Obituaries

Object Details

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep814928737-90dc-4f44-8ded-48798b2163f9

Collection Creator

Garland, Ed

Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971

Morton, Jelly Roll, 1890-1941

Collection Collector

Levin, Floyd, 1922-2007

Collection Creator

Darensbourg, Joe, 1906-1985

Davison, Bill

Blake, Eubie (James Herbert), 1883-1983

Wilson, Buster

Collection Donor

Levin, Lucille

Collection Creator

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

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Floyd Levin Jazz Reference Collection

Floyd Levin Jazz Reference Collection / Series 5: Artists Files

Sponsor

Processing and encoding funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.

Date

1941 - 2004

Archival Repository

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Identifier

NMAH.AC.1222, Subseries 5.2

Type

Archival materials

Collection Citation

Floyd Levin Jazz Reference Collection, 1880-2010, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collection Rights

Reproduction restricted due to copyright or trademark. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Scope and Content Note

Contains Levin's personal log of the deaths of jazz musicians as well as the obituaries and written tributes he collected. These files, which are arranged in chronological order but overlap in dates, were organized by Levin himself and were thus kept according to his structure.

Collection Restrictions

The collection is open for research. Only reference copies of audiovisual materials may be used.

Record ID

ebl-1562715276631-1562715304243-1