Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

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The Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection was donated to LaBudde Special Collections by Clayton's wife, Patricia. The collection, which spans from 1928 to Clayton's death in 1991, contains material related to the jazz composer/arranger/trumpeter's personal and professional life.
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Photo album page mostly of Buck and Derb in Hawaii

Buck and Derb with members of the band "A bunch at Hawaiians"; Buck and Derb with members of the band "Arriving in Honolulu"; Derb with three unidentified people "High Diver & Entertainers"; Buck and Derb at the Queen's Palace (Honolulu); Buck, Derb and members of the band on the Palace grounds; Buck with other band members "August in China". Side 2 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of photos mostly taken in Hawaii and a couple of photos from China

Boy with a surfboard; an unidentified man, possibly Jack Bratton; Derb with an unidentified woman and the boy with his surfboard; Buck Clayton beside a rickshaw and its driver; Buck riding a rickshaw; Joe E. Brown standing on a boat; Derb standing beside rickshaws with a tennis racket. Side 1 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of photos mostly of Derb in China

Derb and Tamara Lewis in a rickshaw with an Asian driver; an unidentified group of people with Derb and Tamara around and on a rickshaw; Derb and Tamara Lewis; two unidentified people on a rickshaw with a driver; Buck and Derb; an unidentified man named Bill on ship deck; the deck steward, Paul. Side 2 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of Derb in Honolulu

Derb in evening gown and smoking "Mrs. Clayton, Please"; Derb with an unidentified group of people beside a horse and carriage "At the Pier"; Derb in evening gown with a jacket "Doib"; Derb with an unidentified man and child all crouching with a dog "Happy Anne Derb"; "Sonny Lewis"; Buck Clayton crouching with a dog "Buck"; a "Pool in Honolulu" with all boys. Side 1 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of the ship to Honolulu and a few tourist sites

Two unidentified men "Savage Serenade"; two members of the band, possibly Teddy Buckner and Duke Upshaw, "Two Brass Masters"; "Derb in Honolulu" holding a child; "Buck at Waikiki" in a swimsuit sitting on a seawall; "Queen's Palace (Honolulu)" mostly a photo of cars; Reginald Jones, Happy Lewis and Herbert "Bumps" Meyers "Jonsey Happy & Bumps"; Herbert "Bumps" Meyers "Bumps in "his" Pilch"; the ship named "Pres Hoover"; Joe McCutcheon with Teddy Weatherford "Vendome Boys"; "Little Hawaiian Girl"; and a profile photo of an unidentified woman titled "Sister Litvit". Side 2 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of Buck and Derb playing tennis

Buck about to serve in tennis standing by the court net; an Asian man pulling a double rickshaw with two African American men on board, the first man is possibly playing tennis standing by the court net, jokingly titled "Helen Wills"; Buck looking down at a tennis racket by the court net jokingly titled "Bill Tilden"; Derb with members of the band dressed all in white suits titled "The Gang"; Derb standing by tennis court net with two rackets under her arm titled "My Babe"; Derb with four Asian men titled "Derb and her boys". Side 1 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of Buck, Derb, Tommy, and Sonny in China

Derb with Sonny Lewis; members of the band; Buck with Tamara Lewis; Derb with Tamara Lewis; Derb with an unidentified Asian man with a bicycle; Buck with Derb, "Tommy," and Sonny Lewis; Buck. Side 2 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of the Harlem Gentlemen band in China

Members of the Harlem Gentlemen band captioned "Our Gang" & our Penthouse; an unidentified man possibly Baby Lewis; members of the band and an Asian gentleman surrounding a small potted tree; Earl Waley, (leader of the Santa Anna Band) leaning over a rooftop wall; Andy (Leader of Ambassador Band) standing on rooftop, smiling with cigar and wearing knickers; members of the band on a rooftop, standing and sitting around and on a pram; an unidentified man, possibly Eddie Beal, in a rickshaw with a driver; Buck with Earl Waley, Jimmie Carsons and Andy, (Four Leaders) standing on a rooftop with an unidentified band member standing behind their left side. Side 1 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of interesting people Buck and Derb met in China

Derb with an unidentified woman (photo is overexposed); Buck Clayton on the ship, President Hoover; an unidentified smiling Asian man in a uniform; two unidentified men, an Asian man and possibly Baby Lewis; an unidentified man, possibly Indian Sikh. Side 2 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of Derb and the band in Shanghai, China

Caricature of Teddy Weatherford on newsprint signed by Eveleigh; Tamara Lewis with Caughey Roberts; Tamara Lewis with Sonny Lewis and a sister; The sister, Derb, and Tamara Lewis; members of the band; Shanghai, China with handwritten captions. Side 1 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Murray & Harris

Murray and Harris; Shanghai, China. Side 2 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of Buck and the band in China with a signed Duke Ellington portrait

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.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of Buck Clayton in Shanghai with friends

Buck Clayton standing in white suit and skull cap; Joe McCutcheon and Baby Lewis with an unidentified Asian man, and Buck Clayton's head just out of the left of the photo mugging for the camera; Joe McCutcheon and Baby Lewis with an unidentified Asian man and "Babe"; Derb hugging Babe; Buck pulling Derb in a rickshaw with Baby Lewis and Joe McCutcheon standing on each side of her; Joe McCutcheon with Derb, Babe, and Baby Lewis; Shanghai, China. Side 2 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of Buck Clayton and Derb in Hawaii

Derb with Sonny Lewis titled "Sunshine Kids"; Derb with an unidentified person titled "Hotcha" & Derb; Derb in a grass skirt titled "The Hulu Gal"; Buck with Tamara Lewis title "What is This?"; Derb and Buck; Bill Hegerman in a swimsuit and swim cap titled "Bill Hegerman "on Picknic"; Buck Clayton in casual clothes titled "C'm up & see me sometimes" Picknic at Chapoo; Buck Clayton on ship deck studying papers title Business Man; Shanghai, China and Hawaii. Side 1 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Two programs from the Canidrome Ballroom

Entertainment programs and menus from the Canidrome Ballroom in Shanghai, China. Program performer information: Mistress of Ceremonies, Ursula Preston, Thelma Porter, Derby Clayton; Fay Courtney, Harlan & Janet Milner, Marya & Marta, music by Teddy Weatherford, presenting Buck Clayton and His Harlem Gentlemen. The back of the first program dated Sunday, 8th July, likely 1934 gives a performance biography of Derby Clayton and the back of the second program dated Monday, 2nd July, likely 1934 gives a performance biography of Buck Clayton and his Harlem Gentlemen. Unique menus for each evening are printed inside on the left-side panel. Side 2 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015