Bobby Tucker Papers
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Tucker, Irma
Tucker, Bobby, 1923-2008
Eckstine, Billy
Jones, Quincy, 1933-
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1883-2007, undated
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36 Cubic feet (88 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1141
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the life and musical career of Robert "Bobby" Tucker. The collection particularly emphasizes Tucker's close collaboration with Billy Eckstine over a forty-year period from approximately 1949-1990, and includes original orchestrations of arrangements by Tucker and other arrangers, a complete set of commercial recordings by Eckstine for which Tucker served as arranger, and ephemeral material including photographs, concert programs and news clippings.
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Blum, Morris
WANN Radio Station (Annapolis, Maryland)
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1940-1999
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13 Cubic feet (32 boxes and 12 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0800
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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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Richardson, Deborra
Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-
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circa 1822-1994
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6.55 Cubic feet (17 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0653
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the customs and culture of black gospel song and its performance in 19th- and 20th-century America. Dr. Reagon collected photographs, sheet music, and other primary and secondary sources chronicling the development and legacy of this medium, from the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement, from blues to Gospel to classical to jazz. Among the subjects included in this collection are trailblazers such as Charles Tindley, Thomas A. Dorsey, Rosetta Tharpe, Duke Ellington, and Nathaniel Dett. Noted performers are the Fisk Jubilee Singers, the Harmonizing Four, the Hampton University Choir, and the Chick Webb Orchestra.
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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
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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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Boatwright, Ruth Ellington, 1914-2004
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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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Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
Sparnon, Arabella S.
Sparnon, Kenneth H., 1895-1972
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1912-1961
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0.33 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0064
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Kenneth Sparnon, entertainer, musician and arranger was also an orchestra leader and musical director of radio station WSYR in Syracuse and WHEC in Rochester, New York. This collection includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, photographs of himself and other performers, advertising, programs, some correspondence, and broadcast transcriptions (acetate).
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National Museum of American History. Division of Culture and the Arts
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1976-2004, 2012
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1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-064
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of Dwight Blocker Bowers, Curator, which document his activities in producing public programs for the National Museum of American History (NMAH). Earlier records date from when Bowers was public programs specialist, 1995-1997, and historian of theater and film, 1997-2012, in the Division of Cultural ...
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Corlin, Portia Norvo
Norvo, Red, 1908-1999
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1932-1998
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4 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0858
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Correspondence, transcripts of interviews, photographs, a biography, a discography, an award, printed material and other miscellany documenting the life and career of Red Norvo.
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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
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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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Maltsby, Portia
Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
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1850-2004, undated
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100 Cubic feet (309 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0408
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection primarily documents the activities of the National Museum of American History's Program in African American Culture (PAAC) dating from 1979 through 2004. The Program in African American Culture (PAAC) created public programs documenting the black experience in the United States, as well as, other countries. Archival materials include photographs, programs, administrative files, magnetic tape, audiocassettes, U-matic and VHS video cassettes.