May-25-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bernard Allison at the W.C. Handy Awards

Image

Bernard Allison, wearing a cowboy hat with a wide hat band, smiles at the photographer as he plays an electric guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for...

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

Bob Margolin at the W.C. Handy Awards

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Bob Margolin, wearing sunglasses, stands behind a microphone and grins as he plays an electric guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy...

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

Deborah Coleman at the W.C. Handy Awards

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Deborah Coleman looks at the neck of an electric guitar she is playing on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards.

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

Duke Robillard at the W.C. Handy Awards

Image

Duke Robillard, wearing sunglasses and a fedora, looks at the neck of a guitar he plays on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards.

Date Published
May-24-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Eddie Shaw at the W.C. Handy Awards

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Eddie Shaw, wearing a straw fedora, closes his eyes as he stands behind a microphone and blows into a tenor saxophone that has a microphone pointed as...

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

Johnnie Bassett at the W.C. Handy Awards

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Johnnie Bassett, wearing an flat cap, looks to his left as he fastens a capo to the neck of a guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy...

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

Mojo Buford at the W.C. Handy Awards

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Mojo Buford, from the left, wearing a leather fedora, closes his eyes as he blows into an amplified harmonica he clutches in his hands on Beale Street...

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

Pinetop Perkins and Bob Margolin at the W.C. Handy Awards

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Pinetop Perkins, wearing a fedora with a flower in the hat band, looks seriously down at the keys he is playing. Bob Margolin wearing sunglasses also...

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

Robert Lockwood, Jr. at the W.C. Handy Awards

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Robert Lockwood Jr., wearing a fedora, listens intently to an unidentified African American woman across the table from him. An unidentified African...

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

Tracy Nelson at the W.C. Handy Awards

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Tracy Nelson looks down to her left and laughs as she holds a drink in her right hand on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards.

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

Vesti Jackson at the W.C. Handy Awards

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Vesti Jackson, from below, looks intensely at both of his hands playing the neck of an electric guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy...

Date Published
May-24-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Walter Wolfman Washington at the W.C. Handy Awards

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Walter "Wolfman" Washington, wearing a baseball cap backwards, looks down at the neck of an electric guitar he is playing as he stands behind a...

Date Published
May-28-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
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  • Beale Street (Memphis, Tenn.)

Member of

  • (-) Evie Quarles Collection (15)

Types

  • photographs (15)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (15)
  • Gelatin silver prints (15)
  • Portrait photographs (12)
  • Group portraits (3)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (11)
  • 2001-2010 (4)

Subjects

  • Blues musicians (15)
  • Guitarists (10)
  • African American men (9)
  • African American women (4)
  • Men, White (4)
  • Singers (4)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Harmonica players (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Trombonists (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • (-) Beale Street (Memphis, Tenn.) (15)

Subjects, People

  • Adams, Alberta (2)
  • Bassett, Johnnie (2)
  • Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958 (2)
  • Allison, Bernard (1)
  • Buford, Mojo, 1929-2011 (1)
  • Coleman, Deborah, 1956- (1)
  • Jackson, Vesti (1)
  • Lockwood, Robert Jr., 1915-2006 (1)
  • Margolin, Bob (1)
  • Margolin, Robert (1)
  • Nelson, Tracy (1)
  • Perkins, Pinetop (1)
  • Rabson, Ann (1)
  • Robillard, Duke (1)
  • Shaw, Eddie, 1937-2018 (1)
  • Washington, Walter (1)

Date Published

  • 1999-05-28 (11)
  • 2001-05-24 (3)
  • 2001-05-25 (1)

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