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Anson Funderburgh, Sam Myers, and Lee Oskar the Grand Emporium

Image

Sam Myers, wearing a harmonica belt filled with harmonicas and clutching a harmonica he is blowing into, stands in the middle of the stage between...

Date Published
July-06-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bel Airs with Mark Wenner

Image

Bel Airs, a blues-rock band from Columbia, Missouri comprised of three white men, perform on the stage of the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri...

Date Published
May-1987
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Big Daddy Kinsey

Image

Big Daddy Kinsey, blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, holds a guitar that is across his chest, in a close-up, head-shot photograph. He...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Big Daddy Kinsey

Image

Big Daddy Kinsey, blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, holds the neck of a guitar in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1999
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Billy Lee Riley

Image

Billy Lee Riley, rockabilly singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, turns his head to the left and rests his chin on the curled fingers of his right...

Date Published
1956
1960
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Billy Lee Riley

Image

Billy Lee Riley, rockabilly singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, looks seriously into the camera as he holds a harmonica with both hands and wears...

Date Published
2002
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Billy Lee Riley

Image

Rockabilly vocalist and guitarist Billy Lee Riley sits sideways on a chair that is outside, crosses his legs, and holds a drink in his right hand and...

Date Published
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Billy Lee Riley and the Original Little Green Men

Image

Billy Lee Riley and the Original Little Green Men, a rockabilly band comprised of four white men, grin as they sit, stand or crouch in a corner. One...

Date Published
1956
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Blind Mississippi Morris

Image

Blind Mississippi Morris, blues harmonica player and singer, sits on a tall stool with one foot resting on an amplifier and the other touching the...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bob Margolin and Charlie Musselwhite at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Image

Bob Margolin sits and sings into a microphone, mouth wide open, while he plays a microphoned slide dobro guitar. Charlie Musselwhite is seated to Bob...

Date Published
July-19-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Bland and Lee Oskar at the Grand Emporium

Image

Bobby Bland, Lee Oskar, and others perform as one of the national acts at the Grand Emporium. Bobby Bland looks to his left shoulder towards Lee Oskar...

Date Published
July-03-2003
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

CeDell Davis

Image

CeDell Davis, blues harmonica player, guitar player, and singer, smiles at the camera as he sits holding a guitar and wearing a ball cap. Printed in...

Date Published
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Charlie Musselwhite

Image

Charlie Musselwhite, a blues harmonica player, guitarist, and singer looks to his left in a close-up, head-shot photograph.

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Charlie Musselwhite

Image

Charlie Musselwhite, blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer, wears sunglasses as he blows into harmonica he holds with both hands. Printed in...

Date Published
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Charlie Musselwhite

Image

Charlie Musselwhite, blues guitarist, harmonica player, and vocalist, looks at the camera as the holds a harmonica with both hands. Printed in the...

Date Published
1990
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Charlie Musselwhite

Image

Charlie Musselwhite, blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer, stands outside by railroad tracks crossing his arms over his chest as he wears a...

Date Published
1989
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Charlie Musselwhite

Image

Charlie Musselwhite, blues guitarist, harmonica player, and vocalist, looks to the right in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Charlie Musselwhite

Image

Charlie Musselwhite, blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer, looks to the right in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Charlie Musselwhite

Image

Charlie Musselwhite, blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer, wears a embroidered shirt and a smile in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Printed...

Date Published
1999
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Charlie Musselwhite

Image

Charlie Musselwhite, blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer, smiles in a very close-up, head-shot photograph. Printed in the margin below the...

Date Published
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Charlie Musselwhite and George Myers wearing life preservers

Image

Charlie Musselwhite, a blues harmonica player, guitarist and singer, stands to the right of George Myers, part owner of the Grand Emporium, as they...

Date Published
January-1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Curtis Salgado

Image

Blues vocalist and harmonica player Curtis Salgado stands in a dance move where he's holding both of his arms above his head and his hands formed into...

Date Published
2001
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Curtis Salgado

Image

Blues vocalist and harmonica player Curtis Salgado stands in a dance move where he's holding both of his arms above his head and his hands formed into...

Date Published
2001
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Curtis Salgado

Image

Blues singer and harmonica player Curtis Salgado lowers his eyeglasses to look over the frames at the camera in a close-up, head-shot photograph...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Curtis Salgado

Image

Curtis Salgado, blues singer and harmonica player, crosses his arms and looks seriously at the camera. Printed in the margin below the photograph,...

Date Published
1999
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

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Member of

  • Grand Emporium Collection (69)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (9)

Types

  • photographs (78)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (67)
  • Gelatin silver prints (67)
  • Publicity photographs (57)
  • Portrait photographs (55)
  • Group portraits (19)
  • Color photographs (10)
  • Slides (2)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (53)
  • 2001-2010 (16)
  • 1981-1990 (10)
  • 1951-1960 (2)
  • 1971-1980 (1)

Subjects

  • Blues musicians (72)
  • Men, White (53)
  • Guitarists (43)
  • African American men (28)
  • Bass guitarists (9)
  • Bands (Music) (7)
  • Women, White (5)
  • Blues festivals (4)
  • Harmonica (4)
  • Music festivals (4)
  • Rockabilly musicians (4)
  • Men (3)
  • Pianists (3)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Management (2)
  • Girls (2)
  • Guitar (2)
  • Jazz festivals (2)
  • African American women (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Blues-rock music (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Funk musicians (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Life preservers (1)
  • Mandolinists (1)
  • Percussionists (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Racially mixed people (1)
  • Rock musicians (1)
  • Taxicabs (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • (-) Harmonica players (78)
  • (-) Singers (78)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (9)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (2)
  • Salina (Kan.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Musselwhite, Charlie (10)
  • Delay, Paul (6)
  • Salgado, Curtis (6)
  • Shannon, Mem (6)
  • Riley, Billy Lee (4)
  • Little Hatch, 1921-2003 (3)
  • Monque'D, J. (3)
  • Primich, Gary (3)
  • Wilson, Kim, 1951- (3)
  • Doder, Keith (2)
  • Funderburgh, Anson (2)
  • Kinsey, Big Daddy, 1927-2001 (2)
  • Louisiana Red (2)
  • Myers, Sam, 1936-2006 (2)
  • Neal, Kenny (2)
  • Nulisch, Darrell (2)
  • Oskar, Lee (2)
  • Adegbalola, Gaye (1)
  • Bell, Carey, 1936-2007 (1)
  • Big Bo (1)
  • Bland, Bobby (1)
  • Cotton, James, 1935-2017 (1)
  • Davis, CeDell (1)
  • Earl, Ronnie (1)
  • Faircloth, Jan (1)
  • Faye, Andra (1)
  • Filipowicz, Paul (1)
  • Garoutte, Jacque (1)
  • Gilbert, Millage (1)
  • Glover, Tony (1)
  • Herbert, Jim (1)
  • Hudspeth, Brandon (1)
  • Janes, Roland (1)
  • Kane, Shari (1)
  • Ley, Jimmy (1)
  • Little Whitt (1)
  • Lynwood Slim, 1953- (1)
  • Margolin, Bob (1)
  • Meade, Jimmie (1)
  • Mischo, R. J. (1)
  • Montgomery, James (Blues musician) (1)
  • Morgan, Teddy (1)
  • Morris, Blind Mississippi (1)
  • Muddy Waters, 1915-1983 (1)
  • Myers, George, -1998 (1)
  • Naber, Roger (1)
  • Pepper, Marvin (1)
  • Peterie, Karla (1)
  • Potts, Robert (1)
  • Quarles, Evie (1)
  • Rabson, Ann (1)
  • Roark, Mike (1)
  • Robinson, Fenton (1)
  • Ruth, Madcat (1)
  • Serrano, Pablo (1)
  • Smith, Phil (Bassist) (1)
  • Strother, Percy (1)
  • Van Eaton, Jim (1)
  • Watson, Junior (1)
  • Wenner, Mark (1)
  • Williams, Rich, 1950- (1)

Events

  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2004) (2)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (1998) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (1999) (1)
  • Ultimate Rhythm and Blues Cruise I (1)

Date Published

  • 2000 (18)
  • 1991 (11)
  • 1997 (11)
  • 1999 (7)
  • 2001 (7)
  • 1995 (5)
  • 1996 (5)
  • 1998 (5)
  • 1990 (4)
  • 1993 (3)
  • 1956 (2)
  • 1981 (2)
  • 1985 (2)
  • 2002 (2)
  • 2004 (2)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1975 (1)
  • 1980 (1)
  • 1986 (1)
  • 1987-05 (1)
  • 1987-06 (1)
  • 1987-07 (1)
  • 1989 (1)
  • 1992 (1)
  • 1993-01 (1)
  • 1994 (1)
  • 1998-07-19 (1)
  • 1999-03-19 (1)
  • 1999-07-16 (1)
  • 2001-07-06 (1)
  • 2002-07-06 (1)
  • 2002-11-20 (1)
  • 2002-12-15 (1)
  • 2003-07-03 (1)
  • 2004-05-18 (1)
  • 2004-06-26 (1)

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