Robert Udkoff Collection of Duke Ellington Ephemera
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- Creators:
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Udkoff, Robert, 1918- (businessman)
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1924-1990
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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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- Dates:
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1982-1989
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36.54 cu. ft. (58 document boxes) (7.54 tall document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 00-132
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Here At The Smithsonian was a series of short features for television created and produced by the staff of the Smithsonian's Office of Telecommunications between the years 1982 and 1989. The series was designed for public dissemination of information about Smithsonian exhibition and research activities. Each year had a volume number [1982...
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- Dates:
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1989-1993
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-210
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audiovisual materials created during the production of "Beyond Category: The Music of Duke Ellington," and "Duke Ellington, American Musician." "Beyond Category: The Music of Duke Ellington" accompanied the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service exhibition, "Beyond Category: The Musical Genius of Duke ...
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- Creators:
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Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
Brown, Don, 1923-1985
- Dates:
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1925-1973
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39 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0472
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An extensive collection of commercial recordings by Duke Ellington and his orchestra.
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Boatwright, Ruth Ellington, 1914-2004
- Dates:
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1923–1992
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33 Cubic feet (77 boxes, 3 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0415
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of correspondence, appointment books, business records, music manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, and ephemera documenting the activities of Duke Ellington and the management of Tempo Music, Incorporated. There is a small amount of material relating to the Ellingotn family.
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- Creators:
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Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
- Dates:
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1903 - 1989
- Size:
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400 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0301
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Duke Ellington's career primarily through orchestrations (scores and parts), music manuscripts, lead sheets, transcriptions, and sheet music. It also includes concert posters, concert programs, television, radio, motion picture and musical theater scripts, business records, correspondence, awards, as well as audiotapes, audiodiscs, photographs, tour itineraries, newspaper clippings, magazines, caricatures, paintings, and scrapbooks.
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Basie, Count, 1904-
Smith, Ernie
Webster, Ben
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
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1894-1979
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30 Cubic feet (352 film reels , 16 mm)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0491
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
More than 300 reels of 16mm black and white and color film, silent and sound, fiction and documentary motion picture film documenting jazz and related musical performances, social and popular dance styles and performances, jazz musicians, performance locales, and documentation of African-American popular culture. A list of featured performers in the collection is shown below. The films are frequently compilations produced by Smith for lectures.
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Dimmer, Dennis
Brown, N.H.
Barkin, Stanley
Walburn, Jerry
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1914-2017
- Size:
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3.2 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0386
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Bulletins, programs, broadsides, newsletters, newsclippings, periodicals, photographs, published sheet music and audio and videotapes documenting the life and career of Duke Ellington and the activities of the Ellington Jazz and Music societies.
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Claxton, William
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1955-1960.
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1 Cubic foot (28 items)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0695
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs consist of 16 x 20 inch silver gelatin; selenium-toned archival photographic prints of jazz musicians performing and recording music throughout the United States.
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Celley, Al
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
- Dates:
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1943-1989
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2.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 2 films)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1240
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A diverse collection of papers assembled by Duke Ellington's road manager, Al Celley. The collection includes correspondence, photographs of Ellington and his orchestra at various times and locations; concert ephemera; handwritten notes; business and financial documents, primarily receipts; and travel ephemera.
