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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Diane "Mama" Ray at the Grand Emporium

Diane "Mama" Ray, holding a lit cigarette in her right hand and a microphone in her left hand, closes her eyes and sings into a microphone at the Grand Emporium during the Hope House Benefit.

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Linda Shell at the Grand Emporium

Linda Shell closes her eyes and splays the fingers of her left hand toward the sky as she sings into a microphone at the Grand Emporium.

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George Robinson at the Levee

George Robinson, of the band Simplexity, wearing a ball cap with a "G" on it, closes his eyes as he blows into a trumpet in front of a microphone at the Levee.

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Cotton Candy Washington at the Grand Emporium

Cotton Candy Washington sings into a microphone she is holding while she performs at the Grand Emporium.

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Mary Moore at the Grand Emporium

Mary Moore, wearing a hat, has a big grin as she bends over a microphone she holds in her right hand at the Grand Emporium.

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Rick Hendricks at the Grand Emporium

Rick Hendricks looks straight at the photographer as he plays a guitar during the Hope House Benefit at the Grand Emporium.

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Eugene Smiley at the Grand Emporium

Eugene Smiley smiles directly at the photographer, wearing a batik print shirt, as he plays a guitar at the Grand Emporium.

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Pierre d'Entremont at the Grand Emporium

Pierre d'Entremont looks down as he blows into an amplified flute at the Grand Emporium.

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Joyce Wood and a guitarist at the Grand Emporium

Joyce Wood and an unidentified white male guitarist of the Dick Dangerous Band play their guitars at the Grand Emporium. Joyce is standing as she plays the guitar and sings into a microphone with her eyes closed. The guitarist is seated and looking intently at the neck of the guitar he is playing.

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Lady Red at the Grand Emporium

Lady Red, from the left, closes her eyes and sings into a microphone she's holding in her right hand while her fingers on her left hand are splayed toward the ceiling during the Hope House Benefit at the Grand Emporium.

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Roma Firman at the Grand Emporium

Roma Firman furrows her brow as she sings into a microphone held in her right hand as she splays the fingers of her left hand toward the crowd during the Hope House Benefit at the Grand Emporium.

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Brenda Walker at the Grand Emporium

Brenda Walker, wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a zebra print coat, blows into a flute very close to a microphone at the Grand Emporium.

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Bettye Jo Miller at the Phoenix

Bettye Jo Miller, wearing an animal print dress, laughs and claps her hands from behind a microphone at the piano at the Phoenix.

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Baby Lee at the Grand Emporium

Baby Lee, from the left, sings into a microphone she holds with her right hand and points with her left hand at Divas Night Out at the Grand Emporium.

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Renee Satterwhite at the Grand Emporium

Renee Satterwhite, wearing a silk print shirt, looks down at the neck of a guitar as she plays at the Grand Emporium.

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