Photo Record
Images
Additional Images [7]
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.14.1370-1987.14.1417 |
Title |
Louis Armstrong Collection: Photographs, Box 21. "Louis Armstrong with Musicians and Celebrities" |
Object Type |
Print, Photographic |
Year Range to |
1971 |
Year Range from |
1950 |
Description |
This box contains 48 prints of Louis Armstrong with musicians and celebrities between 1922 and 1970. Images include: King Oliver; Louis with his big band, c. 1942-47 (Sid Catlett lifting Lucille Armstrong; includes a copy with the names of all the band members written on the print); Bill Robinson and others; Louis wearing a kilt, pretending to stab another trumpeter with a knife; Sid Catlett; Velma Middleton and Lucille; Lionel Hampton; Spencer Tracy and James Gleason; multiple photos of Louis and Jack Teagarden (in two of them, they play different instruments, one with Earl Hines in the background); Dizzy Gillespie and All Stars (Arvell Shaw, Sid Catlett); Louis at a table with Jack Teagarden, Sid Catlett, Velma Middleton and Barney Bigard; Louis with the early 1954 All Stars (Barney Bigard, Trummy Young, Arvell Shaw, Kenny John); All Stars pretend they are midgets at the Blue Note in 1953 (Arvell Shaw, Barney Bigard, Marty Napoleon, Cozy Cole); Maxine Sullivan; Ed Sullivan, Helen Hayes, Lucille, and others; Louis and contortionist; Gilbert Millstein and Robert Merrill; Louis on the set of the San Francisco television program "Hi-Time" with Dorothy "Dottie" Hansen; Dick Overton; Mrs. Danny Kaye (Sylvia Fine); Ella Fitzgerald and Lionel Hampton; Trummy Young (inscribed from Young, "To Pops, the greatest cat I know, your boy, Trummy Young"); Hot Lips Page; Buck Clayton; Jimmy Bivins and Pierre "Frenchy" Tallerie; Harold Lloyd; Tommy Dorsey; Leonard Feather; Duke Ellington at Tony's Tavern; Louis at a restaurant with Barrett Deems, Velma Middleton, Doc Pugh, Lucille, Ernie Anderson, Trummy Young, Billy Kyle, Dale Jones and others; Louis and Trummy Young; Louis with Marty Napoleon, Phil Napoleon and Gordon Jenkins. (Photos on left constitute a representative sampling of images in this box.) |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Search Terms |
Louis Armstrong Collection -- Photographs Photographs -- Armstrong with Musicians and Celebrities Blue Note (nightclub) Chicago Louis Armstrong and His All Stars |
People |
Anderson, Ernie Armstrong, Lucille Wilson Bigard, Barney Bivins, Jimmy Catlett, Sid Clayton, Buck Cole, Cozy Deems, Barrett Dorsey, Tommy Ellington, Duke Feather, Leonard Fine, Sylvia Fitzgerald, Ella Gillespie, Dizzy Gleason, James Hampton, Lionel Hansen, Dorothy Hayes, Helen Hines, Earl Jenkins, Gordon Jones, Dale Kyle, Billy Lloyd, Harold Merrill, Robert Middleton, Velma Millstein, Gilbert Napoleon, Marty Napoleon, Marty Napoleon, Phil Oliver, King Overton, Dick Page, Hot Lips Pugh, Hazes "Doc" Shaw, Arvell Sullivan, Ed Sullivan, Maxine Tallerie, Pierre "Frenchy" Teagarden, Jack Tracy, Spencer Young, Trummy |
Subjects |
Contortionists |
Accession number |
1987.14 |