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Danny Kaye leading band of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Louis Armstrong, and Lionel Hampton

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Danny Kaye performing with a band featuring Benny Goodman playing clarinet, Tommy Dorsey playing trombone, Charlie Barnet playing saxophone, Louis...

Date Published
1948
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong

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Publicity photo of Louis Armstrong grinning and turned toward camera. Armstrong is wearing a striped suit and tie with one hand extended while holding...

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong

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Louis Armstrong wearing black rimmed glasses and playing trumpet into recording studio microphones.

Date Published
1955
1960
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong

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Publicity photo of Louis Armstrong turned away from the camera, wearing a striped suit and tie.

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong

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Headshot of Louis Armstrong playing the trumpet while looking up.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday

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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet over Billie Holiday's shoulder in a publicity photo shoot in Hollywood, California. Armstrong is wearing a suit and...

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

Louis Armstrong and Dave Dexter

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Louis Armstrong and Dave Dexter standing shoulder to shoulder and smiling. Armstrong is holding a trumpet and pointing at Dexter who is holding a pile...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong and Dave Dexter

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Louis Armstrong and Dave Dexter sitting at the piano. Armstrong is smiling and pointing to his trumpet while Dexter looks forward.

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong and lilacs

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Louis Armstrong, wearing a white helmet of some sort and holding and armful of lilacs arrives in Sweden greeted by a military looking person and...

Date Published
June-10-1965
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Louis Armstrong and Lucille Wilson

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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet with one hand and embracing Lucille Wilson with the other. Wilson stand behind Armstrong and holds his legs.

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong and unidentified woman at piano

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Louis Armstrong and an unidentified woman sitting at the piano. Armstrong is smiling and holding his trumpet while the woman smiles and looks up.

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong looking over his Esquire Awards acquired from 1942-1947 inclusive

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Publicity photo of Louis Armstrong wearing a pinstripe suit and grinning. Armstrong is standing next to six Esquire Awards on a shelf.

Date Published
1948
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet

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Louis Armstrong wearing a suit and tie while playing trumpet and looking to the side.

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet

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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet in a 3/4 turn toward the camera. Armstrong is wearing a formal jacket with large buttons and felt hat.

Date Published
1935
1940
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet

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Louis Armstrong wearing a white collared shirt and playing trumpet while looking up. A tall plant and light fixture are in the background.

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet

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Louis Armstrong wearing a white collared shirt and playing trumpet while facing to the side.

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong publicity photos

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Publicity print of Louis Armstrong featuring two overlapping photos of Armstrong wearing a tuxedo. In one photo Armstrong holds a trumpet to his lips...

Date Published
1931
1935
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong sitting at the piano

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Louis Armstrong sitting at the piano holding a trumpet, smiling, and wiping his face with a handkerchief.

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong sitting at the piano

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Louis Armstrong sitting at the piano holding a trumpet and wiping his face with a handkerchief.

Date Published
1944
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong wearing double-breasted suit

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Louis Armstrong wearing double-breasted suit and raising arm while grinning. Armstrong is standing next to an NBC microphone.

Date Published
January-1939
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong with his audience

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Louis Armstrong smiling and interacting with his audience of mostly white children while holding his trumpet; performing with Zutty Singleton, Bobby...

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Publicity photo of Louis Armstrong playing trumpet

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Publicity photo of Louis Armstrong playing trumpet close to camera while holding handkerchief. Armstrong is facing away from the camera.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Publicity still from "New Orleans"

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Publicity still from film "New Orleans" featuring Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday (center) with Red Callender (bass), Zutty Singleton (drums)...

Date Published
1947
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Publicity still from "New Orleans"

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Publicity still from film "New Orleans" featuring Louis Armstrong (trumpet, looking down over piano), Zutty Singleton (drums), Red Callender (bass)...

Date Published
1947
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Publicity still of Louis Armstrong in "Swingin' the dream"

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Publicity still of Louis Armstrong grinning while wearing fireman hat and uniform coat with large buttons during production of "Swingin' the dream."

Date Published
1939
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

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Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (24)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (26)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (26)
  • Gelatin silver prints (26)
  • Publicity photographs (20)
  • Group portraits (10)
  • Film stills (2)
  • Snapshots (2)
  • (-) Portrait photographs (26)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (16)
  • 1931-1940 (7)
  • 1951-1960 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (24)
  • Jazz musicians (8)
  • African American men (6)
  • Trumpet players (4)
  • Men, White (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Flowers (1)
  • Helmets (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Lilacs (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (7)
  • Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (3)
  • Callender, Red (2)
  • Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 (2)
  • Scott, Bud, 1890-1949 (2)
  • Barnet, Charlie (1)
  • Dexter, Dave (1)
  • Dorsey, Tommy, 1905-1956 (1)
  • Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 (1)
  • Hackett, Bobby (1)
  • Hampton, Lionel (1)
  • Kaye, Danny (1)
  • Ory, Kid, 1886-1973 (1)
  • (-) Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (26)

Date Published

  • 1944 (7)
  • 1935 (5)
  • 1940 (5)
  • 1941 (3)
  • 1931 (2)
  • 1945 (2)
  • 1947 (2)
  • 1948 (2)
  • 1955 (2)
  • 1939 (1)
  • 1939-01 (1)
  • 1946 (1)
  • 1950 (1)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1965-06-10 (1)

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