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Mooney, Art
Morrow, Buddy
Stacy, Jess, 1904-1995
Timbrell, Tiny, 1917-1992
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1930-1975
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1.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes, 1 map folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1388
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of 235 pieces of music ephemera assembled by an anonymous California musicologist over several decades. The contents include such things as concert ticket stubs; show programs; handbills; publicity stills; record store posters; nightclub souvenirs; autographs; contracts, lobby cards; movie stills; postcards; fan and record i...
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Jefferson, Yvonne Runtz
Jefferson, Maceo
Cargill, Thomas
Cargill, Darlene Johnson
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1800s-1974
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8 Cubic feet (26 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1370
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the life and career of jazz musician, arranger, songwriter, and bandleader Maceo Jefferson. It includes biographical documents such as birth and marriaige certificates and passports; letters, mostly relating to the music business and including carbon copies of letters sent by Jefferson; photographs, many inscribed, includin...
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Armstrong, Lucille
Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
Condon, Eddie, 1905-1973
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1895-2001
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25 Cubic feet (75 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0849
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Gabler's involvement in the recording industry and the evolution of Commodore Records. The documentation begins with the Commodore Radio Shop through its evolution to Commodore Music Shop. The collection also includes the beginnings of the Commodore record label and information detailing Gabler's 30 years as staff producer and later Vice-President in Charge of Artists and Repertoire at Decca Records (1941-1974). There is a small collection of black and white photographs chronicling the early years at the Commodore Music Shop, as well as jam sessions, often held at Jimmy Ryan's on 52nd Street. The collection also includes a vast array of audio recordings (mainly audiodiscs).
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Henderson, Horace, 1904-1988
Lewis, Barbara
Lewis, Barry
Henderson, Fletcher, 1897-1952
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1930s-1980s
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22.5 Cubic feet (82 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0797
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Fletcher and Horace Henderson Collection contains original scores and band books, loose sheet music, both original and published, from both Fletcher and Horace's libraries, playlists, lyrics, photographs, personal papers and correspondences, newspaper clippings, jazz publications, an oral history manuscript of an interview with Horace, audio ta...
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Davies, Diana, 1938-
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1963-2009
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3.83 Cubic feet (8 binders containing contact sheets, slides, and prints; 7 boxes (8.5"x10.75"x2.5") of 35 mm negatives; 2 binders of 35 mm and 120 format negatives; and 1 box of 11 oversize prints.)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.DAVIE
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Diana Davies photographs consist of images taken by Diana Davies at various stages of her career. Locations include the Festival of American Folklife, the Newport Folk Festival, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Poor People's Campaign, various peace and protest marches and outdoor performances, New York City, and the Georgia Sea Islands. The collection includes contact sheets, negatives, photographic prints, and slides. Original photographs, negatives, and color slides taken by Diana Davies. Materials date from 1963-2009. Bulk dates: Newport Folk Festival, 1963-1969, 1987, 1992; Philadelphia Folk Festival, 1967-1968, 1987.
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Piutti-Barth, Elizabeth, 1872-1959
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1893-1954
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250 Items ((on 2 partial microfilm reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.piuteliz
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Archives of American Art
An undated typescript of a lecture "Painting a Portrait"; exhibition catalogs and invitations, undated and 1911-1941; clippings, undated and 1919-1954; photographs of Piutti-Barth, her St. Botolph studio, her home, and her still life and portrait paintings. Subjects of portrait paintings include Governor of Massachusetts, Frank Allen, the actress, ...
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Coleman, Cinthea T., 1947-
McCracklin, Jimmy, 1931-
Kenner, Sonny
Stovall, Beverly
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1997-1998.
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1.6 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0657
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
49 VHS videotapes containing the Bluestime Power Hour television shows. The programs document the music and culture of such local American blues musicians as Jimmy McCracklin, Sonny Kenner, Guitar Shorty and Beverly Stovall.
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Federal Music Project (U.S.)
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1939-1942
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0.2 Linear feet ((ca. 60 items))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.fedemusi
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Archives of American Art
Material kept by Federal Music Project administrator Emily Mason Kahn, including printed and mimeographed booklets; brochures; programs and reports; carbon copies of memos; teaching material; and two photographs. [Microfilm title WPA-Federal Theater Project]
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Porter, Rufus, 1792-1884
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bulk 1852
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0.05 Cubic feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.1028
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of one 7.75 x 5 inch {dollar}5 stock certificate in Aerial Navigation Company, No. 779, dated 19 June 1852, to N. C. Brazeal. The certificate has been mounted.
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Mitchell, Bruce Handiside, 1908-1963
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1932-1965 and [undated]
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0.4 Linear feet ((on 3 microfilm reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.mitcbruc
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence; photographs; drawings; a typescript; lyrics; and clippings.