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3 Deuces Club

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3 Deuces marquee advertising a performance by Coleman Hawkins as well as the Tiny Grimes Trio.

Date Published
1947
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Aerial shot of Chin Lee

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Aerial shot of Chin Lee's.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Apollo Theater marquee

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Apollo Theatre marquee advertising a performance featuring Sy Oliver's band in Harlem, New York.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Apollo Theater marquee

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Apollo Theatre marquee advertising a performance featuring the Mills Brothers and the Andy Kirk Band in Harlem, New York.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Apollo Theater marquee

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Apollo Theatre marquee advertising a performance featuring Arnett Cobb's' band and Sid Catlet's band in Harlem, New York.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Apollo Theater marquee

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Apollo Theatre marquee advertising a performance featuring Billy Eckstine, Jimmie Lunceford's Band and Eddie Wilcox in Harlem, New York.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Broadcast from inside Carnegie Hall

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Carnegie Hall is full of spectators (white men and women) to listen to a broadcast of possible a symphony. A few string players (all white) are...

Date Published
1941
1949
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Buck Clayton outside the Famous Door

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Buck Clayton standing with an unidentified man under the awning of the Famous Door on 52nd Street in New York City.

Date Published
1938
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck, Ben, and Benny at the Famous Door

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Ben Webster speaking with Benny Morton and Buck Clayton under the awning of the Famous Door on 52nd Street in New York City.

Date Published
1938
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Carnegie Hall exterior

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Carnegie Hall exterior during the daytime. Carnegie hall Pharmacy is on the corner of 7th Avenue and W. 57th Street. The words, "Music Hall founded by...

Date Published
1941
1949
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Club Downbeat

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Club Downbeat marquee at night advertising a performance of Dizzy Gillespie and a poster advertising a performance of the Barbara Carroll Trio.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Crowd outside a theater

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Nighttime shot of an unidentified theater marquee, likely in New York, advertising a performance of Carmen Cavallaro and his Orchestra along with Bing...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Eddie Barefield at the Famous Door

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Eddie Barefield standing under the awning of the Famous Door on 52nd Street in New York City.

Date Published
1938
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Eduardo Hurato at the City Light Jazz Club

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Eduardo Hurato singing at the City Light Jazz Club in Kansas City, Missouri. He is holding a microphone and looking to the side. He is on a stage in...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Eduardo Hurato at the City Light Jazz Club

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Eduardo Hurato singing at the City Light Jazz Club in Kansas City, Missouri. He is holding a microphone and looking down while singing. An...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Eduardo Hurato at the City Light Jazz Club

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Eduardo Hurato singing at the City Light Jazz Club in Kansas City, Missouri. He is holding a microphone and looking to the side. He is on a stage in...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Gathering outside the Famous Door and Club Nocturne

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Buck Clayton, Ben Webster, Eddie Barefield, and an unidentified man in suspenders standing outside the Famous Door on 52nd Street in New York City...

Date Published
1938
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Gem Theater

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Gem Theater exterior at night.

Date Published
January-01-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Jazz musicians at the City Light Jazz Club

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Jazz musicians performing at the City Light Jazz Club in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: an unidentified man holding a saxophone in the...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Ken Barry at the City Light Jazz Club

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Ken Barry performing at the City Light Jazz Club in Kansas City, Missouri. He is playing saxophone and holding it directly into a microphone. Another...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Night shot outside of Small's Paradise

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Exterior nighttime shot of Small's Paradise in Harlem, New York City.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Outside Joe Louis' bar

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Outside shot of Joe Louis' Bar in New York; pedestrians and a few cars seen in front.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Outside Lowe's Penn Theater

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A theater marquee advertising a performance of Jackie Gleason; theater street sign reads Loew's Penn.; in Pittsburgh at 6th and Penn.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Outside Madison Square Garden

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Exterior daytime shot of the entrance to Madison Square Garden in New York.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Outside of Club Downbeat

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Club Downbeat marquee at night advertising a performance of Dizzy Gillespie.

Date Published
1946
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

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Member of

  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (32)
  • Betty Crow Collection (7)
  • Ted Malone Collection (3)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (43)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (40)
  • Snapshots (39)
  • Cityscape photographs (30)
  • Architectural photographs (28)
  • Group portraits (10)
  • Portrait photographs (8)
  • Color photographs (3)
  • Aerial photographs (1)
  • (-) Gelatin silver prints (43)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (8)
  • 1941-1950 (3)

Subjects

  • Buildings (27)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (14)
  • Jazz musicians (12)
  • Signs and signboards (9)
  • Marquees (8)
  • Streets (8)
  • African American jazz musicians (6)
  • Double bassists (4)
  • Pedestrians (4)
  • Awnings (3)
  • Men, White (2)
  • Motion picture theaters (2)
  • Musicians (2)
  • Saxophonists (2)
  • Aerial views (1)
  • African American men (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Bank buildings (1)
  • Bunting (Cloth) (1)
  • Conductors (Music) (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Hotels (1)
  • Hydrants (1)
  • Symphonies (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • (-) Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) (43)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Harlem (New York, N.Y.) (14)
  • New York (N.Y.) (12)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (8)
  • 18th and Vine District (1)
  • Chicago (Ill.) (1)
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.) (1)
  • Toronto (Ont.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (6)
  • Hurato, Eduardo (4)
  • Barefield, Eddie, 1909-1991 (3)
  • Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 (3)
  • Gleason, Jackie, 1916-1987 (3)
  • Webster, Ben, 1909-1973 (3)
  • Barry, Ken (2)
  • Morton, Benny (2)
  • Brown, Olive, 1922-1981 (1)
  • Calett, Sid, 1910-1951 (1)
  • Cavallaro, Carmen, 1913-1989 (1)
  • Cobb, Arnett, 1918-1989 (1)
  • Crosby, Bing, 1903-1977 (1)
  • Eckstine, Billy (1)
  • Garrison, Arv (1)
  • Garry, Vivien (1)
  • Hawkins, Coleman (1)
  • Kaye, Teddy (1)
  • Kirk, Andy, 1898-1992 (1)
  • Lunceford, Jimmie (1)
  • Oliver, Sy (1)
  • Power, Tyrone, 1914-1958 (1)
  • Wilcox, Eddie, 1907-1968 (1)

Date Published

  • 1941 (24)
  • 1950 (21)
  • 1991 (7)
  • 1995 (7)
  • 1938 (5)
  • 1949 (3)
  • 1951 (3)
  • 1960 (3)
  • 1946 (2)
  • 1947 (1)
  • 1999-01-01 (1)

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