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

Image

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

B.B. Queen

Image

B.B. Queen, an African American female blues guitarist, promotional photograph front and back.

Date Published
1997
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

B.B. Queen- back

Image

B.B. Queen is a blues guitarist and singer. A publicity sheet printed on the back of her publicity photograph. Five paragraphs of biographical and...

Date Published
1997
2000
Member of
B.B. Queen

B.B. Queen- front

Image

Front of a publicity photograph for B.B. Queen, blues guitarist, who looks down at the neck of a Fender electric guitar and smiles as she plays...

Date Published
1997
2000
Member of
B.B. Queen

Bettye Miller with friends

Image

Bettye Miller standing outside the venue her birthday party is being held in with three unidentified African American men and an unidentified white...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, Wallace Jones, and guitarist

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on stage with Milt Abel on double bass, Wallace Jones on drums, and an unidentified white man seated and playing guitar...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, Wallace Jones, and guitarist

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on stage with Milt Abel on double bass, Wallace Jones on drums, and an unidentified white man seated and playing guitar...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Big Mama Thornton seated on stage

Image

Big Mama Thornton seated on stage during the KPBS Special "Three Generations of the Blues" filmed at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach; she's...

Date Published
1983
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Bobby "Blue" Bland, Denise LaSalle, Buddy Guy, Robert Jr. Lockwood

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A promotional sheet of four portrait photographs of African American blues musicians. From the top left, Bobby "Blue" Bland; top right, Denise LaSalle...

Date Published
1991
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Coffeehouse entertainers

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Group of unidentified people at the Supreme Bean coffeehouse listening to two unidentified entertainers between two large speakers (a white man and an...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Coffeehouse entertainers

Image

Group of unidentified people at the Supreme Bean coffeehouse listening to two unidentified entertainers between two large speakers (a white man and an...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Connie Humiston, Bobby Rush, DC Bellamy and Marvine McKeithen at Club Paradox

Image

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

Cotton Candy and So Many Men

Image

Cotton Candy & So Many Men, a blues band from Kansas City comprised of one African American woman, one African American man, and four white men, sit...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Cotton Candy at Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

Image

Cotton Candy Washington looks to her left to sing into the microphone as she plays a keyboard during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. An...

Date Published
June-25-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Crowd at Club Paradox

Image

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

Deborah Coleman

Image

Blues guitarist Deborah Coleman looks down at an electric guitar she is playing. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Deborah Coleman. Blind...

Date Published
1997
2002
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Deborah Coleman

Image

Blues guitarist Deborah Coleman hugs an electric guitar to her body. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Photo: Pat Johnson. Deborah Coleman...

Date Published
1997
2002
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Deborah Coleman at the Grand Emporium

Image

Deborah Coleman, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes her eyes and smiles as she plays an electric guitar.

Date Published
December-12-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Deborah Coleman at the W.C. Handy Awards

Image

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

Deke Dickerson

Image

Rockabilly guitarist Deke Dickerson stands holding two guitars whose bodies are resting at his feet and he steadies them by the necks. Three women sit...

Date Published
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Forest photo

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Unidentified group of women musicians (three white, one African American) posing in a line of descending height in a forest; carrying their...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection

Gathering of musicians outside Mutual Musicians Foundation building

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(Top row) Luqman Hamza, unidentified, Orestie "Rusty" Tucker, unidentified, unidentified, (second row from top) unidentified, Sonny Kenner, Everette...

Date Published
September-18-1999
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Gaye Adegbalola at the Grand Emporium

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Gaye Adegbalola from "Saffire the Uppity Blues Women". One of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes her eyes and shrugs her...

Date Published
April-15-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Group photo with Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham

Image

Group photo of a group of jazz musicians sitting for a formal portrait and including Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham; Jimmy is holding his trombone and...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Group playing at 18th and Vine

Image

Myra Taylor is seated in a wheelchair and singing into a microphone with her eyes closed. Sonny Kenner is standing to her left and also singing into a...

Date Published
September-16-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

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Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (21)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (14)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (5)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (4)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (3)
  • GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection (3)
  • B.B. Queen (2)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (1)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (1)
  • GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection (1)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (56)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (39)
  • Gelatin silver prints (39)
  • Group portraits (38)
  • Color photographs (16)
  • Portrait photographs (16)
  • Publicity photographs (15)
  • Snapshots (14)
  • Photocopies (4)
  • Negatives (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (24)
  • 2001-2010 (18)
  • 1981-1990 (7)
  • 1971-1980 (4)
  • 1941-1950 (2)
  • 1951-1960 (1)

Subjects

  • African American men (33)
  • Blues musicians (30)
  • Singers (17)
  • African American jazz musicians (16)
  • Guitar (16)
  • Jazz musicians (16)
  • Men, White (16)
  • Pianists (14)
  • Women, White (11)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (10)
  • Double bassists (8)
  • Jazz musicians, White (8)
  • Jazz singers (8)
  • Saxophonists (8)
  • Musical instruments (6)
  • Piano (6)
  • Bands (Music) (5)
  • Blues festivals (5)
  • Entertainers (5)
  • Harmonica players (5)
  • Music festivals (5)
  • Audiences (4)
  • Double bass (4)
  • Trumpet players (4)
  • Bass guitarists (3)
  • Drum set (3)
  • Keyboard players (3)
  • Lesbians (3)
  • Promoters (3)
  • Trombonists (3)
  • Actors (2)
  • Actresses (2)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (2)
  • Coffeehouses (2)
  • Cotton (2)
  • Drum (2)
  • Enslaved persons (2)
  • Gay men (2)
  • Harmonica (2)
  • Mandolinists (2)
  • Microphone (2)
  • Music fans (2)
  • Musicians (2)
  • Saxophone (2)
  • Sound--Equipment and supplies (2)
  • Trombone (2)
  • African American musicians (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Books (1)
  • Bowler hats (1)
  • Forests and forestry (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Independent bookstores (1)
  • Mandolin (1)
  • Neon signs (1)
  • Organists (1)
  • Percussionists (1)
  • Performance artists (1)
  • Radio broadcasters (1)
  • Railroad tracks (1)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (1)
  • Rockabilly musicians (1)
  • Shelving for books (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Tambourine (1)
  • Teenage boys (1)
  • Television specials (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Vests (1)
  • Wake services (1)
  • Windows (1)
  • Women's History Month (1)
  • Women artists (1)
  • Women singers (1)
  • (-) African American women (56)
  • (-) Guitarists (56)

Subjects, Community

  • LGBTQ+ events (3)
  • LGBTQ+ musicians (3)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (3)
  • African American LGBTQ+ people (2)
  • LGBTQ+ people (2)
  • Gay liberation (1)
  • LGBTQ+ activism (1)
  • LGBTQ+ activists (1)
  • LGBTQ+people (1)
  • White lesbians (1)
  • Women's bookshops (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (13)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (7)
  • Beale Street (Memphis, Tenn.) (3)
  • 18th and Vine District (2)
  • Chicago (Ill.) (1)
  • Solana Beach (Calif.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Coleman, Deborah, 1956- (4)
  • McKeithen, Marvine (4)
  • Taylor, Myra (4)
  • Bellamy, D. C., 1949- (3)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (3)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (3)
  • Queen, B. B. (3)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (2)
  • Adegbalola, Gaye (2)
  • Barefield, A. Spencer (2)
  • Bey, Taslimah (2)
  • Boss, Bob (2)
  • Clay, Otis, 1942-2016 (2)
  • Gilbert, Millage (2)
  • Hayden, Marion (2)
  • Jones, Wallace (Drummer) (2)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (2)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (2)
  • Lockwood, Robert Jr., 1915-2006 (2)
  • McShann, Jay (2)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (2)
  • Washington, Cotton Candy, 1931-2007 (2)
  • Adams, Alberta (1)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (1)
  • Angelou, Maya (1)
  • Baker, Tom Trashmouth (1)
  • Bassett, Johnnie (1)
  • BIssonette, Big Bill (1)
  • Blackman, Wes (1)
  • Bland, Bobby (1)
  • Blaze (1)
  • Brooks, Ronnie Baker (1)
  • Cassone, Cyd (1)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (1)
  • Clearwater, Eddy (1)
  • Copeland, Shemekia (1)
  • Crawford, Johnny, 1946-2021 (1)
  • Dare, Lou (1)
  • DeVan, Everette, 1950- (1)
  • Dickerson, Deke (1)
  • Faye, Andra (1)
  • Foster, Ruthie (1)
  • Gabriel, Charlie, 1932- (1)
  • Gilley, Dawayne (1)
  • Gilmore, Mark (1)
  • Go-Go Ray (1)
  • Guy, Buddy (1)
  • Hamza, Luqman (1)
  • Hemphill, Jessie Mae (1)
  • Herbert, Jim (1)
  • Hodge, Aaron (1)
  • Hopkins, Grant Sheffield (Groovy Grant) (1)
  • Humiston, Connie (1)
  • Hypolite, Harry (1)
  • Jackson, Arthur, 1920-2006 (1)
  • Jones, Jeff (Keytarist) (1)
  • King, B. B. (1)
  • King Alex, 1934-2008 (1)
  • Kovacs, Mike (1)
  • LaSalle, Denise (1)
  • Leslie, Tyson (1)
  • Little Hatch, 1921-2003 (1)
  • Mayberry, Joni (1)
  • McMorris, Lois LadyMac (1)
  • Naber, Roger (1)
  • Nash, Monny (1)
  • Peterie, Karla (1)
  • Powell, Godfrey (1)
  • Rabson, Ann (1)
  • Reid, Richard (Bassist) (1)
  • Renée, Robin, 1966- (1)
  • Roark, Mike (1)
  • Robinson, George (Trumpet player) (1)
  • Rush, Bobby (1)
  • Satterwhite, Renee (1)
  • Saunders, Eddie (1)
  • Shell, Linda (Singer) (1)
  • Smith, Phil (Bassist) (1)
  • Taylor, Koko (1)
  • Thompson, Ron (Guitarist) (1)
  • Thornton, Big Mama (1)
  • Thuston-Brown, Cora Pearl, 1927-2011 (1)
  • Walker, Phillip, 1937-2010 (1)
  • Wellington, Valerie (1)
  • Wilkerson, Dave (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)
  • Wilson, James Spoon (1)
  • Wright, Lawrence (Blues singer) (1)
  • Young, Zora, 1948- (1)

Events

  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2002) (3)
  • Museum of Making Music's Annual Gala (7th : 2009 : Carlsbad, Calif.) (2)
  • Acoustic Blues Showcase (7th : 2000 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2001) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2006) (1)

Date Published

  • 2000 (9)
  • 1991 (6)
  • 1997 (6)
  • 1980 (3)
  • 1999-05-28 (3)
  • 2002 (3)
  • 2002-06-29 (3)
  • 1949 (2)
  • 1971 (2)
  • 1981 (2)
  • 1990 (2)
  • 2001-04-12 (2)
  • 2004 (2)
  • 2009-09-26 (2)
  • 1958 (1)
  • 1959 (1)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1970 (1)
  • 1976 (1)
  • 1983 (1)
  • 1983-01 (1)
  • 1984 (1)
  • 1986-08 (1)
  • 1987-02 (1)
  • 1993-03-20 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • 1998-12-12 (1)
  • 1999-09-18 (1)
  • 1999-11-18 (1)
  • 2000-04-15 (1)
  • 2000-07-07 (1)
  • 2000-08-26 (1)
  • 2000-09-16 (1)
  • 2001 (1)
  • 2001-06-23 (1)
  • 2001-07-06 (1)
  • 2002-02-28 (1)
  • 2002-04-08 (1)
  • 2004-03-08 (1)
  • 2006-06-25 (1)
  • 2006-12-14 (1)
  • 2007-07-17 (1)

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