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Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

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The Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection was donated to LaBudde Special Collections by Clayton's wife, Patricia. The collection, which spans from 1928 to Clayton’s death in 1991, contains material related to the jazz composer/arranger/trumpeter’s personal and professional life.

Items in Collection: 1,747

Topics

Asian American History & Representation

Black History & Representation

Civil Rights

Jazz, Big Band, & Music Industry

Kansas City History

1 - 4 of 4 items

Buck and Pat Clayton

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Buck Clayton and likely Pat Clayton, hugging cheek to cheek with big smiles.

Date Published

1964-06

Buck Clayton with Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, and Joe Bushkin

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Jackie Gleason seated with Buck Clayton, Joe Bushkin, Art Carney, and others; Embers Club, New York City.

Date Published

1951

Buck Clayton, Sammy Kaye, Art Carney, and Tommy Dorsey at a union meeting

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Buck Clayton (2nd from left), Sammy Kaye (4th from left, looking down), Art Carney (6th from left, looking down), and Tommy Dorsey (7th from left), standing with an unidentified group of people behind...

Photo album page the trip from Shanghai to Honolulu

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A person diving from the side of a ship beside a lifeboat captioned "Joe E. Brown taking picture"; People on a pier waving captioned "Leaving Honolulu"; an Asian man standing, with a walking stick and...

Date Published

1937

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Types (Collection)

photographs (4)

Genres (Collection)

Black & white photographs (3)
Gelatin silver prints (3)
Group portraits (3)
Snapshots (2)
Color photographs (1)

Time Periods (Collection)

1931-1940 (1)
1941-1950 (1)

Subjects (Collection)

African American jazz musicians (4)
Jazz musicians (4)
Trumpet players (3)
Comedians (2)
African American men (1)
African American women (1)
Band directors (1)
Beggars (1)
Men, White (1)
Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
Travelers (1)
Women, White (1)
(-) Celebrities (4)

Subjects, Geographic (Collection)

New York (N.Y.) (2)
Honolulu (Hawaii) (1)
Shanghai (China) (1)

Subjects, People (Collection)

Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (4)
Carney, Art, 1918-2003 (2)
Brown, Joe E. (Joe Evan), 1892-1973 (1)
Bushkin, Joe (1)
Clayton, Derb (1)
Clayton, Patricia (1)
Dorsey, Tommy, 1905-1956 (1)
Gleason, Jackie, 1916-1987 (1)
Jones, Philly Joe (1)
Kaye, Sammy, 1910-1987 (1)
Rayburn, Gene (1)
Simmons, Jean, 1929-2010 (1)
Traill, Sinclair (1)