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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Sherman Holmes at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Sherman Holmes of the band, The Holmes Brothers, eyes squeezed closed, wearing a Dashiki, plays an electric bass during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. There are perspiration drips visible on his guitar strap.

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Wendell Holmes at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Wendell Holmes of the band, The Holmes Brothers, closes his eyes and grimaces as he sings, mouth wide open, into a microphone, and plays a keyboard during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

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Lazy Lester at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Lazy Lester's face is barely visible behind his hands which are clasping an amplified harmonica. His eyes are closed and he's wearing a straw fedora during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

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Irma Thomas at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Irma Thomas, wearing a sundress, smiles up and to her left as she holds a microphone in her right hand and lifts her left elbow even with her shoulder during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

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Sean Costello at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

Sean Costello, perspiring heavily, smiles to his right as he stands and plays an electric guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

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King of the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002

Spoon Wilson and D.C. Bellamy, standing wearing beefeater costumes, and an unidentified African American woman, have crowned Little Hatch the king during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. The seated audience is visible behind this group.

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Little Hatch, King of the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002

Provine "Little" Hatch close-up photograph as the king of the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. Little Hatch wears a crown and cape as he smiles for the photographer.

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Marvine McKeithen at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000

Marvine McKeithen smiles from under an umbrella she's holding in her left hand as she sits beside an unidentified child behind a table laden with t-shirts during the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival.

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Rick Hendricks at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000

Rick Hendricks, wearing a Hawaiian print shirt, smiles to his left as he holds the neck high of an electric guitar he is playing during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival:

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Sonny Kenner at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000

Sonny Kenner closes his eyes and smiles as he plays a guitar during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

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Eddie Saunders and Sonny Kenner at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000

Eddie Saunders, holding his saxophone on his lap and Sonny Kenner playing a guitar, put their heads together and smile while performing at the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

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Glen Therman at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000

Glen Therman, wearing a perspiration soaked shirt and a flat cap, looks intensely to his left as he plays a bass during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

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