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Billy Butterfield playing trumpet in studio

Image

Billy Butterfield wearing a striped t-shirt and playing trumpet into a Capitol Records microphone hanging from the ceiling of a recording studio.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Billy Butterfield reading music and holding trumpet

Image

Billy Butterfield looking down to read some music in a studio while holding his trumpet. Behind Butterfield are music stands and a Capitol Records...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Buck Clayton Benny Morton and others

Image

Buck Clayton, trumpet with: Benny Morton, Jack Butler, Mezz Mezzrow, Max Kaminsky, Eddie Barefield, Cliff Jackson with microphone and the man seated...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Burt Lancaster in "The Killers"

Image

"The Big Fight, one of the news photographers' favorite subjects, as seen in Mark Hellinger's production of "The Killers," is incidental to the...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Clark Cookingham walks on sidewalk with Harriette W. Cookingham

Image

Clark Cookingham wearing overcoat and sweater with a D on it walks on sidewalk with Harriette W. Cookingham who wears a Leopard fur lined coat.

Date Published
1942
1946
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Drummer and bassist

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An unidentified African American male bass player and white male drummer performing on stage in New York.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Elsa Maxwell at reception

Image

Members of the Yakama tribe who appeared in the Technicolor film “Canyon Passage” holding a reception for Elsa Maxwell and others, presenting her with...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Kenny Kersey and Buck Clayton hanging out with the combo

Image

Buck Clayton lighting a cigarette and smiling; Kenny Kersey on piano with an unidentified group of musicians (African American and white).

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Lt. General "Yo Ho" Lear

Image

Lt. General "Yo Ho" Lear in uniform on left sits next to L. Perry Cookingham.

Date Published
1946
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Maurice Abravenel conducting

Image

Maurice Abravanel conducting with baton raised at the podium wearing tuxedo with white bowtie. Audience is out of focus in the background.

Date Published
1946
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Maurice Hart

Image

Headshot of broadcaster Maurice Hart turned to the side and looking forward. Hart is behind a KFWB microphone, wearing glasses, a dark jacket, and...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Pat Dexter, Dave Dexter, and Ed Flynn

Image

Pat Dexter, Dave Dexter, and Ed Flynn seated at a dining table with an unidentified white man and woman. Pat Dexter is seated on far left with hands...

Date Published
1943
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Perry Como and Lloyd Shaffer

Image

Lloyd Shaffer conducting and Perry Como singing during a recording session for Chesterfield Supper Club. Como is behind Schaffer looking at a music...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Sidney Bechet, Mezz Mezzrow and others

Image

Sidney Bechet, Mezz Mezzrow, clarinets, Jack Butler, trumpet, and Wilbur DeParis, trombone.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Sidney Bechet, Mezz Mezzrow, Jack Butler

Image

Mezz Mezzrow performing with Sidney Bechet and Jack Butler.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Smiley Burnett, Joseph Redmond, and a group of unidentified men at the Muehlebach Hotel

Image

Smiley Burnett (at piano) with Joseph Redmond (far right) and a group of unidentified white men at the Muehlebach Hotel in Kansas City, Mo.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Trummy Young, Illinois Jacquet and others

Image

Shot from behind of Trummy Young, trombone, Kenny Kersey, Buck Clayton, Illinois Jacquet and others on stage in New York.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Warren Durrett and Ruth Anne Gay at a restaurant

Image

Ruth Anne Gay in a dress with curly hair, seated next to Warren Durrett in a suit and tie, with his arm behind her, at a round restaurant table. There...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Woman singer seated in front of the Warren Durrett Orchestra

Image

Unidentified white woman in a dress seated on a wooden stage behind a microphone, in front of the Warren Durrett Orchestra. The band members are...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Woman singing with the Warren Durrett Orchestra

Image

Unidentified white woman in a dress standing on a wooden stage, singing into a microphone, in front of the Warren Durrett Orchestra. The band members...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection
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  • 1946
  • Men, White

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (8)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (6)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (3)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (2)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (20)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (20)
  • Gelatin silver prints (20)
  • Snapshots (16)
  • Group portraits (15)
  • Portrait photographs (6)
  • Publicity photographs (3)
  • Film stills (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (14)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (11)
  • Jazz musicians, White (11)
  • Trumpet players (7)
  • African American jazz musicians (6)
  • African American men (6)
  • Women, White (6)
  • Conductors (Music) (4)
  • Clarinetists (3)
  • Jazz singers (3)
  • Trombonists (3)
  • Actors (2)
  • Big bands (2)
  • Dinners and dining (2)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Actresses (1)
  • Armed Forces--Officers (1)
  • Boxers (Sports) (1)
  • Boxing (1)
  • City managers (1)
  • Coats (1)
  • Comedians (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Ethnic costume (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Jazz ensembles (1)
  • Native American men (1)
  • Racism in popular culture (1)
  • Radio broadcasters (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (1)
  • Yakama Indians (1)
  • (-) Men, White (20)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Estes Park (Colo.) (2)
  • Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation (1)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Butler, Jack, 1909- (3)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (3)
  • Mezzrow, Mezz, 1899-1972 (3)
  • Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959 (2)
  • Butterfield, Billy, 1917-1988 (2)
  • Durrett, Warren (2)
  • Kersey, Kenny, 1916-1983 (2)
  • Abravanel, Maurice, 1903-1993 (1)
  • Barefield, Eddie, 1909-1991 (1)
  • Barker, Jim, 1921- (1)
  • Buckner, Milt (1)
  • Burnette, Smiley, 1911-1967 (1)
  • Charlie, Job (1)
  • Como, Perry, 1912-2001 (1)
  • Cookingham, Clark G. (1)
  • Cookingham, Harriette W. (1)
  • Cookingham, L. Perry (Laurie Perry), 1896-1992 (1)
  • Costello, Lou (1)
  • De Carlo, Yvonne (1)
  • De Paris, Wilbur (1)
  • Dexter, Dave (1)
  • Dexter, Pat (1)
  • Flynn, Ed (1)
  • Gay, Ruth Anne (1)
  • Hart, Maurice, 1909-1978 (1)
  • Jackson, Cliff, 1902-1970 (1)
  • Jacquet, Illinois (1)
  • Kaminsky, Max, 1908-1994 (1)
  • Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994 (1)
  • Lear, Ben, 1979-1966 (1)
  • Looney, Jim (Yakama tribe member) (1)
  • Maxwell, Elsa (1)
  • Morton, Benny (1)
  • Redmond, Joseph K., 1913-1996 (1)
  • Ryan, Peggy, 1924-2004 (1)
  • Shaffer, Lloyd (1)
  • Thompson, Henry (Yakama tribe member) (1)
  • Turner, Jim (Yakama tribe member) (1)
  • Yallup, Thomas (1)
  • Yallup, William (1)
  • Young, Trummy (1)

Date Published

  • 1942 (1)
  • 1943 (1)
  • 1950 (1)
  • (-) 1946 (20)

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