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Created by: Freed, Leonard, American, 1929 - 2006
Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W: 10 1/4 x 15 1/8 in. (26 x 38.4 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints; portraits

Place depicted: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1965

Description: Silver gelatin photograh featuring an image of two men with hats shown playing brass instruments during a funeral procession.

Topic: African American; Instrumentalists (Musicians); Photography; Soul (Music)

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Brigitte Freed in memory of Leonard Freed

Object number: 2009.36.3

Restrictions & Rights: © Leonard Freed/Magnum

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Felt hat with medallion worn by Bo Diddley

Created by: Resistol Hats, American, founded 1927
Owned by: Diddley, Bo, American, 1928 - 2008

Medium: felt, silver
Dimensions: H x W (hat): 5 3/4 x 12 x 13 in. (14.6 x 30.5 x 33 cm); L x W (hatbox): 18 1/2 x 15 x 8 in. (47 x 38.1 x 20.3 cm)

Type: hats

Date: ca. 1992

Description: Hat worn on stage by Bo Diddley for the last 15 years of his career, including his final performance on May 12, 2007. The hat is made of black felt, with brown trim around the brim and a wide black ribbon band featuring the silver medallion bearing the name "BO" designed by Diddly himself. There are several other decorative elements attached to the band: a round "BLUES" pin, a Smokey Bear pin, a Florida Department of Agriculture Division of Forestry pin, and a gold pin in the shape of an alligator.

Topic: African American; Blues (Music); Clothing and dress; Instrumentalists (Musicians); Rhythm and blues (Music); Rock and roll (Music); Singers (Musicians)

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number: 2009.42.1ab

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Clothing-Costume
Exhibition: Musical Crossroads
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Culture/Fourth Floor, 4 053

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Street Musicians

Created by: Schwartz, Joe, American, 1913 - 2013
Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (Image): 14 5/16 x 19 5/16 in. (36.3 x 49.1 cm); H x W (Sheet): 19 7/8 x 15 15/16 in. (50.5 x 40.5 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

Place depicted: Kentucky, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1940s

Caption: Street Musicians - East 6th Street, Kentucky, 1940's; Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 74.
Description: A black-and-white photograph of street musicians playing a guitar, string bass, and third unseen instrument on the sidewalk.

Topic: African American; Instrumentalists (Musicians); Photography

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Joe Schwartz and Family

Object number: 2010.74.67

Restrictions & Rights: © Joe Schwartz

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Serenaders of Kingsboro

Created by: Schwartz, Joe, American, 1913 - 2013
Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men; Unidentified Woman or Women

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (Image): 10 1/2 x 13 3/8 in. (26.7 x 34 cm); H x W (Sheet): 11 x 13 7/8 in. (27.9 x 35.2 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

Place depicted: Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, Kings County, New York, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1940s

Caption: Serenaders of Kingsboro - Kingsboro Housing Project, 6th Walk, Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York, 1940's; Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 75.
Description: A black-and-white photograph of a group of young men, two of whom play guitars, posing for the photograph.

Topic: African American; Instrumentalists (Musicians); Photography

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Joe Schwartz and Family

Object number: 2010.74.68

Restrictions & Rights: © Joe Schwartz

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Eubie Blake

Created by: Walker, Bobbiegita, American, born 1942
Subject of: Blake, Eubie, American, 1887 - 1983

Medium: stoneware clay
Dimensions: 19 x 9 x 13 1/2 in. (48.3 x 22.9 x 34.3 cm)

Type: busts; portraits; sculptures

Date: 1981

Description: A three dimensional original portrait bust sculpture of Eubie Blake by the artist, Bobbiegita Walker. Made of high-fired stoneware clay, the bust (a) is complete with eye glasses (b), and depicts Blake wearing a collared shirt and tie. It is about 30 percent larger than life size.

Topic: African American; Art; Composers (Musicians); Instrumentalists (Musicians)

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bobbiegita Walker

Object number: 2011.128.1ab

Restrictions & Rights: © Bobbiegita Walker

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Classification: Visual Arts

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Life casts of Eubie Blake's hands

Created by: Walker, Bobbiegita, American, born 1942
Subject of: Blake, Eubie, American, 1887 - 1983

Medium: plaster and polyester resin
Dimensions: L x W (left hand): 10 1/2 x 4 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. (26.7 x 10.8 x 5.7 cm); L x W (right hand): 10 x 5 x 2 1/4 in. (25.4 x 12.7 x 5.7 cm)

Type: casts

Date: 1982

Description: Life casts of musician Eubie Blake's hands made of polyester resin. The casts end at the wrists and the proper left hand is pointed upwards, while the proper right hand is positioned at an angle.

Topic: African American; Art; Composers (Musicians); Instrumentalists (Musicians)

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bobbiegita Walker

Object number: 2011.128.2ab

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Visual Arts
Exhibition: Musical Crossroads
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Culture/Fourth Floor, 4 053

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Color photograph of the bust of Eubie Blake by the artist Bob Walker

Created by: Walker, Bobbiegita, American, born 1942
Subject of: Blake, Eubie, American, 1887 - 1983

Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: L x W: 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. (13.3 x 8.9 cm)

Type: snapshots; portraits

Date: 1981

Description: A color snapshot taken during Eubie Blake's modeling sessions for the portrait bust by Bobbiegita Walker. This image depicts the bus itself, with the bottom mount draped in white fabric.

Topic: African American; Art; Composers (Musicians); Instrumentalists (Musicians); Photography

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bobbiegita Walker

Object number: 2011.128.3.1

Restrictions & Rights: ©Bobbiegita Walker

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Color photograph of Eubie Blake and artist Bob Walker during modeling sessions

Photograph by: Walker, Barbara, American
Subject of: Blake, Eubie, American, 1887 - 1983; Walker, Bobbiegita, American, born 1942

Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: L x W: 3 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (8.9 x 13.3 cm)

Type: snapshots; portraits

Date: 1981

Description: A color snapshot taken during Eubie Blake's modeling sessions for the portrait bust by Bobbiegita Walker. This image depicts Blake, dressed in suit and tie, sitting to Walker's proper right as the artist works on the sculpture.

Topic: African American; Art; Composers (Musicians); Instrumentalists (Musicians); Photography

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bobbiegita Walker

Object number: 2011.128.3.10

Restrictions & Rights: ©Bobbiegita Walker

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Color photograph of Eubie Blake and artist Bob Walker during a modeling session

Photograph by: Walker, Barbara, American
Subject of: Blake, Eubie, American, 1887 - 1983; Walker, Bobbiegita, American, born 1942

Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: L x W: 3 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (8.9 x 13.3 cm)

Type: snapshots; portraits

Date: 1981

Description: A color snapshot taken during Eubie Blake's modeling sessions for the portrait bust by Bobbiegita Walker. This image depicts Blake, dressed in suit and tie, sitting to Walker's proper right as the artist works on the sculpture.

Topic: African American; Art; Composers (Musicians); Instrumentalists (Musicians); Photography

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bobbiegita Walker

Object number: 2011.128.3.2

Restrictions & Rights: ©Bobbiegita Walker

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Color photograph of Eubie Blake and artist Bob Walker during a modeling session

Photograph by: Walker, Barbara, American
Subject of: Blake, Eubie, American, 1887 - 1983; Walker, Bobbiegita, American, born 1942

Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: L x W: 3 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (8.9 x 13.3 cm)

Type: snapshots; portraits

Date: 1981

Description: A color snapshot taken during Eubie Blake's modeling sessions for the portrait bust by Bobbiegita Walker. This image depicts the artist working on the sculpture in the foreground as Blake sits with the publicist Phoebe Jacobs in the background.

Topic: African American; Art; Composers (Musicians); Instrumentalists (Musicians); Photography

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bobbiegita Walker

Object number: 2011.128.3.3

Restrictions & Rights: ©Bobbiegita Walker

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Color photograph of Eubie Blake and artist Bob Walker during a modeling session

Photograph by: Walker, Barbara, American
Subject of: Blake, Eubie, American, 1887 - 1983; Walker, Bobbiegita, American, born 1942

Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: L x W: 3 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (8.9 x 13.3 cm)

Type: snapshots; portraits

Date: 1981

Description: A color snapshot taken during Eubie Blake's modeling sessions for the portrait bust by Bobbiegita Walker. This image depicts the artist working on the sculpture in the foreground as Blake sits with another man in the background.

Topic: African American; Art; Composers (Musicians); Instrumentalists (Musicians); Photography

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bobbiegita Walker

Object number: 2011.128.3.4

Restrictions & Rights: ©Bobbiegita Walker

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Color photograph of Eubie Blake and artist Bob Walker during a modeling session

Photograph by: Walker, Barbara, American
Subject of: Blake, Eubie, American, 1887 - 1983; Walker, Bobbiegita, American, born 1942

Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: L x W: 3 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (8.9 x 13.3 cm)

Type: snapshots; portraits

Date: 1981

Description: A color snapshot taken during Eubie Blake's modeling sessions for the portrait bust by Bobbiegita Walker. This image depicts the Blake, dressed in a suit and tie, in the foreground as the artist works on the sculpture in the background. Walker is smiling at Blake, who appears to be talking.

Topic: African American; Art; Composers (Musicians); Instrumentalists (Musicians); Photography

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bobbiegita Walker

Object number: 2011.128.3.5

Restrictions & Rights: ©Bobbiegita Walker

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Color photograph of Eubie Blake and artist Bob Walker during a modeling session

Photograph by: Walker, Barbara, American
Subject of: Blake, Eubie, American, 1887 - 1983; Walker, Bobbiegita, American, born 1942

Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: L x W: 3 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (8.9 x 13.3 cm)

Type: snapshots; portraits

Date: 1981

Description: A color snapshot taken during Eubie Blake's modeling sessions for the portrait bust by Bobbiegita Walker. This image depicts the Blake, dressed in a suit and tie, in the foreground as the artist works on the sculpture in the background.

Topic: African American; Art; Composers (Musicians); Instrumentalists (Musicians); Photography

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bobbiegita Walker

Object number: 2011.128.3.6

Restrictions & Rights: ©Bobbiegita Walker

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Color photograph of Eubie Blake during modeling sessions for artist Bob Walker

Photograph by: Walker, Bobbiegita, American, born 1942
Subject of: Blake, Eubie, American, 1887 - 1983

Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: L x W: 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. (13.3 x 8.9 cm)

Type: snapshots; portraits

Date: 1981

Description: A color snapshot taken during Eubie Blake's modeling sessions for the portrait bust by Bobbiegita Walker. This image depicts the Blake, dressed in a suit and tie, sitting and looking at the camera.

Topic: African American; Art; Composers (Musicians); Instrumentalists (Musicians); Photography

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bobbiegita Walker

Object number: 2011.128.3.7

Restrictions & Rights: ©Bobbiegita Walker

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Color photograph of Eubie Blake during modeling sessions for artist Bob Walker

Photograph by: Walker, Bobbiegita, American, born 1942
Subject of: Blake, Eubie, American, 1887 - 1983

Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: L x W: 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. (13.3 x 8.9 cm)

Type: snapshots; portraits

Date: 1981

Description: A color snapshot taken during Eubie Blake's modeling sessions for the portrait bust by Bobbiegita Walker. This image depicts the Blake, dressed in a suit and tie, sitting and looking at the camera.

Topic: African American; Art; Composers (Musicians); Instrumentalists (Musicians); Photography

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bobbiegita Walker

Object number: 2011.128.3.8

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Color photograph of Eubie Blake with bust portrait sculpture by Bob Walker

Photograph by: Walker, Bobbiegita, American, born 1942
Subject of: Blake, Eubie, American, 1887 - 1983

Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: L x W: 3 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (8.9 x 13.3 cm)

Type: snapshots; portraits

Date: 1981

Description: A color snapshot taken during Eubie Blake's modeling sessions for the portrait bust by Bobbiegita Walker. This image depicts the Blake next to bust.

Topic: African American; Art; Composers (Musicians); Instrumentalists (Musicians); Photography

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bobbiegita Walker

Object number: 2011.128.3.9

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Promotional card for a piano recital given by Eunice Waymon (Nina Simone)

Printed by: Unidentified
Subject of: Simone, Nina, American, 1933 - 2003; National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc., founded 1919

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 2 1/4 x 3 7/8 in. (5.7 x 9.8 cm)

Type: advertising cards

Place depicted: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1954

Description: An advertising card for a piano recital performed by Eunice Waymon at age 21. The recital cost $1.30 to attend and was sponsored by the Philadelphia Branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc.

Topic: African American; Instrumentalists (Musicians)

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number: 2011.132.2

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Exhibition: Musical Crossroads
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Culture/Fourth Floor, 4 053

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Photographic print of "Krazy" Kris Kolumbo

Photograph by: Unidentified
Subject of: Kolumbo, Krazy Kris, 1902 - 2002; Club Harlem, American, 1935 - 1986

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints; portraits

Date: mid 20th century

Description: A black and white portrait photograph of "Krazy" Kris Kolumbo wearing a short-sleeved collared white shirt and a vest. He is looking at the camera over his left shoulder with his left arm raised at the elbow holding a lit cigarette.

Topic: African American; Instrumentalists (Musicians); Jazz (Music); Photography

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Henrietta W. Shelton, Chicken Bone Beach Historical Foundation, Inc.

Object number: 2011.145.10

Restrictions & Rights: Unknown - Restrictions Possible

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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Photocollage of entertainers

Compiled by: Unidentified
Photograph by: Unidentified
Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men; Unidentified Woman or Women

Medium: ink on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)

Type: black-and-white photographs; collages

Date: early 20th-mid 20th Century

Description: Black-and-white photocollage of various performers and performances.

Topic: African American; Entertainers; Instrumentalists (Musicians); Photography; Singers (Musicians)

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Henrietta W. Shelton, Chicken Bone Beach Historical Foundation, Inc.

Object number: 2011.145.3.1

Restrictions & Rights: Unknown - Restrictions Possible

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography; Memorabilia and Ephemera

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Photographic print of a performance by Melvin Harris and the Blue Notes

Photograph by: Unidentified
Subject of: Club Harlem, American, 1935 - 1986; Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, American, founded 1954; Pendergrass, Teddy, American, 1950 - 2010

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 in. (15.6 x 23.5 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

Place depicted: Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

Date: ca. 1975

Description: A black and white photograph of a performance by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on stage at Club Harlem in Atlantic City, with a full band behind them and audience members sitting at tables at the front of the stage. Teddy Pendergrass, the lead vocalist, is pictured in the center of the stage facing the audience while behind him the rest of the group face stage left, with left knees slightly bent. There are no inscriptons, front or back.

Topic: African American; Instrumentalists (Musicians); Nightlife; Photography; Singers (Musicians)

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Henrietta W. Shelton, Chicken Bone Beach Historical Foundation, Inc.

Object number: 2011.145.7

Restrictions & Rights: Unknown - Restrictions Possible

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

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