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Photo album page of Buck and the band in China with a signed Duke Ellington portrait

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Buck Clayton standing in white suit with handwritten caption "Tropical"; signed "To Buck Clayton Best Wishes Duke Ellington" portrait of Duke Ellington in script and green ink and captioned "The Duke"; Buck, Babe and Sonny Lewis riding a rickshaw with two band members pulling the rickshaw captioned Shanghai Yellow Cab; Buck and Derb with an unidentified woman captioned Babe Buck Derb; Buck and Joe McCutcheon with two unidentified men, possibly Cole Porter or Sam Browne or unidentified and Baby Lewis, captioned All Otays; Joe McCutcheon and Buck Clayton pulling a rickshaw with the Asian rickshaw driver in the rickshaw and captioned "Left Side"; Shanghai, China. Side 1 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: "Tropical", "The Duke", and Shanghai Yellow Cab. Bottom row, left to right: Babe Buck Derb, "All Otays", and "Left Side".

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

Extent Of Original
6 photographs : black and white print ; 11 x 7 cm on card mount 27 x 34 cm
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection
Source File
umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1502.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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