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- file
- Collection ID:
- Accession 00-098
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
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- Audiotapes / Box 5 / Folder 15
Robert Udkoff Collection of Duke Ellington Ephemera
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Udkoff, Robert, 1918- (businessman)
- Dates:
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1924-1990
- Size:
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1.33 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0388
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs, event programs, periodicals, cassette audio tapes, correspondence, TV program scripts and pamphlets documenting Duke Ellington's career as a musician, 1924-1974, and his legacy after his death.
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Sun Ra
Gaskin, Leonard, 1920-
Taylor, Billy
Stokes, W. Royal, Dr., 1930-
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1940s-2005
- Size:
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10 Cubic feet (39 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0766
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Publicity photographs of musicians and entertainers, mostly jazz musicians, such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie, but including many rock and even a few classical performers. The collection also contains tape recorded radio interviews conducted between 1970 and 2003. In addition there are posters relating to musical performances.
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0900
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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- file
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0900
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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Science Service
- Dates:
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1955-1956
- Size:
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 20-084
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Beginning in the 1920s, Science Service staff wrote 15-minute radio scripts ("Science Service Talks" and "Science News of the Week") which were mailed every week to several dozen U.S. radio stations and then read on the air by local announcers or scientists. By the early 1930s, Science Service was producing a weekly live-broadcast program for...
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Smithsonian Productions
- Dates:
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1994-2000
- Size:
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3 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (2 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-181
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audiotapes and compact discs created during the production of the radio series "Jazz Smithsonian." Hosted by Lena Horne, the series features the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra in concert, performing classic American jazz of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, as well as oral histories of American jazz legends...
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Smithsonian Productions
- Dates:
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1991-2001
- Size:
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8 cu. ft. (16 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 04-062
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audiotapes created during the production of the radio series "Jazz Smithsonian." Hosted by Lena Horne, the series features the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra in concert, performing classic American jazz of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, as well as oral histories of American jazz legends. Each show i...
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1940-1942
- Level:
- file
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0900
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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Jones, Shirley May, 1922-2004
Connick, Kathleen D.
Leonard, Shirley, 1922-2004
- Dates:
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1931-1998
bulk 1938-1957
- Size:
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4 Cubic feet (16 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0919
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers documenting the life and career of Shirley May Jones, stage name Shirley Leonard, an exotic dancer from Cincinnati, Ohio. The papers, photographs, and clippings document her childhood, early life, and professional career.
