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Catalog Number

1987.8.02

Title

[Scrapbook 2]

Object Type

Scrapbook

Collection

Louis Armstrong Collection

Description

Scrapbook belonging to Louis and/or Lucille Armstrong. Compiled by Alpha Armstrong. Contents include: News clippings about the following topics: reviews of Louis live with the Hot Five, Clarence Jones, Carroll Dickerson and Erskine Tate; advertisement for Louis at the Sunset Café; Ollie Powers’s funeral; Mae Alix; obituary for Mayann Armstrong; Percy Venable; Louis’s return to New Orleans; Walter Winchell on “You Rascal You”; “Connie’s Hot Chocolates”; ticket stubs for many Armstrong performances, as well as boxing matches and baseball games attended with Alpha Smith; Louis Armstrong Special cigar; Armstrong’s Secret Nine baseball team; souvenir canoe postcard from Louis to Alpha; theater programs; flyer announcing Louis Armstrong Day with the Armstrong Secret Nine baseball team in a double header (Monday, August 17th, 1931) in New Orleans, LA.; gag permits signed by Alpha in 1927 allowing Louis to “do what he pleases” and to “enjoy sexual intercourse” with her; Les Hite; advertisements for records of “You Made Me Love You,” “Basin Street Blues” and “No”; many snapshots of Louis and his band travelling from Chicago to New York in 1929, including a number of photos of them in Niagra Falls; snapshots of Louis with Zutty Singleton and “Too Sweet”; snapshots from California in 1931.

People

Alix, Mae
Armstrong, Alpha Smith
Dickerson, Carroll
Hite, Les
Jones, Clarence
Powers, Ollie
Singleton, Zutty
Tate, Erskine

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Scrapbooks Assembled by Louis or Lucille Armstrong

Year Range from

1927

Year Range to

1930

Accession number

1987.8

Condition date

2010-08-30