Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.14.1327-1987.14.1369 |
Title |
Louis Armstrong Collection: Photographs, Box 20. "Louis Off Stage." |
Object Type |
Print, Photographic |
Year Range to |
1971 |
Year Range from |
1950 |
Description |
This box contains 42 prints of Louis Armstrong offstage from 1950-1971. Images include: Multiple photos of Louis and Lucille (including photo at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco in 1963 and in London in 1968); with fans backstage (some photos include Lucille, Velma Middleton, Doc Pugh and other); photos with fans at the Blue Note in Chicago; with twin men; holding trumpet; fan sprays seltzer into Louis's trumpet; Louis makes General (his dog) jump for a potato chip; receives award from Times Picayune during his return to New Orleans in 1965; color photo of Louis and Dr. Gary Zucker; multiple photos taken by Ed Lawless of Louis offstage and on during his 70th birthday party at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on July 3, 1970. Shrine photos include photos of a giant birthday cake, musicians rehearsing (including Benny Carter, Clark Terry, Louis Bellson, Tyree Glenn and Barney Bigard), Louis with Rose Fehring and Dottie Lawless, Louis performing onstage at the Shrine, Louis with clarinetist Maxim Saury, Louis drinking from cognac bottle that has Louis Armstrong label, Louis with Maxim Saury, Floyd Levin, Bill Grosvenor and Claude Luter. (Photos on left constitute a representative sampling of images in this box.) |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Search Terms |
Louis Armstrong Collection -- Photographs Photographs -- Armstrong Offstage Photographs -- Performances Photographs -- Lucille Armstrong Photographs -- Domestic Tours and Travel Photographs -- Armstrong with Musicians and Celebrities Blue Note (nightclub) Chicago England London Los Angeles New Orleans San Francisco |
People |
Armstrong, Lucille Wilson Bellson, Louis Bigard, Barney Carter, Benny Fehring, Rose Glenn, Tyree Grosvenor, Bill Lawless, Dottie Lawless, Ed Levin, Floyd Luter, Claude Middleton, Velma Pugh, Hazes "Doc" Saury, Maxim Terry, Clark Zucker, Gary |
Accession number |
1987.14 |