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circa 1860-1900
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3 Prints (albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.87-33
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National Anthropological Archives
The collection consists of studio portraits of Jamaican musicians. It includes two photographs by A. Duperly & Sons studio depicting members of the West Indian Regiment band in the Zouave uniform, as well as one photograph of a Jamaican man holding a violin.
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Pat and Chuck Bress Jazz Portrait Photographs
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Bress, Chuck
Bress, Pat
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1984-1990
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2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1219
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Primarily black-and-white photographic prints and photographic negatives created by Pat Bress and Chuck Bress in the late 1980s. The photographs depict jazz musicians and singers performing at two Washington, D.C. night clubs, Charley's Place and Blues Alley, in challenging lighting situations. Also, a box of correspondence and miscellaneous writte...
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Waagenaar, Emile
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1980-2008
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0.5 Cubic feet (64 items)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1150
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Environmental portraits of Cajun musicians: 64 inkjet photographic prints, 1980-2008, some in black-and-white and others in color.
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Barnhardt, Harry, 1874-1948
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1908-1948
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0.4 Linear feet (ca. 100 items)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.barnharr
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Business and personal correspondence, 1916-1948, with musician Arthur Farwell, designer Robert Edmond Jones, and architect Claude Bragdon; poetry, essays, and other writings; a pastel portrait of Barnhardt, 1948; photographs; brochures and clippings.
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Sun Ra
Gaskin, Leonard, 1920-
Taylor, Billy
Stokes, W. Royal, Dr., 1930-
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1970-2003
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9.65 Cubic feet (12 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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Acevedo, Edwin
Acevedo, Gilbert
Von Matthiessen, Maria
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1990-1998
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2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0622
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographic prints depicting Country and Western musicians. Many of the photographs are humorous, whimsical, or even surrealistic.
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Stewart, Charles, 1927-
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1964 - 1971
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0.15 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1321
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of twenty-five inkjet prints from original film negatives of John Coltrane and others. The majority of the photographs were taken by Stewart during the December 10, 1964 recording of Coltrane's biggest hit, "A Love Supreme". Some of the images include Coltrane's wife, Alice Coltrane, and others include musicians Pharoah Sand...
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Ball, Thomas, 1819-1911
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1874-1932
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1 Microfilm reel (1 volume on 1 partial microfilm reel)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.ballthom
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The microfilmed Thomas Ball guestbook/scrapbook includes signatures, poems, sketches, musical notations of European and American artists, writers, poets, musicians, and other dignitaries who visited Thomas Ball's studio or villa in Florence, Italy, Montclair, New Jersey, New York City, and Boston from 1874 to 1932. Among the many prominent signers ...
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Strauber, Alan
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ca. 1990-1999.
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0.2 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0517
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Forty-one black and white photoprints, most of which are portraits of jazz, blues, Cajun, and zydeco musicians, plus a few additional subjects.
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Smithsonian Productions
- Dates:
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1998-1999
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2.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (3 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-099
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession documents the production of "The Mississippi: River of Song." Better known as "River of Song," this project combined a television series, radio series, and 2-disc compact disc. The project as a whole explores the richness and vitality of American music at the close of the twentieth century through live performances and intimate ...