Floyd Levin Jazz Reference Collection
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Garland, Ed
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
Morton, Jelly Roll, d. 1941
Levin, Floyd, 1922-2007
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1880 - 2010
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42.5 Cubic feet (110 boxes, 12 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1222
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Floyd Levin was a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who turned his passion for jazz into a second career as an influential jazz journalist and historian. The collection consists of research materials including biographical files. In addition, there are numerous photographs that were taken and collected by Levin.
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Challis, John, 1907-1974
Frayer, William W.
Truesdale, Ephraim
- Dates:
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circa 1900-1974
- Size:
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24 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1375
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the Challis Harpsichord business, and the lives of Mr. Challis and his partner, Ephraim Truesdale. The collection contains correspondence, both personal and business; business records, including ledgers and journals; drawings, including design drawings for harpsichord decorations and elements; client files; subject files, e...
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Whaley, Thomas L.
- Dates:
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1941-1979
- Size:
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1.5 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0652
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers documenting Whaley's association with Duke Ellington and his career as a copyist, pianist, composer and arranger. The collection includes letters, photographs, music manuscripts, business records, writings, and printed materials including magazine and newspapers articles, concert programs, and catalogs.
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Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
Russo, William, 1928-2003
- Dates:
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circa 1967-1968
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0406
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
William Russo Transcription and Arrangement of Duke Ellington's First Concert of Sacred Music consists of the full conductor score, orchestral parts, and choral parts to "In the Beginning God," "Tell Me It's the Truth," "Come Sunday," "The Lord's Prayer," "Will You Be There?" "Ain't But the One," and "David Danced." The transcription and arrangemen...
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Santamaria, Mongo, 1917-
- Dates:
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1950s-1996
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0893
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection includes music manuscripts, articles and clippings, concert programs, passports, and photographs.
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Graciela, 1915-2010
- Dates:
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1934-2013
- Size:
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10 Cubic feet (33 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1425
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the personal life and professional career of Graciela Perez-Gutierrez, a well known Afro-Cuban singer. Born in Havana, she performed for over thirty years, first with the all-female Orquesta Anacaona and El Trio Garcia and then with her brother Machito before a solo career.
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Pubols, Benjamin H., Jr.
- Dates:
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1950-2002
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0795
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An artificial collection of music memorabilia and printed ephemera. Examples of contents include concert programs and advertising. New material, much of it from the second half of the twentieth century, will be added regularly to this collection. This collection has been integrated into the Archives Center Business Americana Collection (NMAH.AC.040...
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Blum, Morris
WANN Radio Station (Annapolis, Maryland)
- Dates:
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1940-1999
- Size:
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13 Cubic feet (32 boxes and 12 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0800
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the creative, technical and political aspects of managing WANN Radio Station in Annapolis, Maryland during the mid-Twentieth Century. Key areas of research include black radio stations; Annapolis African American communities; marketing to Black communities; political activism through media; Black-Jewish community relationships; church, community and media activism.
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Schillinger, Leslie
- Dates:
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1945-1970.
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1220
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of printed materials relating to Gene Krupa and other big band musicians and band leaders, including Guy Lombardo and Benny Goodman.
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Okin, Earl
- Dates:
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1933-1987.
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0.4 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0391
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Three audiotapes, two concert programs, one poster, two photographs, and miscellaneous newsclippings documenting the performing career of Duke Ellington.
