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Buck Clayton in the studio with Buddy Tate and others

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Buddy Tate and Earle Warren playing sax with Sir Charles Thompson, Dicky Wells, and Buck Clayton.

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

Buck Clayton, Buddy Tate, Earle Warren, Sir Charles Thompson and others

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Studio shot of Dicky Wells playing trombone, Sir Charles Thompson on piano, Earle Warren on sax, Buck Clayton on trumpet, unidentified clarinetists...

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

Buck Clayton, Buddy Tate, Earle Warren, Sir Charles Thompson and others

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Buddy Tate speaking to a group including Sir Charles Thompson, Earle Warren, Buck Clayton and others.

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

Buck playing trumpet in the studio

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Buck Clayton on trumpet with Sir Charles Thompson on piano and others in the room.

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

Damon Transcribing Facilities on the job

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Crowd gathered around representatives of Damon Transcription Laboratory, who are doing a live remote recording from Union Station, Kansas City.

Date Published
1941
1956
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Ed Roche operating a reel-to-reel recorder

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Ed Roche operating a reel-to-reel recorder manufactured by the Stancil-Hoffman Company in Hollywood.

Date Published
1953
1955
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Ed Roche standing with recording/broadcasting equipment

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Ed Roche standing with recording/broadcasting equipment.

Date Published
1967
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Group photo of a recording session

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Group photo of the sound personnel and the musicians during a recording session; featuring Dinky Morris, Clora Bryant, Snooky Young, Curtis Peagler...

Date Published
1989
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jeannie Cheatham seated with a sound engineer

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Jeannie Cheatham seated next to and speaking with an unidentified sound engineer at the sound board during a recording session.

Date Published
1989
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jimmy Cheatham and others during a recording session

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Jimmy Cheatham playing trombone with Snooky Young and Clora Bryant, trumpets, Dinky Morris, Curtis Peagler, and another unidentified saxophonist...

Date Published
1989
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Transcription Laboratory of Damon Sound Service

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Unidentified man operating record cutting lathe in the Transcription Laboratory of Damon Sound Service.

Date Published
1941
1956
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Vic Damon and unidentified man operating record cutting lathes

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Vic Damon (left, holding stopwatch) and unidentified man operating record cutting lathes.

Date Published
1941
1956
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Vic Damon holding a 16" instantaneous-cut disc

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Vic Damon holding a 16" instantaneous-cut disc and standing next to record cutting lathes at Damon Recording Studios.

Date Published
1941
1956
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Vic Damon operating equipment

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Vic Damon operating equipment at Damon Recording Studios.

Date Published
1941
1956
Member of
Vic Damon Collection

Vic Damon operating record cutting lathe

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Vic Damon operating record cutting lathe.

Date Published
1941
1956
Member of
Vic Damon Collection
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  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies
  • Sound engineers

Member of

  • Vic Damon Collection (8)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (4)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (3)

Types

  • photographs (15)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (12)
  • Gelatin silver prints (12)
  • Group portraits (9)
  • Portrait photographs (8)
  • Snapshots (7)
  • Color photographs (3)
  • Publicity photographs (2)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (7)
  • 1941-1950 (6)
  • 1981-1990 (3)
  • 1961-1970 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (7)
  • Sound studios (7)
  • Jazz musicians (6)
  • Men, White (5)
  • African American men (4)
  • Jazz musicians, White (3)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • African American women musicians (2)
  • Microphone (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Conversation (1)
  • Musical groups (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • Trombone (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Women pianists (1)
  • (-) Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (15)
  • (-) Sound engineers (15)

Subjects, People

  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (4)
  • Damon, Victor L., 1901-1974 (4)
  • Thompson, Sir Charles, 1918- (4)
  • Tate, Buddy (3)
  • Warren, Earle (3)
  • Bryant, Clora, 1927- (2)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (2)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (2)
  • Morris, Dinky (2)
  • Peagler, Curtis (2)
  • Roche, Ed (2)
  • Wells, Dicky, 1907-1985 (2)
  • Young, Snooky (2)
  • Callender, Red (1)

Date Published

  • 1941 (6)
  • 1956 (6)
  • 1961 (4)
  • 1970 (4)
  • 1989 (3)
  • 1953 (1)
  • 1955 (1)
  • 1967 (1)

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