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All about the fight at the Canidrome

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Tamara Lewis; Jimmie Carson; Joe McCutcheon with Teddy Weatherford; newspaper clippings about the fight in the Canidrome Ballroom that resulted in...

Date Published
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Canidrome Ballroom with an "X" where the fight took place.

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Buck Clayton and his Harlem Gentlemen performing before an audience at the Canidrome Ballroom with an "X" and a dotted line following where the fight...

Date Published
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Canidrome Ballroom with Mort Ruby pointed out

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Buck Clayton and his Harlem Gentlemen performing as people dance at the Canidrome Ballroom. Mort Ruby with an arrow is written on the picture...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Fletcher Henderson "America's Greatest Arranger"

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Publicity photo for Fletcher Henderson and his orchestra featuring Henderson facing forward and smiling. Henderson is wearing a white tuxedo and black...

Date Published
1937
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Jay McShann

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Publicity photo of Jay McShann sitting at an upright piano with one hand on the keys. The piano top is removed, revealing the inside hammers and...

Date Published
1937
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Jimmie Lunceford

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Publicity photo of Jimmie Lunceford sitting, turning forward, and smiling. Lunceford is wearing a white suit jacket and patterned tie.

Date Published
1936
1937
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Jimmie Lunceford

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Publicity photo of Jimmie Lunceford turning to the side and smiling. Lunceford is wearing a white suit jacket and patterned tie.

Date Published
1936
1937
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Jimmie Lunceford

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Publicity photo of Jimmie Lunceford leaning on a ledge with his arm up to the side. Lunceford is looking to the side and smiling, wearing a white suit...

Date Published
1936
1937
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Jimmie Lunceford playing the drums

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Publicity photo of Jimmy Crawford playing a tam-tam and surrounded by percussion equipment. Crawford is holding mallets in each hand and wearing a...

Date Published
1936
1937
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Photo album page mostly of Buck and Derb in Hawaii

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Buck and Derb with members of the band "A bunch at Hawaiians"; Buck and Derb with members of the band "Arriving in Honolulu"; Derb with three...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of Buck and Derb playing tennis

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Buck about to serve in tennis standing by the court net; an Asian man pulling a double rickshaw with two African American men on board, the first man...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

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...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of Buck Clayton and Derb in Hawaii

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Derb with Sonny Lewis titled "Sunshine Kids"; Derb with an unidentified person titled "Hotcha" & Derb; Derb in a grass skirt titled "The Hulu Gal"...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

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...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of Buck Clayton on the streets of Shanghai with other musicians

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Earl West on a rickshaw with a Asian rickshaw driver; Earl West on a rickshaw with a Asian rickshaw driver. The photo is double exposed; Buck standing...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of Buck, Derb, Tommy, and Sonny in China

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Derb with Sonny Lewis; members of the band; Buck with Tamara Lewis; Derb with Tamara Lewis; Derb with an unidentified Asian man with a bicycle; Buck...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of Buck, the band, wives, and dancers in Shanghai, China

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Buck and Derb kissing while leaning on a fence with Buck peeking at the photographer; Derb with a racially diverse group of people; Buck leaning his...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of Derb and the band in Shanghai, China

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Caricature of Teddy Weatherford on newsprint signed by Eveleigh; Tamara Lewis with Caughey Roberts; Tamara Lewis with Sonny Lewis and a sister; The...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of Derb in Honolulu

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Derb in evening gown and smoking "Mrs. Clayton, Please"; Derb with an unidentified group of people beside a horse and carriage "At the Pier"; Derb in...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of interesting people Buck and Derb met in China

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Derb with an unidentified woman (photo is overexposed); Buck Clayton on the ship, President Hoover; an unidentified smiling Asian man in a uniform...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of photos mostly of Derb in China

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Derb and Tamara Lewis in a rickshaw with an Asian driver; an unidentified group of people with Derb and Tamara around and on a rickshaw; Derb and...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of photos mostly taken in Hawaii and a couple of photos from China

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Boy with a surfboard; an unidentified man, possibly Jack Bratton; Derb with an unidentified woman and the boy with his surfboard; Buck Clayton beside...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of the Harlem Gentlemen band in China

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Members of the Harlem Gentlemen band captioned "Our Gang" & our Penthouse; an unidentified man possibly Baby Lewis; members of the band and an Asian...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of the ship to Honolulu and a few tourist sites

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Two unidentified men "Savage Serenade"; two members of the band, possibly Teddy Buckner and Duke Upshaw, "Two Brass Masters"; "Derb in Honolulu"...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

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...

Date Published
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

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  • African American jazz musicians

Member of

  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (20)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (7)

Types

  • photographs (24)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (27)
  • Gelatin silver prints (27)
  • Group portraits (15)
  • Portrait photographs (8)
  • Publicity photographs (7)
  • Clippings (3)
  • Scrapbooks (2)
  • Caricatures (1)

Time Periods

  • 1931-1940 (11)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (25)
  • African American men (16)
  • African American women (8)
  • Travelers (8)
  • Entertainers (7)
  • Rickshaws (7)
  • African American women entertainers (3)
  • Ocean travel (3)
  • Pianists (3)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Ballrooms (2)
  • Chinese (2)
  • Conductors (Music) (2)
  • Men (2)
  • Arrangers (1)
  • Ballroom dancing (1)
  • Band directors (1)
  • Band leaders (1)
  • Beggars (1)
  • Big bands (1)
  • Celebrities (1)
  • Composers (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Men, White (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • (-) African American jazz musicians (27)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Shanghai (China) (12)
  • Honolulu (Hawaii) (4)
  • China (3)
  • Hawaii (2)

Subjects, People

  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (16)
  • Clayton, Derb (13)
  • Lewis, Tamara (Entertainer) (3)
  • Lunceford, Jimmie (3)
  • Brown, Joe E. (Joe Evan), 1892-1973 (2)
  • Weatherford, Teddy, 1903-1945 (2)
  • Beal, Eddie, 1910-1984 (1)
  • Buckner, Teddy, 1909-1994 (1)
  • Carson, Jimmie (Jazz musician) (1)
  • Crawford, Jimmy (1)
  • Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 (1)
  • Henderson, Fletcher, 1897-1952 (1)
  • Lewis, Happy (1)
  • McCutcheon, Joe (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Myers, Bumps, 1912-1968 (1)
  • Roberts, Caughey (1)
  • Ruby, Mort (1)
  • Tilden, William T. (William Tatem), 1893-1953 (1)
  • West, Earl (1)
  • Wills, Helen, 1905-1998 (1)
  • Wilson, Teddy, 1912-1986 (1)

Date Published

  • 1934 (16)
  • 1936 (4)
  • (-) 1937 (27)

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