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Baby elephant gets a meal

Image

Candy, the baby elephant at the Bronx Zoo, from her right side, is being fed straw by a white male keeper, from his left side, kneeling down to hold...

Date Published
1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Buck Clayton on stage playing trumpet

Image

Buck Clayton on stage playing trumpet with unidentified double bassist, possibly Isla Eckinger, behind him in Zürich, Switzerland.

Date Published
1953
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton speaking with fans in France

Image

Buck Clayton dining with drummer Gérard "Dave" Pochonet and two unidentifed fans (white man and white woman) while in Paris, France.

Date Published
1953
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton with Bill Tamper

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Bill Tamper, holding his trombone, speaking with Buck Clayton in Paris, France.

Date Published
1953
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton with Don Byas and Gerard Pochonet at a restaurant in France

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Buck Clayton dining with Don Byas and Gerard Pochonet (likely) at a restaurant in Paris, France.

Date Published
1953
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton with Gerard Pochonet and others in France

Image

Buck Clayton standing with Gérard "Dave" Pochonet, Charles Delaunay, and two other unidentified white men in Paris, France.

Date Published
1953
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton, Mezz Mezzrow and Big Chief Russell Moore performing

Image

Buck Clayton playing trumpet with Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow, clarinet and probably Big Chief Russell Moore (Pima, or Akimel O'odham, tribe member) on...

Date Published
1953
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Four men look over the situation of transporting the Rockefeller Center's 1953 choice for a Christmas tree

Image

Four white men stand at the base of the Rockefeller Center's 1953 choice for a Christmas tree near Morristown, New Jersey, being prepared for...

Date Published
1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Gerard Pochonet playing drums

Image

Publicity photo of Gérard "Dave" Pochonet playing drums and smiling up at the camera.

Date Published
1953
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Hippopotamus calf being fed at the Bronx Zoo

Image

A hippopotamus calf, from its left side, smells a large pan a white male zookeeper is bending to place of the ground at the Bronx Zoo in New York...

Date Published
1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Museum technician creates tree bark for an exhibit space

Image

A white male museum technician kneels as he places preparation for bark in order to make a tree for a grizzly bear group at the American Museum of...

Date Published
1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Rockefeller Center stage of the Rockefeller Center Music Hall

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Rockefeller Center stage of the Rockefeller Center Music Hall is full of actors (white) during a production including monks, nuns, and others with...

Date Published
1953
1954
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Seven men line up the Rockefeller Center's 1953 choice for a Christmas tree on the logging truck

Image

Seven white men help line up the Rockefeller Center's 1953 choice for a Christmas tree on a logging truck to be loaded for transport. The truck is...

Date Published
1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Two men restoring the sperm whale exhibit

Image

Two white men restore the sperm whale skeleton exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York. One stands on...

Date Published
1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Workers begin cutting down the Rockefeller Center's 1953 choice for a Christmas tree with a chain saw

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A white workman bends down wearing a ball cap and smoking a cigar as he operates a chain saw already partially in the tree being cut down as the...

Date Published
1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Workers preparing the Rockefeller Center's 1953 choice for a Christmas tree for transport

Image

Four workers (white men) prepare the Rockefeller Center's 1953 choice for a Christmas tree, a Norway spruce near Morristown, New Jersey, by tying up...

Date Published
1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Workers use a crane to load the Rockefeller Center's 1953 choice for a Christmas tree

Image

Three workmen (two white, one African American) stand on the ground to help to anchor the Rockefeller Center's 1953 choice for a Christmas tree, a...

Date Published
1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Zookeeper milking a cow

Image

A white male zookeeper is milking a Jersey cow as a little white girl and a white woman, both in dresses, look on, at the Bronx Zoo's Farm-in-the-Zoo...

Date Published
1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection
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  • 1953
  • Men, White

Member of

  • Ted Malone Collection (11)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (7)

Types

  • photographs (18)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (18)
  • Gelatin silver prints (18)
  • Group portraits (14)
  • Snapshots (5)
  • Portrait photographs (2)
  • Publicity photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (11)

Subjects

  • African American men (7)
  • Jazz musicians (7)
  • Jazz musicians, White (7)
  • African American jazz musicians (6)
  • Christmas trees (5)
  • Norway spruce (5)
  • Women, White (4)
  • Trumpet players (3)
  • Zoo keepers (3)
  • Zoos (3)
  • Dinners and dining (2)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Museum exhibits (2)
  • Natural history museums (2)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • Akimel O'odham (1)
  • Chain saws (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Cigars (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Dairy cattle (1)
  • Deep sea animals (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Elephants (1)
  • Fans (Persons) (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Guernsey cattle (1)
  • Hippopotamus (1)
  • Jersey cattle (1)
  • Logging trucks (1)
  • Milking (1)
  • Mobile cranes (1)
  • Monks (1)
  • Museum exhibits--Conservation and restoration (1)
  • Native American men (1)
  • Nuns (1)
  • Pima Indians (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Sperm whale (1)
  • Theater (1)
  • (-) Men, White (18)

Subjects, Geographic

  • New York (N.Y.) (6)
  • Morristown (N.J.) (5)
  • Paris (France) (4)

Subjects, People

  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (6)
  • Pochonet, Gerard (4)
  • Byas, Don (1)
  • Delaunay, Charles (1)
  • Eckinger, Isla (1)
  • Mezzrow, Mezz, 1899-1972 (1)
  • Moore, Russell, 1912-1983 (1)
  • Tamper, Bill (1)

Date Published

  • 1954 (1)
  • (-) 1953 (18)

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