"Big James" Montgomery, Chicago blues style trombonist, smiles as he holds a trombone across his body with both hands with a cloth over the bell that...
Ground view of "Black Monday" gathering at Civic Center Plaza in Chicago, IL, 1969. An African American man in the center of the photo has is arm...
Comedian "Chris Cali" stands in front of a weeping willow background wearing a backwards flat cap, sunglasses, earrings, a open plaid shirt over a...
"A Great Day in Harlem": Art Kane portrait of fifty-seven jazz musicians in Harlem; Harlem, New York.
Headshot of Joe Liggins leaning forward and smiling. Liggins is wearing a white suit and patterned tie.
Blues harmonica player "Wild Child" Butler holds a harmonica to his mouth with both hands and looks slightly to the right. Printed in the margin below...
Blues harmonica player "Wild Child" Butler closes his eyes, grips his left hand in a fist, and opens his mouth to sing into a microphone. He has a cap...
Houserocker' Johnson and the Shadows in a bar. Guitarist Houserocker sits on a piano with his feet on the keys holding an electric blues guitar across...
A photograph of a parked 1946 Mercury sedan with the driver's side door open. Two unidentified African American people, a man and a woman, are on the...
Musicians at the 1986 Conneaut Lake Jazz Festival, Pennsylvania. Back row, top left: Bob Haggart, Johnny Varro, Marty Grosz, Ray Sherman, Johnny Mince...
360 Degrees, a band of five African American men, performing on stage. Printed along the bottom of the photograph, "360 Degrees."
Group portrait of the 375th Army Service Band; Camp Shanks, New York. Band personnel (H. Jackson, percussionist; T. Waters, L. Faulk, D. Taylor, A...
Group portrait of the 375th Army Service Band; Camp Shanks, New York. Band personnel (H. Jackson, percussionist; T. Waters, L. Faulk, D. Taylor, A...
Group portrait of the 375th Army Service Band; Camp Shanks, New York. Band personnel (H. Jackson, percussionist; T. Waters, L. Faulk, D. Taylor, A...
Blues saxophonist A.C. Reed smiles at the camera as he sits at a high-top table with am elaborately engraved saxophone lying on its side on the table...
Twelve African American men, Board of Bishops of the AME Zions, St. Louis, Missouri, stand on steps in front of doors to a building in Washington D.C...
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...
Jon Barnett (right) in a Silence=Death t-shirt about to kiss an unidentified white man on the steps of City Hall as part of the National Day of...
AC Reed, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing sunglasses and an Irish cap with stars punched into it, blows into a...
ACT UP/KC gay pride rally on the steps of City Hall in Kansas City; seven unidentified men are seen (one African American man in white pants, the rest...
ACT UP/KC gay pride rally on the steps of City Hall in Kansas City; Jon Barnett is standing in front of a microphone, an unidentified white man is...
Actor Conrad Janis speaking during an event for USAir at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel; an unidentified white man is on the left and an...
Duck Warner, wearing a long-tailed tuxedo, closes his eyes as he prepares to blow into a trumpet pointed at a microphone during the Living Blues Party...
Adam Page, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, looks down at the neck of a guitar during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater.
Adam Page, wearing a ball cap, seriously looks forward as he plays electric guitar on stage during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
