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Blanche Williams sits in the Blue Room

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Blanche Williams looks to the left side of the photograph as she speaks to someone who out of the photograph. She sits in the Blue Room in the...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams 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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams enjoying himself in the Blue Room

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits at a table on the lower level of the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams 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

Fans of jazz music and Claude "Fiddler" Williams fill the Blue Room

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The Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri is full of fans of jazz music on the occasion of...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Fans of jazz music sit at the bar of the Blue Room

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Five fans of jazz music sit at the bar of the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri. The date,...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Fans of jazz music sit in a crowded Blue Room

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The audience (both white people and African Americans) sits at tables or stands at museum exhibits in a crowded Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Marvine McKeithen at Club Paradox

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Marvine McKeithen speaks into a microphone with a band behind her at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. The crowd is seated at the bar or at tables...

Date Published
February-23-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Midget Hulett at the Grand Emporium

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Midget Hulett dances in an animal print dress at the Grand Emporium. The crowd is visible seated behind her.

Date Published
October-01-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
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  • African American women
  • Music audiences

Member of

  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (5)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (4)

Types

  • photographs (9)

Genres

  • Group portraits (8)
  • Color photographs (5)
  • Black & white photographs (4)
  • Gelatin silver prints (4)
  • Portrait photographs (2)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (4)

Subjects

  • Music fans (7)
  • African American men (6)
  • Men, White (6)
  • Women, White (4)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (3)
  • Blues musicians (3)
  • Musicians' spouses (2)
  • African American jazz musicians (1)
  • Blues festivals (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Jazz musicians (1)
  • Music festivals (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Waitresses (1)
  • Women dancers (1)
  • (-) African American women (9)
  • (-) Music audiences (9)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (6)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (3)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Blanche Fouse (2)
  • Hulett, Midget (1)
  • Lespes, Lo (1)
  • McKeithen, Marvine (1)
  • Pearson, Al (1)
  • Rush, Bobby (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)

Events

  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2005) (1)

Date Published

  • 2001-02-19 (5)
  • 2001-02-18 (1)
  • 2002-10-01 (1)
  • 2004-02-23 (1)
  • 2005-06-24 (1)

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