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"Great Day in Harlem"

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"A Great Day in Harlem": Art Kane portrait of fifty-seven jazz musicians in Harlem; Harlem, New York.

Date Published
1958
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck age 9 on the steps to his home

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Buck Clayton, age 9, standing in front of his home wearing an apron or smock and hat.

Date Published
1920
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck and Candice's Vanguard album cover

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Candy Clayton with Buck Clayton seated on a carousel horse while Buck plays trumpet.

Date Published
1957
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck and Steven canoeing

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Buck Clayton and Steven canoeing on a lake at Muskoka Sands, Ontario, Canada.

Date Published
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck and the kids

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Buck Clayton with daughter Candice, son Steven and unidentified third child around an outdoor stove/oven.

Date Published
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton with his sisters Jean and Margery

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Buck Clayton posed with his sisters Margery and Jean.

Date Published
1919
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck holding grandbaby Dawn

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Buck Clayton holding granddaughter Dawn Rachael Parrott, about 2 years old.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck swinging with the kids

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Buck Clayton on a set of swings with Candice and Steven on either side of him.

Date Published
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Clayton men

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Simeon O. Clayton holding baby Buck Clayton on the porch of their home; with Clayton's uncle Monroe Dorsey and their dog, Duke; early spring.

Date Published
1911
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Great Day in Harlem

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Group Photo titled "A Great Day in Harlem" by Art Kane of 57 jazz musicians taken on 17 East 126th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenue in New York...

Date Published
August-12-1958
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jay McShann at the piano and surrounded by school children

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Close up of Jay McShann at the piano while surrounded by African American school children at the Lincoln Building, 18th and Vine, Kansas City...

Date Published
August-21-1996
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann at the piano and surrounded by school children

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Jay McShann at the piano while surrounded by school children at the Lincoln Building, 18th and Vine, Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
August-21-1996
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann posing for a group photo at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Group photo with: (L-R) Ben Kynard, unidentified woman, All Bartee, Ronnie McFadden, Betty Crow, Jay McShann in a white ball cap, Lonnie McFadden...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann with students around his piano

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Jay McShann at piano, surrounded by African American school children while seated at the piano in the Lincoln Building, 18th and Vine, Kansas City...

Date Published
August-21-1996
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Portrait of Buck and Steven

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Portrait of Buck and son Steven Clayton.

Date Published
1959
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Sugar Chile Robinson

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Sugar Chile Robinson sitting on the front of a piano with one leg crossed over the other. Robinson is looking up and smiling.

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

Sugar Chile Robinson

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Sugar Chile Robinson standing in front of a piano with his hands on the keys. Robinson is turning forward and smiling.

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

Sugar Chile Robinson

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Publicity photo of Sugar Chile Robinson sitting on the front of a piano and leaning on one arm while looking forward and smiling. Robinson's feet are...

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

Sugar Chile Robinson

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Angled publicity photo of Sugar Chile Robinson sitting on a piano bench with hands on the piano keys, turning forward and smiling.

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection
  • Clear selected
  • African American children
  • Jazz musicians

Member of

  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (10)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (4)
  • Jay McShann Collection (4)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (19)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (15)
  • Gelatin silver prints (15)
  • Group portraits (13)
  • Snapshots (8)
  • Portrait photographs (5)
  • Publicity photographs (5)
  • Color photographs (4)
  • Architectural photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (4)
  • 1991-2000 (4)
  • 1951-1960 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (18)
  • African American men (12)
  • Boys (8)
  • Pianists (7)
  • Gifted children (4)
  • Families (3)
  • Fathers and sons (3)
  • Girls (3)
  • Piano (3)
  • School children (3)
  • African American women (2)
  • Fathers and daughters (2)
  • Infants (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Apartment houses (1)
  • Baseball caps (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Canoes and canoeing (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Dogs (1)
  • Dwellings (1)
  • Granddaughters (1)
  • Grandfathers (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Lakes (1)
  • Men, White (1)
  • Merry-go-round (1)
  • Merry-go-round horses (1)
  • Musicians--Labor unions (1)
  • Stoves (1)
  • Swings (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • (-) African American children (19)
  • (-) Jazz musicians (19)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Harlem (New York, N.Y.) (2)
  • Muskoka, Lake (Ont.) (1)
  • Parsons (Kan.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (10)
  • Clayton, Steven (4)
  • McShann, Jay (4)
  • Robinson, Sugar Chile, 1940- (4)
  • Clayton, Candice (3)
  • Bartee, Al (1)
  • Cherry, Jean, 1913-2007 (1)
  • Clayton, Margery (1)
  • Clayton, Simeon Oliver (1)
  • Crow, Betty (1)
  • Dorsey, Monroe (1)
  • Farney, Mary Ellen (1)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (1)
  • McFadden, Lonnie (1)
  • McFadden, Ronnie (1)
  • Parrott, Dawn Rachael (1)

Date Published

  • 1941 (4)
  • 1945 (4)
  • 1960 (3)
  • 1996-08-21 (3)
  • 1911 (1)
  • 1919 (1)
  • 1920 (1)
  • 1957 (1)
  • 1958 (1)
  • 1958-08-12 (1)
  • 1959 (1)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1970 (1)
  • 1991 (1)
  • 2000 (1)

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