Photo Record
Images
Additional Images [10]
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.14.1007-1987.14.1060 |
Title |
Louis Armstrong Collection: Photographs, Box 14. "Louis Off Stage." |
Object Type |
Print, Photographic |
Year Range to |
1949 |
Year Range from |
1940 |
Description |
This box contains 53 prints of Louis Armstrong offstage from 1940-1949. Images include: Louis posing with many unidentified friends and fans; Louis and Lucille's wedding (including photos with Reverend Nance, Lucille's mother and Armstrong band vocalist Sonny Woods); Louis with a group of men in a radio studio including Jack Teagarden, Sid Catlett and Barney Bigard; with Los Angeles policeman next to automobile; next to band fronts, Louis buys stamps from girls (photo is autographed by photographer Langford P. James); with Joe Bushkin's baby (Nina) [autographed]; Louis and Lucille offstage with a group of people including Arvell and Madeline Shaw; Louis and Ernie Anderson with twin girls in airport; Louis autographs a book; Louis receives an award in nightclub; photo of Louis receiving an award from Leonard Feather (photo also includes Arvell Shaw and Cozy Cole and is autographed by Velma Middleton and "Willie Mae"; another photo from this series includes Barney Bigard and Velma Middleton); with witch hazel and cotton on his lips (photo is inscribed to Jimmy Moxon); at typewriter with unidentified man; with Bill Mark, photographer; in record store in 1949; with John Hammond (?) at a record shop (Louis and Lucille appear in the same record shop in photo in box 13); Louis receiving awards and gifts from young men in 1947; early photos of Louis and Lucille on the road; Lucille and Velma Middleton presenting Louis with a birthday cake; backstage with a tailor (?) holding up a garment of clothing ; multiple photos of Louis on the road with his reel-to-reel tape decks; thin Louis holding a mouthpiece after losing weight on a Harper's Bazaar diet; Charles Peterson photo of Louis on the phone; Charles Peterson photo of Louis with atomizer and "roaches"; Charles Peterson photo of Louis backstage at the Apollo Theater (photo missing as of 9/9/2010); Louis holding a piece of heavy artillery at an army base in the early 1940s; Louis, Ernie Anderson and Lucille Armstrong in a car coming from the Turin, Switzerland airport, October 25, 1949 (Louis applying lip salve to his lips); Louis signing an autograph for a young boy. (Photos on left constitute a representative sampling of images in this box.) |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Search Terms |
Louis Armstrong Collection -- Photographs Photographs -- Lucille Armstrong Photographs -- Armstrong Friends and Fans Photographs -- Armstrong with Musicians and Celebrities Apollo Theater Diets Louis Armstrong and His All Stars Switzerland Tape recordings, Audio |
People |
Anderson, Ernie Armstrong, Lucille Wilson Bigard, Barney Bushkin, Joe Bushkin, Nina Catlett, Sid Cole, Cozy Feather, Leonard James, Langford P. Middleton, Velma Peterson, Charles Shaw, Arvell Shaw, Madeleine Berard Teagarden, Jack Woods, Sonny |
Accession number |
1987.14 |