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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King Alex at the Grand Emporium

King Alex wears a Hawaiian print shirt as he smiles and looks right at the photographer and holds the microphone to his mouth at the Grand Emporium.
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James Whitney at Mill Creek Brewery

James Whitney looks to his right at the photographer with a gleam in his eyes as he sings into the microphone and plays a bass at Mill Creek Brewery. A picture of, likely, Duke Ellington is on the wood-paneled wall behind him.
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Little Hatch at the Grand Emporium

Little Hatch laughs up to his right as he holds the microphone on the stand at the Grand Emporium. A guitarist is barely visible sitting behind Hatch. A Marcus Roberts Back in the House poster is on the wall behind Little Hatch.
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Bobby Carson at the Grand Emporium

Bobby Carson looks serious as he holds an electric guitar high on his chest and watches the fingers of his left hand on the neck of the guitar as he plays at the Grand Emporium.
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Sonny Kenner at Mill Creek Brewery

Sonny Kenner, wearing a Fair Isle sweater, sings into a microphone as he plays an electric guitar at Mill Creek Brewery.
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Evan Dease at the Grand Emporium

Evan Dease from his right side, wearing a velour shirt with circles on in, holds his mouth wide open as he is singing into a microphone as he holds his electric guitar at the Grand Emporium.
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Dwight Jenkins at Mill Creek Brewery

Dwight Jenkins, part of the Sonny Kenner Band, wears an flat cap, plays a drum set, and sings into a microphone on his left at the Mill Creek Brewery.
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Matt Brown at the Grand Emporium

Matt Brown, seriously looking down at the bongo drum, wears a cloth wrap around his dreadlocks as he beats on bongo drums at the Grand Emporium.
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Fast Johnny Ricker at the Grand Emporium

Fast Johnny Ricker, wearing a smoking jacket, looks seriously at the neck of his guitar as he plays at the Grand Emporium.
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Fred Fendorf at the Grand Emporium

Fred Fendorf, a member of the band KC Brass & Electric, plays a guitar at the Grand Emporium.
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Tom Duckworth at the Grand Emporium

Tom Duckworth closes his eyes and lays his head back as he plays a guitar at Grand Emporium.
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Lawrence Wright at the Grand Emporium

Lawrence Wright of the band The Outlets, smiles down at the photographer while wearing a suit with a musical staff tie, at the Grand Emporium during the Kansas City Blues Society May Jam.
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Lawrence Wright at Blayney's

Lawrence Wright, wearing a tuxedo, smiles from behind a microphone at Blayney's.
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Neil Noland at the Grand Emporium

Neil Noland, a member of the KC Brass & Electric band, closes his eyes as he blows into a tenor saxophone at the Grand Emporium. The saxophone's bell is just below a microphone. Neil is wearing a Hawaiian print shirt.
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Tom "Trashmouth" Baker at the Grand Emporium

Tom "Trashmouth" Baker, wearing wire-rim glasses, a beret cap, a sport coat with the sleeves pushed up and a printed t-shirt, sings for the Hope House Benefit at the Grand Emporium.
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