Photo Record
Images
Additional Images [1]
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.14.3278-1987.14.3373 |
Title |
Louis Armstrong Collection: Photographs, Box 48. "Collage Materials." |
Object Type |
Print, Photographic |
Year Range to |
1971 |
Year Range from |
1945 |
Description |
This box contains 96 cut-out images to be used in tape box collages (e.g., cut-out photos of fans, friends, family, etc.) made by Louis between 1950 and 1971. Images include: Multiple cut-outs of Louis; handwritten contents for Armstrong reels "88" and "89" that fell off the original boxes (they correspond to the reels found at 1987.3.142 and 1987.3.143); Louis and his sister Beatrice ("Mama Lucy"); Louis with fans; Louis performing with the All Stars (Trummy Young, Barney Bigard, Arvell Shaw and Barrett Deems); collage including Bert Williams and Sidney Bechet; Louis and Lucille departing an airplane; Louis and Velma Middleton; Louis with Hugues Panassie and Mezz Mezzrow; Louis performing with the All Stars with Velma Middleton, Cozy Cole and Arvell Shaw; shirtless Louis writing on a desk; Louis with the All Stars circa 1959 (Trummy Young, Danny Barcelona, Peanuts Hucko and Mort Herbert are pictured); Louis and Billy Kyle; Louis with Ernie Anderson, Lucille Armstrong and Erroll Garner (Kid Ory in background); Louis signing autographs in Paris with Mezz Mezzrow and Lucille; visiting musician in Paris hospital; Louis and the All Stars circa 1957 (Trummy Young, Edmond Hall, Billy Kyle, Squire Gersh, Barrett Deems and Velma Middleton); Velma Middleton with Senator John A. Powers at the state capitol in Boston in 1958; Louis and the All Stars onstage circa 1949 (Jack Teagarden, Barney Bigard, Arvell Shaw and Cozy Cole); Louis with June Clark; Louis with Leonard Feather; Doc Pugh; typed contents list for an unspecified tape; Louis and Stella Oliver; Louis looking a photo of a nude woman; Louis dining in Accra in 1956 with Lucille, James Moxon and Kwame Nkrumah; Louis onstage with Bobby Hackett, Jack Teagarden and Peanuts Hucko [possibly Winter Garden concert, June 1947?]; various cut-outs of people's heads; envelope filled with pieces of loose tape that fell off his boxes. (Photos on left constitute a representative sampling of images in this box.) |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Search Terms |
Louis Armstrong Collection -- Photographs Photographs -- Armstrong Family Photographs -- Armstrong Friends and Fans Photographs -- Armstrong with Musicians and Celebrities Photographs -- Lucille Armstrong Photographs -- International Tours and Travel Accra, Ghana Africa Blue Note (nightclub) Boston Chicago Collage France Louis Armstrong and His All Stars Paris Tape recordings, Audio |
People |
Anderson, Ernie Armstrong, Beatrice "Mama Lucy" Armstrong, Lucille Wilson Barcelona, Danny Bechet, Sidney Bigard, Barney Clark, June Cole, Cozy Deems, Barrett Feather, Leonard Garner, Erroll Gersh, Squire Hackett, Bobby Hall, Edmond Herbert, Mort Hucko, Peanuts Kyle, Billy Mezzrow, Mezz Middleton, Velma Moxon, James Nkrumah, Kwame Oliver, Stella Ory, Kid Panassie, Hugues Powers, John A. Pugh, Hazes "Doc" Shaw, Arvell Teagarden, Jack Williams, Bert Young, Trummy |
Accession number |
1987.14 |