Archive Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2008.3.545 |
Title |
Miscellaneous |
Object Type |
Papers, Personal |
Collection |
Jack Bradley Collection |
Description |
One in a series of folders containing miscellaneous personal papers found in the Jack Bradley Collection. This folder contains a miscellaneous, hard-to-classify papers. Contents include: Flier about Dr. Gayelord Hauser's "Swiss Kriss Facial Sauna"; typed questions for someone interviewing Louis in 1966; French list of Louis tributes in 1973 and 1974; speech delivered to introduce Louis at the Rainbow Grill on August 25, 1969, before Louis was to introduce Duke Ellington; two sheets of white paper with a silhouette of Louis playing the trumpet; map of the Flushing Cemetery, where Louis's grave is located; multiple Spanish exams with references to Louis ("Tocaba y cantaba muy bien" means "He played and sang very well" and "Que m anera la suya de tocar la trompeta!" means "What a way he had of playing the trumpet!"); "The Armstrong Family and Its Coat of Arms," with a history of the Armstrong family name and copy of the coat of arms; blank stationary with the word "Jazz" on top; photocopy of an advertisement for the Steamer Sidney, the Streckfus Steamer Louis played on with Fate Marable; photocopy of a "New York Jazz Repertory Co. Louis Armstrong U.S.S.R. '75" button pin; copy of a Cancer horoscope from 1970, listing Louis as a famous cancer; map of Newport, Rhode Island; humorous photo with Jack Bradley sitting in a burning room (Bradley's head digitally added) and the words, "After Louis Armstrong Everything Else Seems Mundane"; advertisement for a series on Bix Beiderbecke (Bradley underlined all four mentions of Louis in the promo); photocopies of an Armstrong compact-disc reissue from Portugal that used a Bradley photo on the cover without attribution; two copies of Madeleine Gautier's transcript of Louis's recording of "Elder Eatmore's Sermon On Generosity"; Louis's schedule for his day at the World's Fair on June 30, 1964. |
People |
Beiderbecke, Bix Bradley, Jack Ellington, Duke Gautier, Madeleine Hauser, Gayelord Marable, Fate |
Search Terms |
New York Jazz Repertory Company Swiss Kriss World's Fair |
Year Range from |
1960 |
Year Range to |
2008 |
Accession number |
2008.3 |