926 East McLemore, July 1966. Notice Jim Stewart under the marquee. (Charles Okle)
L–R: Packy Axton, Don Nix, Steve Cropper, in front of Stax and Satellite, 1960 or 1961. (Photograph by Don Nix/Courtesy of the Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture, Steve Todoroff Collection)
Early Mar-Keys gig. L–R: Unidentified, Donald “Duck” Dunn, Packy Axton (obscured), Don Nix, Wayne Jackson, Steve Cropper. (Photograph by Don Nix/Courtesy of the Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture, Steve Todoroff Collection)
Steve Cropper, 1966. (Charles Okle)
Carla Thomas, 1966. The headboard is the one favored by Al Jackson, Homer Banks, and others. (Photograph by API Photographers/API Collection)
Sam and Dave session, probably 1966. L–R: Al Jackson’s back, Isaac Hayes, Wayne Jackson’s back, Sam Moore, Dave Prater, Duck Dunn, Steve Cropper, Booker T. Jones. (Photograph by API Photographers/API Collection)
Bar-Kays, Mach II, 1967 or 1968. L–R: Roy Cunningham, Ben Cauley, Harvey Henderson, Ron Gorden, Michael Toles (kneeling), James Alexander, Willie Hall. (Earlie Biles Collection)
The “We Three” songwriting team. L–R: Raymond Jackson, Bettye Crutcher, Homer Banks, probably late 1960s. (Photograph by Wayne E. Moore/Courtesy Bettye Crutcher Collection)
Sam and Dave session, probably 1967. Wayne Jackson foreground, Dave Prater (left) and Sam Moore, with Isaac Hayes at the piano. (Stax Museum of American Soul Music)
L–R: Jesse Jackson, Isaac Hayes, Al Bell. (Earlie Biles Collection)
An industry convention, probably 1971 or 1972. L–R: Al Bell (lower left), Leroy Little, Mack Guy, Dino Woodard, John Arnold, WMBM disc jockey Butterball (lower right), unknown. (Earlie Biles Collection)
Willie Hall, drummer for both the Bar-Kays and Isaac Hayes. (Earlie Biles Collection)
Isaac Hayes (left) and Stax artist John KaSandra. (Earlie Biles Collection)
Estelle Axton, in the Fretone offices. (University of Memphis Libraries/Special Collections)
Isaac Hayes’s office at Stax. (Earlie Biles Collection)
Isaac Hayes and the Cadillac that Stax gave him. (Deanie Parker Collection)