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Photo album page including a Boston Terrier and a few photos in their wedding clothes

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Pantages Theatre marquee with Buck Clayton as a performer; Buck Clayton with unidentified man boxing; Buck Clayton holding Derb still in their wedding...

Date Published
1934
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of a young Buck Clayton and Derb in fashionable clothing

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Buck Clayton in suit with hands on hips pushing back jacket; Buck Clayton in suit with sunglasses and beret with left hand pushing back jacket; Buck...

Date Published
1934
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of Buck and Derb on their way to China

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Derb on the S.S. President Hoover; Duke Ellington playing trumpet for Derb and Buck on their wedding day titled "A big bunch of Jibe" (A la Louie)...

Date Published
1934
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of Buck and Derb playing tennis

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Buck about to serve in tennis standing by the court net; an Asian man pulling a double rickshaw with two African American men on board, the first man...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of Derb in different stage costumes

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Four images of Derb in different costumes: Chinese gal, Russian gal, American gal, and Brittish [sic] gal; a portrait of Buck Clayton title "Bucky...

Date Published
1934
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of photos mostly of Derb in China

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Derb and Tamara Lewis in a rickshaw with an Asian driver; an unidentified group of people with Derb and Tamara around and on a rickshaw; Derb and...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Photo album page of photos mostly taken in Hawaii and a couple of photos from China

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Boy with a surfboard; an unidentified man, possibly Jack Bratton; Derb with an unidentified woman and the boy with his surfboard; Buck Clayton beside...

Date Published
1934
1937
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Program from the Canidrome Ballroom - Teddy Weatherford presenting Buck Clayton and his Harlem Gentlemen

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Entertainment program and menu from the Canidrome Ballroom in Shanghai, China. Program performer information: Mistress of Ceremonies, Ursula Preston...

Date Published
July-02-1934
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Two programs from the Canidrome Ballroom

Two programs from the Canidrome Ballroom

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Entertainment programs and menus from the Canidrome Ballroom in Shanghai, China. Program performer information: Mistress of Ceremonies, Ursula Preston...

Date Published
July-02-1934
July-08-1934
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Two programs from the Canidrome Ballroom

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Entertainment programs and menus from the Canidrome Ballroom in Shanghai, China. Program performer information: Mistress of Ceremonies, Ursula Preston...

Date Published
July-02-1934
July-08-1934
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Two programs from the Canidrome Ballroom

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