Portrait of Louis Armstrong, Carnegie Hall, New York, N.Y., ca. Apr. 1947

Gottlieb, William P. (1917-2006‏)


Item type:
photographic object
Date of creation:
ca. 1947
Height:
5.7 cm  (2 1/4 in.)
Width:
5.7 cm  (2 1/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
photography

    Item location

  • Library of Congress
    William P. Gottlieb - Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz[Museum inv. no.: LC-GLB23-0021 DLC (b&w film neg.)]Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division (negative)
    Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division (contact print)
    Library of Congress Music Division (reference print)

Description

Caption from Down Beat: [from article] My photo of Louis shows him just before the concert. The horn you see belongs to Bobby Hackett. Louis' had just been stolen. Satchmo' had to borrow a mute, too. All he had of his own for the concert was his mouthpiece, which he had in his pocket when the thief grabbed his case. Horn has since been recovered at a pawn shop.

People as subjects

Armstrong, Louis (1901-1971) (Musician)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Trumpet [4446]

Image URLs

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high resolution image
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Library of Congress catalog

Bibliographic references

Gottlieb, William. The golden age of jazz: On-location portraits, in words and pictures, of more than 200 outstanding musicians from the late '30s through the '40s (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979) 34-35.

RIdIM record id

3366