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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Bryan Redmond, member of the Grand Marquis, at the Grand Emporium

Bryan Redmond with a furrowed brow blows into a soprano saxophone as a band member of Grand Marquee at the Grand Emporium. He faces to the left of the photographer.

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Carol Duboc at the Grand Emporium

Carol Duboc faces to the left of the photographer as she smiles and sings into a microphone at the Grand Emporium. Her left hand lifted expressively below her lifted chin. She wears a choker necklace with a cameo in the front.

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Marilyn Maye on Talk Radio KCMO 710

Marilyn Maye speaks into two microphones labeled as Talk Radio KCMO 710. The photograph is a close up of her face. Her glasses are markedly bifocals.

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Mark Pender at the Grand Emporium

Mark Pender is leaning back and blowing into a trumpet held high at the Grand Emporium.

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Gem Theater

Gem Theater exterior at night.

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Jerry Ricks during the Living Blues weekend

Jerry Ricks, seated, looking forward, wearing a banded hat, holding his sunglasses forward in his left hand, resting a guitar on his right leg with his right arm over his guitar and right hand resting on his right knee appears to be talking to someone who is not in the photograph during the Living Blues Weekend Photo Shoot. There is are pianos visible in the background.

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Cotton Candy Washington during the Living Blues weekend

Cotton Candy Washington slants her eyes to the right with a smile on her face as she hold an unlit cigarette with long, long finger nails, long long earrings, and wearing a very fashionable hat at the Living Blues Weekend Photo Shoot at the Mutual Musicians Foundation Building.

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James Fraher, Ramonda Doakes, John Brisbin, and Dawayne Gilley at Mutual Musicians Foundation Building

James Fraher, Ramonda Doakes. John Brisbin, Dawayne Gilley stand arm in arm in the doorway of the Mutual Musicians Foundation, 1823 Highland Avenue to participate in the Living Blues Weekend Photo Shoot.

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James Fraher sets up a camera at the Mutual Musicians Foundation Building

James Fraher looks down at a camera he's setting up on a tripod in the doorway of the Mutual Musicians Foundation for the Living Blues Weekend Photo Shoot.

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Myra Taylor during the Living Blues Photo Shoot

Myra Taylor, holds on to the brim of her hat with both hands with a big grin on her face during the Living Blues Weekend Photo Shoot. A cane handle is resting on her lap.

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Roy Searcy at Mutual Musicians Foundation

Roy Searcy leans on the piano with his hands crossed so that his face is visible between the keyboard and the lifted lid at the Mutual Musicians Foundation. He wears a hat with a slim metal band.

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Tyrone Cox at Mutual Musicians Foundation

Tyrone Cox, wearing a Mutual Musicians T-shirt, looks to his left as he plucks the guitar at the Mutual Musicians Foundation.

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Wild Women at Mutual Musicians Foundation

The Wild Women: Mary Moore, Myra Taylor, Millie Edwards, and Geneva Price sit close together and smile at the photographer at the Mutual Musicians Foundation.

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams at the Gem Theater

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands, smiles, and pulls the bow across the strings of his fiddle during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater.

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Lawrence Wright at the Gem Theater

Lawrence Wright, wearing a tuxedo, sings into a microphone as he plays a keyboard during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater. He's facing to the photographer's right.

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