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Photo album page of Buck Clayton in Shanghai with friends

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Buck Clayton standing in white suit and skull cap; Joe McCutcheon and Baby Lewis with an unidentified Asian man, and Buck Clayton's head just out of the left of the photo mugging for the camera; Joe McCutcheon and Baby Lewis with an unidentified Asian man and "Babe"; Derb hugging Babe; Buck pulling Derb in a rickshaw with Baby Lewis and Joe McCutcheon standing on each side of her; Joe McCutcheon with Derb, Babe, and Baby Lewis; Shanghai, China. Side 2 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Date Published
1934
1937
Subjects
African American jazz musicians
Jazz musicians
Entertainers
Rickshaws
African American men
African American women
Subjects, Geographic
Shanghai (China)
Notes

No date; likely between 1934 and 1937

6 photos mounted on a photo album page with handwritten captions. Top row, left to right: Holt Caste, The Rifters, and Snake Hips & Co. Bottom row, left: Babe & Derb.

Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

Extent Of Original
6 photographs : black and white print ; various sizes on card mount 27 x 34 cm
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection
Source File
umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1503.tif
Genres
Gelatin silver prints
Black & white photographs
Group portraits
Types
photographs
Physical Location
LaBudde Special Collections
Rights
All collection images may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent use and/or distribution in print or electronically. Please contact LaBudde Special Collections for more information.

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