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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

Blue 88 at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

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Blue 88 Band including Mark and Sue Corbett, smile directly at the photographer as they stand on stage during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues...

Date Published
June-23-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles 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

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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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

DC Bellamy at the Club Paradox

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DC Bellamy, wearing a fedora and holding a drink, points a finger at a patron seated at a table as he regales them with a story at Club Paradox in...

Date Published
March-08-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Ernie Johnson at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2004

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Ernie Johnston stands on stage playing an electric guitar during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-25-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Helen, James, Jerry, and Frank Xarhis

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Left to right are Helen Xarhis, her brothers, James Xarhis and Jerry Xarhis, and their grandfather, Frank Xarhis, seated on slanted wooden doorway at...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Helen Xarhis-DePasco Collection

Jack Starr, John Philip Starr, and John Robert Starr at Kansas City Country Club

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Jack Starr and John Philip Starr, seated, John Robert Starr, standing, at Kansas City Country Club.

Date Published
June-24-1905
Member of
Martha Jane Starr Collection

James Fraher at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002

Image

James Fraher, wearing a ball cap and holding a camera to his face, is not visible behind the camera during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues...

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

Jim O'Neal, James Fraher, and Dawayne Gilley hold a photograph

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Music authors Jim O'Neal and Dawayne Gilley stand on either side of photographer, James Fraher, at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival. All...

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

John Robert Starr and Jack Starr at Kansas City Country Club

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John Robert Starr and Jack Starr at a family dinner at the Kansas City Country Club.

Date Published
March-2002
Member of
Martha Jane Starr Collection

Larry Garner at Club Paradox

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Larry Garner, wearing a fedora, closes his eyes as he plays the guitar at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. An unidentified white male keyboard...

Date Published
February-18-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Lou Dare, Saint Charles, and Myra Taylor at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2008

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Lou Dare and Saint Charles, dressed in medieval clothing, stand behind Myra Taylor, also wearing medieval clothing and a crown, in a wheelchair during...

Date Published
June-28-2008
Member of
Evie Quarles 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

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

Mike Kovacs, Marvine McKeithen, Lou Dare, Tom Baker, Otis Clay, DC Bellamy, Groovie Grant, and Aaron Hodge at the Street Blues Festival 2002

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Mike Kovacs, Marvine McKeithen, Lou Dare, Tom Baker, Otis Clay, DC Bellamy, Groovy Grant, and Aaron Hodge stand on the street laughing and looking at...

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

Mike Roark at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005

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Mike Roark of the band, Rain Dogs, wearing sunglasses, looks down at a keyboard he is playing during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-25-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor, Lydia, Chad and Jasmin Kassem at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2008

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Lydia Kassem stands behind as Chad Kassem kneels beside, holding Jasmin Kassem, Myra Taylor all dressed up and sitting in a wheelchair during the...

Date Published
June-28-2008
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Portrait of unidentified trombone player

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Portrait of unidentified white male trombone player in suit and tie, wearing glasses, holding instrument.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Pride parade along Oak Street

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Pride parade along Oak Street between Southmoreland Park and the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art; on the way to the GALA '91 Picnic in Southmoreland Park...

Date Published
June-1991
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Rick Hendricks at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000

Image

Rick Hendricks, wearing a Hawaiian print shirt, smiles to his left as he holds the neck high of an electric guitar he is playing during the Kansas...

Date Published
June-24-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Singers performing with Warren Durrett orchestra at the North American Aviation bomber plant

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Low-angle shot of an unidentified white woman singer and an unidentified white man with his arm around her waist, both singing into a microphone in...

Date Published
August-03-1945
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

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Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (20)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (7)
  • Martha Jane Starr Collection (2)
  • GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection (1)
  • Helen Xarhis-DePasco Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (31)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (29)
  • Gelatin silver prints (29)
  • Group portraits (24)
  • Portrait photographs (9)
  • Snapshots (8)
  • Publicity photographs (3)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (21)
  • 1941-1950 (5)
  • 1961-1970 (2)
  • 1991-2000 (2)
  • 1931-1940 (1)

Subjects

  • Women, White (17)
  • African American women (11)
  • African American men (10)
  • Blues festivals (10)
  • Blues musicians (10)
  • Music festivals (10)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (8)
  • Guitarists (8)
  • Jazz musicians (8)
  • Jazz musicians, White (8)
  • Singers (8)
  • Music fans (7)
  • Jazz singers (6)
  • Big bands (5)
  • Children, White (4)
  • Families (4)
  • Band directors (3)
  • Music audiences (3)
  • Boys (2)
  • Keyboard players (2)
  • Photographers (2)
  • Promoters (2)
  • African American jazz musicians (1)
  • Authors, American (1)
  • Balloons (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Bisexuals (1)
  • Brothers and sisters (1)
  • Cameras (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Dinners and dining (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Gay men (1)
  • Gay pride parades (1)
  • Gay rights (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Grandfathers (1)
  • Horses (1)
  • Keyboardists (1)
  • Lesbians (1)
  • Parades (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Radio broadcasters (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Stone walls (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Trombone (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Twins (1)
  • Waitresses (1)
  • (-) Men, White (31)

Subjects, Community

  • Gay liberation (1)
  • Gay pride (1)
  • LGBTQ+ activism (1)
  • LGBTQ+ activists (1)
  • LGBTQ+ events (1)
  • LGBTQ+ people (1)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Oak Street (1)
  • Southmoreland Park (1)
  • (-) Kansas City (Kan.) (31)

Subjects, People

  • Durrett, Warren (6)
  • McKeithen, Marvine (4)
  • Bellamy, D. C., 1949- (3)
  • Taylor, Myra (3)
  • Clay, Otis, 1942-2016 (2)
  • Dare, Lou (2)
  • Fraher, James (2)
  • Gilley, Dawayne (2)
  • Starr, Jack (2)
  • Starr, John Robert (2)
  • Turner, Julie (Singer) (2)
  • Baker, Tom Trashmouth (1)
  • Britain, Rocky (1)
  • Corbett, Mark (1)
  • Corbett, Sue (Guitarist) (1)
  • DePasco, Helen Xarhis, 1921-1992 (1)
  • Edwards, Millie (1)
  • Garner, Larry (1)
  • Hendricks, Rick (1)
  • Hodge, Aaron (1)
  • Hopkins, Grant Sheffield (Groovy Grant) (1)
  • Humiston, Connie (1)
  • Johnson, Ernie (Guitarist) (1)
  • Kassem, Chad (1)
  • Kassem, Lydia (1)
  • Kovacs, Mike (1)
  • Maness, Bill (Keyboard player) (1)
  • Mercer, Alan (Author) (1)
  • Naber, Roger (1)
  • O'Neal, Jim, 1948- (1)
  • Price, Geneva (1)
  • Roark, Mike (1)
  • Rush, Bobby (1)
  • Saint Charles (Musician) (1)
  • Starr, John Philip (1)
  • Tucker, Lori (1)
  • Xarhis, Frank (1)
  • Xarhis, James John, 1924-1992 (1)
  • Xarhis, Jerry John, 1924-1981 (1)

Events

  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2002) (3)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2006) (2)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2008) (2)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2000) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2001) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2004) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2005) (1)

Date Published

  • 1945-08-03 (4)
  • 2001-02-18 (3)
  • 2002-06-29 (3)
  • 2004-03-08 (3)
  • 1961-11-03 (2)
  • 2002-07-08 (2)
  • 2008-06-28 (2)
  • 1905-06-24 (1)
  • 1931 (1)
  • 1940 (1)
  • 1941 (1)
  • 1950 (1)
  • 1991-06 (1)
  • 2000-06-24 (1)
  • 2001-06-25 (1)
  • 2002-03 (1)
  • 2004-02-23 (1)
  • 2004-06-25 (1)
  • 2005-06-25 (1)
  • 2006-06-23 (1)
  • 2006-06-25 (1)

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