Evie Quarles Collection

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This collection consists of 866 images captured by Kansas City-based blues and jazz photographer, Evie Quarles. Quarles provided annotations for the photographs, identifying people, place, date, and event, rendering the collection highly discoverable to researchers.

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Women musicians in front of Mutual Musicians Foundation

A crowd sits and stands in front of Mutual Musicians Foundation during the Landmark Ceremony: included in the crowd are Betty Crow, standing 2nd from left, Myra Taylor and Yvonne Wilson seated and waving; Lori Tucker, Geneva Price, Juanita Moore and Millie Edwards stand behind Myra and Yvonne.

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Jay McShann enjoying his own playing of the piano

Mutual Musicians Foundation Landmark Ceremony: Jay McShann sitting, smiling and playing the piano, facing left to the camera, a cane hanging over the keyboards and a microphone to Jay's right.

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Myra Taylor laughing at the dedication of a park gate in her name

Myra Taylor, looks down at the table where she's sitting, covers her eyes and laughs as Dawayne Gilley and Connie Humiston stand behind her and hold up a poster. On the poster Myra is illustrated as an angel with a devil's tail holding a microphone. Her halo is a Mercury record album. The words on the poster say 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest along the top and Kansas City's own "Spider and the Fly" girl, vocalist, Myra Taylor. Illustration by Thomas A Gieseke © 2001 and other illegible script. At the Myra Taylor Park Gate Dedication, 18th & Woodland:

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Jay McShann listens to Allen Monroe play the piano at the Jackson County 175 Anniversary Awards

Allen Monroe, facing to the right of the photographer, plays a white console piano with his left foot crossed over his right knee, wearing a Fair Isle sweater as Jay McShann looks on seated at a table behind Allen at the Jackson County 175 Anniversary Awards. Two women standing in overcoats facing sideways to the photographer are having a conversation. A large group of unidentified people are standing behind Jay McShann.

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Harry Hypolite with Big John and the 39th Street Blues Band at the Blue Room

Harry Hypolite sits in the middle of the 39th Street Blues Band in a double-breasted white suit and satin Nehru collar shirt, wearing a cap, in the Blue Room, 18th & Vine. Big John [Amaro] stands behind Harry's right shoulder wearing a Irish-type cap and tinted glasses and a gold chain necklace.

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Ramonda Doakes and Donald Byrd at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

Ramonda Doakes, executive director of the Mutual Musicians Foundation, stands in front of a wood-paneled wall of photographs of musicians holding a plastic cup and smiling at the photographer in the Mutual Musicians Foundation building beside Donald Byrd, who is also standing and smiling at the photographer wearing a scarf around his neck and a sport coat.

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Myra Taylor, Bill Maness, Geneva Price, Millie Edwards and Mary Moore sing

Myra Taylor seated and Bill Maness, Geneva Price, Millie Edwards and Mary Moore standing beside Myra all singing into two microphones at the Myra Taylor Park Gate Dedication, 18th & Woodland.

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

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 three are holding a framed, poster-sized, photograph of the Mutual Musicians Foundation members sitting on the front porch, street, and yard of the Mutual Musicians Foundation building.

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Chuck Haddix signing his book for fans

Chuck Haddix seated at a table signing copies of his book at Unity on the Plaza, his left side to the camera, with an unidentified gentleman, standing with his hand over his mouth, beside Chuck behind the table. A group of fans are standing and waiting on the other side of the table. Man with glasses holding a book is Kelly McEniry. Holly Bright is present in the group.

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Myra Taylor at the dedication of a park gate in her name

Myra Taylor; Jackson and Dawayne Gilley sit inside a stretch limousine with the back door opened at the Myra Taylor Park Gate Dedication, 18th & Woodland. Myra gazes to her right out of the car as Jackson and Dawayne look directly at the photographer.

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Myra Taylor and Harry Hypolite at the Blue Room

Harry Hypolite leans forward grinning over a seated Myra Taylor at the Blue Room in front of the bar, 18th & Vine.

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Music fans congratulate Little Hatch on his 80th birthday

Little Hatch smiles as he sits on a folding chair behind an amplifier and in front of speakers at BB's Lawnside BBQ for Provine "Little" Hatch's 80th birthday celebration. Three unidentified smiling music fans are in the picture with him. Two white women put their heads on each of his shoulders while an African American man kneels to Little Hatch's left and rests his right hand on Little Hatch's left knee. One woman wears a baseball cap with an "F" on it. the man wears a plaid jacket over a hoodie.

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Little Hatch plays harmonica for his 80th birthday

Provine "Little" Hatch's head and hands are visible in the photograph as he plays harmonica into a microphone at BB's Lawnside BBQ for his 80th birthday. He's wearing a plaid shirt. The straps of his bib overalls visible in the photograph. He is facing to the photographer's left.

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Jay McShann's granddaughter plays at Jay's wake

Amy, Jay McShann's granddaughter, plays the saxophone with another unidentified African American man at the Mutual Musicians Foundation during the Jay McShann Wake. An unidentified woman stands behind them. A large photograph of Charlie Parker is on the wood-paneled wall behind all of them.

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Performing at Jay McShann's Jam

Pearl Thuston Brown sits in the audience wearing a fur hat and clapping her hands at the Mutual Musicians Foundation building listening to Toni Oliver sing as a band back her up at the Jay McShann Wake. Raymond "Cowboy" Jones on drums.

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