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Frank Driggs Collection of Duke Ellington Photographic Reference Prints copy prints

National Museum of American History

Object Details

Creator
Driggs, Frank, 1930-
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Printing and Photographic Services
Names
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
Topic
Musicians -- United States
Music -- 20th century
Jazz musicians -- United States
Jazz
Provenance
Collection donated by Frank Driggs, January 11, 1991.
Creator
Driggs, Frank, 1930-
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Printing and Photographic Services
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Frank Driggs Collection of Duke Ellington Photographic Reference Prints [copy prints]
Biographical/Historical note
Photographer and collector.
Extent
0.5 Cubic feet (1 box )
Date
1923-1972
Ownership and Custodial History
Collection loaned to the Museum by Mr. Driggs, August 11, 1990. Copy prints and negatives were made by the Smithsonian Institution Office of Printing and Photographic Services and the original images were returned to Mr. Driggs, August 2, 1991.
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Identifier
NMAH.AC.0389
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographs
Copy prints
Reproductions
Citation
Frank Driggs Collection of Duke Ellington Photographic Reference Prints, 1923-1972, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Arrangement
Collection arranged into ten series.
Processing Information
Processed by Archives Center staff.
Rights
The Archives Center does not own rights to these photographs. Contact respository for details.
Genre/Form
Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 1980-2000
Photographs -- 20th century
Copy prints
Reproductions
Location of Originals
Copy negatives.
Scope and Contents note
Collection consists of 157 8" x 10" black-and-white photographic copy prints of photographs in Frank Driggs's collection: Duke Ellington and his orchestra. Some copy prints have Smithsonian negative numbers.
Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Related Materials
Materials at Other Organizations Jazz at Lincoln Center The Frank Driggs Jazz Photograph Collection was acquired by Jazz at Lincoln Center in 2013. The collection also includes posters, sheet music, records and Frank Driggs' personal papers.
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1503512976435-1503512976437-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8ff3effc9-0a98-4996-92d8-de36791c69d4

In the Collection

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  • Advertisement for Small's engagement

  • Rex Stewart, Sonny Greer – "Saturday Night Swing Club" broadcast, CBS Radio

  • Wellman Braud, Joe Nanton, Juan Tizol, Otto Hardwicke, Lawrence Brown, Harry Carney, Sonny Greer, Cootie Williams, Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington, Arthur Whetsol, Barney Bigard, Freddie Jenkins, Freddy Guy -- Cotton Club, Harlem

  • Orchestra

  • Duke Ellington – Randall's Island Jam Session, New York

  • Duke Ellington -- Hurricane Club

  • Duke Ellington, Al Killian, Charlie Rouse, Harold Baker

  • Duke Ellington, Edward Arnold, Melvyn Douglas, James Cagney -- NBC Red

  • Ben Webster, Otto Hardwicke, Harry Carney, Freddy Guy

  • Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn -- Los Angeles

  • (L-R) Cootie Williams, Lawrence Brown, Wellman Brud, Johnny Hodges, Arthur Whetsol, Joe Nanton, Otto Hardwicke, Bill Bailey, Freddy Guy, Freddie Jenkins, Duke Ellington, Derby Wilson, Harry Carney, Juan Tizol, Louis Bacon, Sonny Greer, Earl Tucker -- Dallas, Texas

  • Marquee -- Brooklyn Paramount Theater

  • Duke Ellington, Paul Gonsalves, Jimmy Hamilton, Jimmy Woode, Johnny Hodges, Quentin Jackson, Russell Procope, Harry Carney, Britt Woodman, Cat Anderson, Ray Nance -- First Connecticut Jazz Festival

  • Duke Ellington

  • Sonny Greer -- private railroad car

  • Duke Ellington's Washingtonians. Sonny Greer, Charlie Irvis, Bubber Miley, Elmer Snowden, Otto Hardwicke, Duke Ellington -- New York

  • Duke Ellington, unidentified couple

  • Snakehips Tucker, Duke Ellington Orchestra

  • Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Louis Armstrong -- RCA Victor session

  • Billy Taylor, Ellington Saxes – "Saturday Night Swing Club" broadcast, CBS Radio

  • Duke Ellington

  • Duke Ellington Orchestra -- Oriental Theatre, Chicago

  • Lawrence Brown, Freddie Jenkins, Harry Carney, Barney Bigard, Freddy Guy

  • (L-R) Freddie Jenkins, Joe Nanton, Cootie Williams, Juan Tizol, Arthur Whetsol, Duke Ellington, Sonny Greer, Harry Carney, Freddy Guy, Johnny Hodges, Wendall Braud, Barney Bigard -- Oriental Theater, Chicago

  • Duke Ellington broadcasts from the British Broadcasting Company (first European tour) -- London

  • Joe Nanton, Juan Tizol, Lawrence Brown

  • Betty Roche -- Hurricane Club, New York

  • Neal Hefti, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk -- Basin Street East, New York

  • International Tours

  • Wilbur Sweatman Orchestra

  • Duke Ellington, Louis Nye

  • Sacred Concert

  • Duke Ellington, Rex Stewart, Django Reinhardt, Louis Vola, Pierre Ferret, Max Geldray, Joseph Reinhardt -- Inauguration of the Hot Club of France, Paris

  • Duke Ellington, unidentified woman, (Possibly Hazel Scott?)

  • Joe Nanton, Barney Bigard, Johnny Hodges, Freddy Guy, Billy Taylor

  • Duke Ellington, Sonny Greer, Wendell Marshall, Al Killian, Ben Webster, Harold Baker, Johnny Hodges, Shelton Hemphill, Tyree Glenn, Jimmy Hamilton, Francis Williams, Quentin Jackson, Russell Procope, Ray Nance, Harry Carney, Lawrence Brown -- Hollywood Empire, Los Angeles

  • Otto Hardwicke, Barney Bigard, Johnny Hodges -- BBC, London

  • Duke Ellington -- Hurricane Club, New York,

  • Rex Stewart, Cootie Williams, Barney Bigard, Joe Nanton, Johnny Hodges, Juan Tizol -- Savoy Ballroom, New York

  • Joe Nanton, Juan Tizol, Lawrence Brown, Ben Webster, Chauncey Haughton, Otto Hardwicke, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney -- Lakeside Park, Denver

  • Billy Taylor, Rex Stewart, Juan Tizol, Barney Bigard, "Saturday Night Swing Club" broadcast, CBS Radio

  • Ellington Orchestra publicity photo for Murder at the Vanities

  • (L-R) Joe Benjamin, Cootie Williams, Harry Carney, unidentified, Duke Ellington, Mercer Ellington, unidentified, Russell Procope, Tom Whaley, Harold Johnson, Norris Turney, Ray Nance, Harold Ashby, Rufus Jones -- St. Paul's Cathedral, Toronto

  • Duke Ellington -- Boston

  • Band Members

  • Duke Ellington, unidentified couple

  • Duke Ellington -- Toronto

  • (L-R): Earl Tucker, Juan Tizol, Arthur Whetsol, Ivie Anderson, Joe Nanton, Harry Carney, Wellman Braud, Otto Hardwicke, Duke Ellington, Freddy Guy, Freddie Jenkins, Barney Bigard, Johnny Hodges, Lawrence Brown, Sonny Greer -- Paramount Studios, Hollywood

  • Duke Ellington at recording date

  • Duke Ellington publicity photo for It Ain't No Sin, 1

  • (L-R) Harold Baker, unidentified, Shelton Hemphill, Duke Ellington, Nelson Williams, Ray Nance -- Paris

  • Bill Bailey, Sonny Greer, Bessie Dudley, Otto Hardwicke

  • Ellington Saxes, Billy Taylor, Hayes Alvis

  • Duke Ellington, Sonny Greer, Joe Nanton, Harry Carney, Otto Hardwicke, Freddy Guy, Juan Tizol, Rex Stewart, Barney Bigard, Lawrence Brown, Johnny Hodges

  • Duke Ellington, unidentified

  • Duke Ellington, 3 unidentifed women

  • Al Sears, Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges, Taft Jordan, Jimmy Hamilton, Harold Baker, Frank Williams, Russell Procope, Harry Carney -- Musicraft Records, New York

  • Billy Taylor, Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington, Rex Stewart, Joe Nanton, Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwicke, Fred Guy, Juan Tizol, Ivie Anderson, Wallace Jones, Lawrence Brown, Harry Carney, Sonny Greer – "Saturday Night Swing Club" broadcast, CBS Radio

  • Advertisement for Black and Tan

  • Duke Ellington -- L.M. Schmidlapp-Lunken Airport, Cincinnati, Ohio

  • Freddy Jenkins, Joe Nanton, Cootie Williams, Arthur Whetsol, Lawrence Brown -- Cotton Club, Harlem

  • Duke Ellington

  • Duke Ellington, Al Hibbler

  • Duke Ellington on RKO lot

  • Duke Ellington -- Hurricane Club, New York

  • Junior Raglin, Ray Nance -- Lakeside Park, Denver

  • Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn -- Los Angeles

  • Duke Ellington publicity photo for Murder at the Vanities

  • (L-R) Sonny Greer, Duke Ellington, Wallace Jones, Joe Nanton, Harold Baker, Ben Webster, Ray Nance, Juan Tizol, Rex Stewart, Johnny Hodges, Lawrence Brown, unidentified, Eddie Barefield, Harry Carney -- Hurricane Club, New York

  • Jimmy Hamilton, Russell Procope, Harry Carney, Claude Jones, Harold Barer, Lawrence Brown

  • Duke Ellington, Junior Raglin -- Denver

  • Otto Hardwicke, Rex Stewart, Ivie Anderson, Sonny Greer

  • Duke Ellington, Ivie Anderson, Harry Lin -- Colgate University Prom

  • Ellington Orchestra, recording for Master Records,

  • Barney Bigard, Johnny Hodges -- private railroad car

  • Ellington Orchestra -- Newport Jazz Festival; Newport, Rhode Island

  • Duke Ellington, Harry Carney, Sonny Greer, Ivie Anderson

  • Duke Ellington, Louise Franklin, Jump for Joy -- Los Angeles

  • Ellington with Other Performers

  • Ellington Saxes

  • Joe Nanton, Ivie Anderson

  • Duke Ellington, 5 unidentified women

  • Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope -- Newport Jazz Festival; Newport, Rhode Island

  • Ellington with Friends

  • Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Percy Grainger

  • Duke Ellington -- Palladium, London

  • Duke Ellington rehearsing for recording session

  • Duke Ellington -- Carnegie Hall

  • Hayes Alvis, Freddy Guy, Sonny Greer, Billy Taylor -- Congress Hotel, Chicago

  • Publicity

  • Joe Nanton, Barney Bigard - BBC, London

  • Duke Ellington

  • Duke Ellington, Hayes Alvis, Billy Taylor, Otto Hardwicke, Freddie Jenkins, Johnny Hodges, Freddy Guy – Randall's Island Jazz Festival

  • Duke Ellington, Inez Cavanaugh, Ralph Berton, Timme Rosenkrantz -- New York

  • Duke Ellington, Ivie Anderson -- Denver

  • Cootie Williams, Harry Carney, Lawrence Brown, -- "Saturday Night Swing Club" broadcast, CBS Radio

  • Joe Nanton, Juan Tizol, Lawrence Brown, Freddy Guy, Johnny Hodges, Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington, Sonny Greer, Ben Webster, Otto Hardwicke, Jimmy Blanton, Harry Carney, Wallace Jones, Rex Stewart, Ray Nance -- Oriental Theater, Chicago

  • Duke Ellington and friend escorted to ballroom

  • Stockholm

  • Outdoor concert -- Paris

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