Rare Studio Photo Portrait Of Street Musician Robert Johnson Blues Guitarist

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Rare Studio Photo Portrait Of Street Musician Robert Johnson Blues Guitarist:
$15000.00

Discovered August 2025.

Transparency overlay comparison to known photo of Robert Johnson matches well. Robert Johnsons range of travel as street musician regional performer is well documented to have been in Missouri. Kansas City certainly would gave been a potential place of income for him albeit not the easiest place to busk being unfamiliar with the town and facing competition from other musicians. His hat and suit is congruent with the known photos of him.

2x1.5 inches

The back is stamped

P. Reed Thomas

Photo Studio 1507 E. 12th St.

Kansas City 6. Mo

Within photos my 2024 discoveries of Robert Johnson portraits and research proxy photos from the same cache.

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