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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

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

Henry Butler, Jay McShann, Bobby Watson, Roger Naber, Claude Fiddler Williams, and Marianne at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Henry Butler, Jay McShann, Bobby Watson, Roger Naber, Claude Fiddler Williams, and Marianne sit and talk during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz...

Date Published
July-20-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Herb Palmer and Roger Naber at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Grand Emporium

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Herb Palmer shakes Roger Naber's hand during the 20th anniversary celebration of one of the juke joints in Kansas City called the Grand Emporium...

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

Julia Naber and Roger Naber at the Grand Emporium

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Julia Naber sits at the bar as Roger Naber stands by her and they smile at the photographer during the last days of the Grand Emporium. An...

Date Published
May-15-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Marvine McKeithen, Otis Clay, Roger Naber, Dawayne Gilley at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002

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Marvine McKeithen, Otis Clay, Roger Naber, Dawayne Gilley stand on the street for a photograph during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-29-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Roger Naber and Julia Naber celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Grand Emporium

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Roger Naber, wearing a suit jacket with animal print cuffs and collar, cuts a 20th Anniversary cake with the outline of his face on it, while Julia...

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

Roger Naber at the Grand Emporium

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Roger Naber smiles at the photographer as he talks on the telephone and sits at his messy desk in his messy office at the Grand Emporium.

Date Published
May-13-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Roger Naber receives the Lee Oskar Award at the 25th anniversary of the Grand Emporium

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An unidentified woman presents a plaque of the Lee Oskar Award to Roger Naber during 25th anniversary of one of the juke joints in Kansas City called...

Date Published
April-24-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Roger Naber, Mary Faith, Brody Buster, and Shannon Curfman at the Grand Emporium

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Brody Buster and Shannon Curfman, national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand next to Roger Naber and Mary Faith in front of the signature...

Date Published
November-15-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
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  • (-) Evie Quarles Collection (11)

Types

  • photographs (11)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (11)
  • Gelatin silver prints (11)
  • Group portraits (9)
  • Portrait photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (7)
  • 2001-2010 (4)

Subjects

  • Men, White (11)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (9)
  • Women, White (6)
  • Promoters (5)
  • African American men (3)
  • Blues musicians (3)
  • African American women (2)
  • Blues festivals (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Harmonica players (2)
  • Music fans (2)
  • Music festivals (2)
  • Singers (2)
  • African American jazz musicians (1)
  • Bartenders (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Jazz festivals (1)
  • Jazz musicians (1)
  • Office furniture (1)
  • Offices (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Violinists (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (10)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Naber, Julia (2)
  • Amazing Grace (Singer) (1)
  • Arnold, Billy Boy (1)
  • Buster, Brody, 1984- (1)
  • Butler, Henry (Pianist) (1)
  • Clay, Otis, 1942-2016 (1)
  • Curfman, Shannon (1)
  • Faith, Mary (Club patron) (1)
  • Gilley, Dawayne (1)
  • Hearne, Christopher, Jr. (1)
  • McKeithen, Marvine (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • McShann, Marianne (1)
  • Palmer, Herb (1)
  • Watson, Bobby, 1953- (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)
  • Wilson, Becky (1)
  • (-) Naber, Roger (11)

Events

  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2000) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2002) (1)

Date Published

  • 1999-04-24 (4)
  • 1999-11-15 (1)
  • 1999-12-28 (1)
  • 2000-07-20 (1)
  • 2002-06-29 (1)
  • 2004-04-24 (1)
  • 2004-05-13 (1)
  • 2004-05-15 (1)

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