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Aaron Neville at the Kansas City Spirit Fest

Image

Aaron Neville, one of the national acts to perform at the Kansas City Spirit Festival, wearing a leopard print tank top, stands and sings into a...

Date Published
September-06-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Amazing Grace and Roger Naber at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Grand Emporium

Image

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

Ann Rabson at the Grand Emporium

Image

Ann Rabson, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes her eyes, opens her mouth wide and sings into a microphone as she plays...

Date Published
January-27-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Ann Rabson, Andra Faye, and Gaye Adegbalola at the Grand Emporium

Image

Ann Rabson, Andrea Faye, and Gaye Adegbalola, a national act to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand on stage, arm in arm, grinning at the unseen...

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

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

Barbara Blue at Knuckleheads

Image

Barbara Blue, wearing sunglasses, sings into a microphone and plays the tambourine during the Box Car Blues Festival at Knuckleheads Saloon.

Date Published
August-20-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

BB King at KC Spirit Festival

Image

B.B. King from below, smiles as he plays an electric guitar. One of the national acts at the KC Spirit Festival.

Date Published
September-06-1998
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

Bernard Allison playing guitar in the street; outside the Grand Emporium

Image

Blues guitarist and vocalist Bernard Allison grinning and playing guitar in the street outside the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. He wears a...

Date Published
May-22-1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Blind Boys of Alabama at Rhythm & Ribs

Image

Blind Boys of Alabama, which includes Clarence Fountain and Jimmy Lee Carter, wearing sunglasses and matching suits, walk across stage with a hand on...

Date Published
June-18-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles 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 "Blue" Bland at the Grand Emporium

Image

Bobby "Blue" Bland, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes his eyes, scrunches his face, and lifts his chin as he sings...

Date Published
November-17-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

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

Image

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

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

Bobby Womack at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Image

Bobby Womack, wearing a cap and sunglasses, sings into a microphone, mouth wide open, during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

Date Published
July-18-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Buckwheat Zydeco

Image

Buckwheat Zydeco, zydeco accordion player and singer, plays an accordion and sings into a microphone on a stage with five other African American...

Date Published
March-1987
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Buddy Guy

Image

Buddy Guy, blues guitarist and singer, stands at the microphone on stage at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri and looks down and to the left...

Date Published
October-1986
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Carol Duboc at the Grand Emporium

Image

Carol Duboc, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, sings into a microphone that she holds in her right hand.

Date Published
December-26-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Carol Smith and Joyce Constant playing guitar and singing

Image

Carol Smith and Joyce Constant singing and playing guitars in front of microphones at Phoenix Books; an unidentified white woman, possibly Cheryl...

Date Published
1989
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Chris Duarte, John Jordan, and Little Hatch at the Grand Emporium

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Chris Duarte, John Jordan, and Little Hatch, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand on stage in a triangle facing each other...

Date Published
June-30-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Chris Murrell at Rhythm & Ribs

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Chris Murrell, from the right, sings into a microphone during the Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival at 18th & Vine.

Date Published
June-18-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Cobalt Project at the Grand Emporium

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The blues band, Cobalt Project Band, which includes: Branden Hudspeth, Sue Stubbs, Jan Faircloth, Paul Greenlease. Standing inside the Grand Emporium...

Date Published
January-09-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Cobalt Project at the Grand Emporium

Image

The blues band, Cobalt Project, including Brandon Hudspeth, closing his eyes and playing the guitar, Jan Faircloth, playing the drums, Sue Stubbs...

Date Published
January-11-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Corey Glover at the Grand Emporium

Image

Corey Glover, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes his eyes as he sings into a microphone he holds in his left hand and...

Date Published
November-24-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

D.C. Bellamy at Kansas City Blues Society 3rd Annual Acoustic Showcase

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D.C. Bellamy, wearing a ball cap, sings into a microphone as he strums a guitar at B. B.'s Lawnside Bar-B-Q during the Kansas City Blues Society 3rd...

Date Published
August-26-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

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Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (91)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (74)
  • GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection (11)
  • GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection (4)

Types

  • photographs (180)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (111)
  • Gelatin silver prints (111)
  • Portrait photographs (108)
  • Color photographs (69)
  • Group portraits (62)
  • Negatives (28)
  • Snapshots (13)
  • Publicity photographs (7)
  • Photocopies (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (101)
  • 2001-2010 (54)
  • 1981-1990 (26)

Subjects

  • Blues musicians (103)
  • Men, White (95)
  • African American men (61)
  • Musicians (57)
  • Ukulele (56)
  • Guitarists (53)
  • Women, White (37)
  • Tulips (33)
  • African American women (23)
  • Music festivals (22)
  • Blues festivals (21)
  • Jazz festivals (17)
  • Lesbians (14)
  • Bass guitarists (12)
  • Independent bookstores (11)
  • Guitar (10)
  • Bands (Music) (9)
  • Double bassists (9)
  • Harmonica players (9)
  • Women singers (9)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (8)
  • Microphone (8)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Management (6)
  • Women musicians (6)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (5)
  • Entertainers (5)
  • Keyboard players (5)
  • Banners (4)
  • Books (4)
  • Fans (Persons) (4)
  • Shelving for books (4)
  • Gay men (3)
  • Pianists (3)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Signs and signboards (3)
  • Women's History Month (3)
  • Autoharp (2)
  • Parks (2)
  • Picnics (2)
  • Show windows (2)
  • Stained glass windows (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Windows (2)
  • Accordionists (1)
  • AIDS activists (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Blues-rock music (1)
  • Bottleneck (Guitar playing) (1)
  • Brothers (1)
  • Choral conductors (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • East Asians (1)
  • Funk musicians (1)
  • Gay rights (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Jazz musicians (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Keyboards (Music) (1)
  • Marquees (1)
  • Men (1)
  • Music audiences (1)
  • Music fans (1)
  • Music journalists (1)
  • Overalls (1)
  • Performing arts--Repertoire (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Radio broadcasters (1)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (1)
  • Rock musicians (1)
  • Stone walls (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • T-shirts--Social aspects (1)
  • Tap dancers (1)
  • Toys (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • Washboards (1)
  • Women entertainers (1)
  • Zydeco musicians (1)
  • (-) Singers (180)

Subjects, Community

  • White LGBTQ+ people (15)
  • LGBTQ+ people (14)
  • LGBTQ+ events (13)
  • LGBTQ+ musicians (13)
  • White lesbians (12)
  • Women's bookshops (11)
  • Gay liberation (5)
  • LGBTQ+ activism (5)
  • LGBTQ+ activists (5)
  • Gay pride (2)
  • African American gay men (1)
  • African American LGBTQ+ people (1)
  • LGBTQ+ people (1)
  • LGBTQ+ symbols (1)
  • Pink triangles (1)
  • White gay men (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • 18th and Vine District (6)
  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (1)
  • (-) Kansas City (Mo.) (180)

Subjects, People

  • Tiny Tim, 1932-1996 (55)
  • Naber, Roger (7)
  • Hicks, Bryan (6)
  • Myers, George, -1998 (6)
  • Driskill, Joan (5)
  • Clay, Otis, 1942-2016 (4)
  • Taylor, Koko (4)
  • Taylor, Myra (4)
  • Bland, Bobby (3)
  • Hill, Rich (Keyboard player) (3)
  • Little Hatch, 1921-2003 (3)
  • Simpson, Christy (Musician) (3)
  • Smith, Carol (Musician) (3)
  • Barton, Lou Ann (2)
  • Bellamy, D. C., 1949- (2)
  • Charles, Ray, 1930-2004 (2)
  • Edwards, Honeyboy (2)
  • Faircloth, Jan (2)
  • Funderburgh, Anson (2)
  • Greenleaf, Diunna (2)
  • Greenlease, Paul (2)
  • Guy, Buddy (2)
  • Holmes, Sherman (2)
  • Holmes, Wendell, 1943-2015 (2)
  • Hudspeth, Brandon (2)
  • Keb' Mo' (Musician) (2)
  • LaSalle, Denise (2)
  • Lee, Frankie (2)
  • Magic Slim (Musician) (2)
  • Magness, Janiva (2)
  • Myers, Sam, 1936-2006 (2)
  • Nicole, Danielle (2)
  • Oskar, Lee (2)
  • Pickett, Wilson (2)
  • Rabson, Ann (2)
  • Severns, Tamara (2)
  • Stubbs, Sue (Guitarist) (2)
  • Wilson, Linda (Activist) (2)
  • Young, Arnie (Drummer) (2)
  • Adegbalola, Gaye (1)
  • Allison, Bernard (1)
  • Amazing Grace (Singer) (1)
  • Anderson, Jamie, 1957- (1)
  • Angerer, Karl (1)
  • Arterton, Jon (1)
  • Austin, Renée (1)
  • Baker, Tom Trashmouth (1)
  • Ball, Marcia (1)
  • Ballard, Hank (1)
  • Berge, Cheryl (1)
  • Bibb, Eric (1)
  • Blue, Barbara, 1958- (1)
  • Bronze, Dave (1)
  • Brooks, Lonnie (1)
  • Callen, Michael, 1955-1993 (1)
  • Carter, Jimmy Lee (1)
  • Constant, Joyce (1)
  • Copeland, Shemekia (1)
  • Cox, Steve (Singer) (1)
  • Davies, Debbie (1)
  • Dease, Evan (1)
  • DeMent, Iris (1)
  • Duarte, Chris (1)
  • Duboc, Carol (1)
  • Dural, Buckwheat, 1947-2016 (1)
  • Evans, Terry (Vocalist) (1)
  • Faye, Andra (1)
  • Finnigan, Mike (1)
  • Font, Aurelio (1)
  • Fountain, Clarence (1)
  • Garrett, Vernon (1)
  • Glover, Corey (1)
  • Glover, Tony (1)
  • Groetzinger, Red (1)
  • Hall, Sandra (Singer) (1)
  • Harman, James, 1946-2021 (1)
  • Hemphill, Jessie Mae (1)
  • Hooker, J. T. (1)
  • Huggins, Speedy, 1913-1999 (1)
  • Humiston, Connie (1)
  • Hunt, Kelley (1)
  • Hypolite, Harry (1)
  • Johnson, Luther, 1939 April 11- (1)
  • Jones, Rich (Sound engineer) (1)
  • Jordan, John (1)
  • King, B. B. (1)
  • King Alex, 1934-2008 (1)
  • Little Mary (1)
  • Locke, Ernie (1)
  • Lockwood, Robert Jr., 1915-2006 (1)
  • Mack, Lonnie (1)
  • Margolin, Bob (1)
  • McWilliams, Herschel (1)
  • Mooney, John, 1955- (1)
  • Moore, Mary (1)
  • Murray, Landon (1)
  • Murrell, Chris (1)
  • Musselwhite, Charlie (1)
  • Nelson, Joshua (1)
  • Neville, Aaron, 1941- (1)
  • Nulisch, Darrell (1)
  • Odom, Mac (1)
  • Osborn, Tim (1)
  • Oswald, Doug (1)
  • Oswald, Sherry (1)
  • Popsy (1)
  • Pruitt, Dave (Guitarist) (1)
  • Pruitt, Dick (1)
  • Pryor, Steve (1)
  • Quarles, Evie (1)
  • Quintero, Cardy (1)
  • Richardson, Kenny (1)
  • Ricks, Philadelphia Jerry (1)
  • Robinson, Fenton (1)
  • Rutland, Jimmy (1)
  • Scofield, Paul (1)
  • Scott-Adams, Peggy, 1948- (1)
  • Seals, Son (1)
  • Sedovic, Mike (1)
  • Shaw, Eddie, 1937-2018 (1)
  • Silva, Greg (1)
  • Sista Monica (1)
  • Smith, Lavay (1)
  • Snow, Jon (Trumpet player) (1)
  • Spence, Susan (Photographer) (1)
  • Stuerke, John (1)
  • Taylor, Floyd (Singer) (1)
  • Taylor, Johnnie (1)
  • Teamer, Ron (1)
  • Thomas, Irma (1)
  • Townsend, Cliff (1)
  • Townsend, Henry (1)
  • Turner, Eddie (1)
  • Vaughan, Jimmie (1)
  • Waiters, Mel (1)
  • Walker, Phillip, 1937-2010 (1)
  • Wellington, Valerie (1)
  • Wenner, Mark (1)
  • West, Brian (Trumpet player) (1)
  • White Hat Mike (1)
  • Whitehead, Bill (Guitarist) (1)
  • Williams, Rich, 1950- (1)
  • Willson, Michelle (1)
  • Wilson, John (1)
  • Wirtz, Billy C. (1)
  • Womack, Bobby (1)

Events

  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (1998) (5)
  • Acoustic Blues Showcase (7th : 2000 : Kansas City, Mo.) (4)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (1999) (4)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2001) (4)
  • National Women's Choral Festival (1989 : Kansas City, Mo.) (4)
  • Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival (2005 : Kansas City, Mo.) (4)
  • Box Car Blues Festival (2005 : Kansas City, Mo.) (3)
  • Box Car Blues Festival (2006 : Kansas City, Mo.) (2)
  • Spirit Festival (1998 : Kansas City, Mo.) (2)
  • Acoustic Blues Showcase (10th : 2003 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2000) (1)

Date Published

  • 1994-04-12 (56)
  • 1989 (12)
  • 1998-07-18 (4)
  • 2000-08-26 (4)
  • 2005-06-18 (4)
  • 1993-03-20 (3)
  • 2000-06-09 (3)
  • 2003-11-05 (3)
  • 2005-08-20 (3)
  • 1985 (2)
  • 1986-10 (2)
  • 1987-02 (2)
  • 1987-05 (2)
  • 1998-09-06 (2)
  • 1999-07-18 (2)
  • 2001 (2)
  • 2001-07-21 (2)
  • 2001-07-22 (2)
  • 2001-10-10 (2)
  • 2002-01-11 (2)
  • 2003-04-11 (2)
  • 2006-08-19 (2)
  • 1986-11 (1)
  • 1987-01 (1)
  • 1987-03 (1)
  • 1987-06 (1)
  • 1987-07 (1)
  • 1988-08-05 (1)
  • 1990 (1)
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  • 1998-05-22 (1)
  • 1998-06-30 (1)
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  • 1998-07-14 (1)
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  • 1998-09-25 (1)
  • 1998-10-24 (1)
  • 1998-10-30 (1)
  • 1998-11-24 (1)
  • 1998-12-03 (1)
  • 1999-02-20 (1)
  • 1999-02-27 (1)
  • 1999-03-19 (1)
  • 1999-03-27 (1)
  • 1999-04-23 (1)
  • 1999-04-24 (1)
  • 1999-07-16 (1)
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  • 2004-06-10 (1)
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