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 of Buck Clayton on the streets of Shanghai with other musicians

Earl West on a rickshaw with a Asian rickshaw driver; Earl West on a rickshaw with a Asian rickshaw driver. The photo is double exposed; Buck standing with Mr. and Mrs. Percu; Buck standing with Eddie Beal in front of doors with a sign in Chinese above the doors; Buck standing on a sidewalk next to a police officer, both smoking in front of a gas pump with Pegasus under the insignia SDCONY on it; Buck standing on the sidewalk with Mrs. Percu and Eddie Beal; Buck standing on the sidewalk with an arm thrown around Mr. Percu whose are is thrown around Eddie Beal; Buck Clayton, Fedora tilted, seated in a rickshaw, rickshaw driver's left shoulder is visible; Shanghai, China.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Buck Clayton and his Harlem Gentlemen on the Canidrome Ballroom Stage, November 6th, No date; likely 1934

Portrait of Buck Clayton and his Harlem Gentlemen at the Canidrome Ballroom; Shanghai, China. Teddy Buckner, Joe McCutchin, Reginald Jones, Arcima Taylor, Duke Upshaw, Frank Pasley, Buck Clayton, Bumps Myers, Jack Bratton, Caughey Roberts, Baby Lews, Happy Johnson, Eddie Beal.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1507.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Buck Clayton and his Harlem Gentlemen on the Canidrome Ballroom Stage

Portrait of Buck Clayton and his Harlem Gentlemen at the Canidrome Ballroom; Shanghai, China. Teddy Buckner, Joe McCutchin, Reginald Jones, Arcima Taylor, Duke Upshaw, Frank Pasley, Buck Clayton, Bumps Myers, Jack Bratton, Caughey Roberts, Baby Lews, Happy Johnson, Eddie Beal.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1508.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page with photos and newspaper clippings from China

A torn photo of Buck Clayton's sister, Margery and Clarence; Jimmie Carson and a band on a rooftop; Mrs. Percu leaning on a fence in front of a billboard in Chinese; two newspaper clippings about the fight in the Canidrome Ballroom between Buck Clayton and E.T. Jack Riley; Shanghai, China.
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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All about the fight at the Canidrome

Tamara Lewis; Jimmie Carson; Joe McCutcheon with Teddy Weatherford; newspaper clippings about the fight in the Canidrome Ballroom that resulted in Buck Clayton and his Harlem Gentlemen leaving Shanghai; Shanghai, China.
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Canidrome Ballroom with an "X" where the fight took place.

Buck Clayton and his Harlem Gentlemen performing before an audience at the Canidrome Ballroom with an "X" and a dotted line following where the fight took place; Shanghai, China.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Canidrome Ballroom with Mort Ruby pointed out

Buck Clayton and his Harlem Gentlemen performing as people dance at the Canidrome Ballroom. Mort Ruby with an arrow is written on the picture; Shanghai, China.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1512.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Canidrome yards

The Canidrome race track gate building, Shanghai, China.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1513.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of Buck, the band, wives, and dancers in Shanghai, China

Buck and Derb kissing while leaning on a fence with Buck peeking at the photographer; Derb with a racially diverse group of people; Buck leaning his back against a fence as a woman's hand caresses his right cheek with Tamara and Sonny Lewis in the background; Sonny Lewis and Tamara Lewis standing in a park in front of a tower; A group of people standing arm in arm, including Tamara Lewis, Buck, Derby; the same racially diverse group as described before in a picture captioned "Canidrome Cast"; Sonny Lewis and three unidentified people.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page the trip from Shanghai to Honolulu

A person diving from the side of a ship beside a lifeboat captioned "Joe E. Brown taking picture"; People on a pier waving captioned "Leaving Honolulu"; an Asian man standing, with a walking stick and basket, carrying a person on his back while a rickshaw and driver pass behind captioned "Shanghai Beggars"; a photo of the "Harlem Gentlemen" with a small boy; a photo of a pier with a tugboat going by captioned "Aloha"; a photo of a ship deck shuffleboard court with Joe E Brown in a suit in the foreground, Buck and Derb in swimsuits over Joe's right shoulder and other members of the Harlem Gentlemen over Joe's right shoulder.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Buck Clayton portrait, 1933

Portrait of Buck Clayton.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1516.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Buck Clayton with a jazz ensemble in Paris

Buck Clayton performing on stage with (left to right) Roy Eldridge, trumpet; Vic Dickenson, trombone; Oliver Jackson, drums; Bud Freeman, tenor saxophone; and Earle Warren, alto saxophone.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Buck Clayton with a jazz ensemble in Brussels

Buck Clayton performing on stage with (left to right) Jimmy Witherspoon, vocals; Sir Charles Thompson, piano; Gene Ramey, bass; Oliver Jackson, drums.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1518.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Close-up portrait of Art Farmer playing trumpet

Art Farmer on trumpet.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Jimmy Rushing and Buck Clayton

Buck Clayton's elbow on Jimmy Rushing's shoulder. Jimmy Rushing is leaning against a brick wall. They are both wearing suits and trench coats. Buck is smoking; Chelsea, London, England.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015