Photo album page of Buck and the band in China with a signed Duke Ellington portrait

Description

Buck Clayton standing in white suit with handwritten caption "Tropical"; signed "To Buck Clayton Best Wishes Duke Ellington" portrait of Duke Ellington in script and green ink and captioned "The Duke"; Buck, Babe and Sonny Lewis riding a rickshaw with two band members pulling the rickshaw captioned Shanghai Yellow Cab; Buck and Derb with an unidentified woman captioned Babe Buck Derb; Buck and Joe McCutcheon with two unidentified men, possibly Cole Porter or Sam Browne or unidentified and Baby Lewis, captioned All Otays; Joe McCutcheon and Buck Clayton pulling a rickshaw with the Asian rickshaw driver in the rickshaw and captioned "Left Side"; Shanghai, China. Side 1 of 2-sided photo-album panel.

Note

No date; likely between 1934 and 1937, 6 photos mounted on a photo album page with handwritten captions. Top row, left to right: "Tropical", "The Duke", and Shanghai Yellow Cab. Bottom row, left to right: Babe Buck Derb, "All Otays", and "Left Side".

Date Issued

1934 to 1937

Type

Image

Extent

6 photographs : black and white print ; 11 x 7 cm on card mount 27 x 34 cm

Genre

Gelatin silver prints

Group portraits

Member of

Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Time Period

1931-1940

Subject (Name)

Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991

Clayton, Derb

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

Subject (Topical)

African American jazz musicians

African American women

Subject (Geographic)

Shanghai (China)

Rights

Copyright Undetermined

Rights Note

Items in this collection may be freely viewed, searched, and displayed for research and educational purposes. Permission is required for publication, distribution, or other uses beyond viewing and searching, whether in print or electronic formats.

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Collection Identifier: MS-0015

Source

Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

Unit

LaBudde Special Collections