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Bill Carter's Blues Revue at the Grand Emporium

Image

Bill Carter's Blues Revue, a blues band, sit or stand in front of a wall of signatures and smile or look solemnly at the photographer at the Grand...

Date Published
September-30-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Billy Boy Arnold and Roger Naber at the Grand Emporium

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Billy Boy Arnold, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, sits at the bar next to the owner, Roger Naber. Both smile at the...

Date Published
December-28-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Carson at the Grand Emporium

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Bobby Carson on stage, speaks into a microphone looking left with a keyboard player, drummer, and guitarist behind him. A large crowd is in front of...

Date Published
May-30-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Rush and Marvine McKeithen at the Club Paradox

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Marvine McKeithen holds up Bobby Rush's hand and arm as she smiles and speaks into a microphone on the stage at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas...

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

Bobby Rush and the crowd at Club Paradox

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Bobby Rush is seated to the far right among the crowd at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas.

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

Carl Weathersby at the Grand Emporium

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Carl Weathersby stands in the middle of the audience playing his guitar at the Grand Emporium.

Date Published
February-03-2001
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

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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

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

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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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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

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

Larry Garner at the Grand Saloon

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Larry Garner, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Saloon during the Mardi Gras Club Crawl, wears a fedora, leather vest and leather pants...

Date Published
February-16-1999
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

Roger Naber, Mary Faith, Brody Buster, and Shannon Curfman at the Grand Emporium

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Brody Buster and Shannon Curfman, national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand next to Roger Naber and Mary Faith in front of the signature...

Date Published
November-15-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Sherman Holmes, Iris DeMent, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon at the Grand Emporium.

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Sherman Holmes, Iris DeMent, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand arm in arm, side by side, in...

Date Published
September-05-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Wendy Neutzler and an unidentified man

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Wendy Neutzler leans her head into the cheek of an unidentified African American man who leans his cheek towards the side of her head at the Grand...

Date Published
1985
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

William Clarke and Henry Clay

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William Clarke and Henry Clay, blues musicians, at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. William Clarke forms his right hand into a fist with...

Date Published
January-11-1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection
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  • Bars (Drinking establishments)
  • Blues musicians

Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (15)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (17)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (15)
  • Gelatin silver prints (15)
  • Group portraits (15)
  • Color photographs (2)
  • Portrait photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (11)
  • 1991-2000 (6)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • African American men (12)
  • Guitarists (10)
  • Men, White (10)
  • Women, White (8)
  • Singers (7)
  • Music fans (6)
  • African American women (4)
  • Music audiences (4)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Harmonica players (3)
  • Double bassists (2)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Overalls (1)
  • Promoters (1)
  • (-) Bars (Drinking establishments) (17)
  • (-) Blues musicians (17)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (11)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (6)

Subjects, People

  • McKeithen, Marvine (3)
  • Rush, Bobby (3)
  • Bellamy, D. C., 1949- (2)
  • Faircloth, Jan (2)
  • Greenlease, Paul (2)
  • Hudspeth, Brandon (2)
  • Naber, Roger (2)
  • Stubbs, Sue (Guitarist) (2)
  • Arnold, Billy Boy (1)
  • Baty, Charlie (1)
  • Buster, Brody, 1984- (1)
  • Carson, Bobby (Blues guitarist) (1)
  • Clarke, William (Harmonica player) (1)
  • Clay, Henry (Harmonica player) (1)
  • Curfman, Shannon (1)
  • DeMent, Iris (1)
  • Faith, Mary (Club patron) (1)
  • Garner, Larry (1)
  • Holmes, Sherman (1)
  • Holmes, Wendell, 1943-2015 (1)
  • Humiston, Connie (1)
  • Neutzler, Wendy (1)
  • Weathersby, Carl (1)

Date Published

  • 2004-03-08 (4)
  • 1985 (1)
  • 1997-01-11 (1)
  • 1999-02-16 (1)
  • 1999-11-15 (1)
  • 1999-12-28 (1)
  • 2000 (1)
  • 2000-09-30 (1)
  • 2001-01-11 (1)
  • 2001-02-03 (1)
  • 2002-01-09 (1)
  • 2002-04-08 (1)
  • 2002-09-05 (1)
  • 2004-02-23 (1)
  • 2004-05-30 (1)

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