Finding Aid for the Collection of Big band photographs, 1930-1945
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UCLA Library Special Collections
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Collection of Big band photographs
Date (inclusive): 1930-1945
Collection number: 88-M
Extent:
1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: The collection consists of commercial publicity
photographs of American dance bands, combo bands and singers.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Transferred from the UCLA Theater Arts Library, ca. 1978.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Collection of Big band photographs (Collection Number 88-M). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Scope and Content
Collection mostly consists of commercial publicity photographs of American dance bands, combo bands and singers, such as Ray
Herback, Tiny Hill, Hoosier Hot Shots, Eddy Howard, Dick Jurgens, Gene Krupa, Jack Leonard, Light Crust Doughboys, Louise
Massey and the Westerners, Frankie Masters, Ray Noble, Kate Smith, Alec Templeton, Orrin Tucker and Bonnie Baker, Horace Henderson,
Eddy Duchin, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Roy Acuff and his Smokey Mountain Boys, Gene Autry, Horace Heidt, Charlie Winninger,
Benny Goodman's Sensational Swing Band, Paul Whiteman, and others.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Big bands --Photographs.
Container List
Box 1, Item 20
Acuff, Roy
Scope and Content Note
With his Smokey Mountain Boys
Box 1, Item 109
Ash, Paul
Scope and Content Note
With members of the "Paul Ash Every Week Club."
Box 1, Item 21
Autry, Gene
Note
With list of releases
Box 1, Item 18
Basie, Count
Note
2 copies with list of releases
Box 1, Item 72
Biamonte, Louis
Scope and Content Note
With: Frank chase; Andre Kostelanetz; Toots Mondello and Chester Hazlett.
Box 1, Item 80
Boswell, Connie
Note
With list of releases
Box 1, Item 54
Bradley, Will
Scope and Content Note
With Bill Corti and Jimmy Emery.
Box 1, Item 81
Bruce, Carol
Note
With list of releases
Box 1, Item 19
Calloway, Cab
Note
With list of releases
Box 1, Item 106
Cavallaro, Carmen
Note
With list of releases
Box 1, Item 53
Duren, Joe
Scope and Content Note
With Tommy Tucker and Kerwin Sommerville.
Box 1, Item 50
Goodman, Benny
Scope and Content Note
Swing band.
Box 1, Item 103
Glen Gray's Brass Section
1935 April 10
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Billy Rauch; Sonny Durham; Grady Watts; Pee Wee Hunt; Bobby Jones
and Fritz Hummel.
Box 1, Item 101
Glen Gray's Reed Section
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Pat Davis; Art Ralson; clarence Hutchenrider; Kenny Sargent and
Glen Gray.
Box 1, Item 90
Gray, Glen
Note
With list of releases
Box 1, Item 22
Heidt, Horace
Note
With list of releases
Box 1, Item 24
Heidt, Horace
Scope and Content Note
With Jimmy Skiles.
Box 1, Item 105
Herman, Woody
Note
With list of releases
Box 1, Item 110
Woody Herman Invitations
Scope and Content Note
Invitations to publicity appearances.
Box 1, Item 89
Herth, Milt
Note
With list of releases
Box 1, Item 4
Howard, Eddy
Note
2 copies with list of releases
Box 1, Item 124
Sonny James Orchestra
Scope and Content Note
Incribed, "to the Rossmans from Sonny James and his orchestra."
Box 1, Item 102
Koven, Jack
1935 February 12
Scope and Content Note
With: John D'Agostino and Jimmy Milazzo.
Box 1, Item 6
Krupa, Gene
Note
2 copies with list of releases
Box 1, Item 7
Leonard, Jack
Note
2 copies with list of releases
Box 1, Item 8
Light Crust Doughboys
Note
2 copies with list of releases
Box 1, Item 86
Long, Johnny
Note
With list of releases
Box 1, Item 100
Vincent Lopez Sax Section
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Edward Anderson; Larry Tise; Vincent Lopez; George Tudor and
Stanley Worth.
Box 1, Item 100
Vincent Lopez Sax Section
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Edward Anderson; Larry Tise; Vincent Lopez; George Tudor and
Stanley Worth.
Box 1, Item 88
Luther, Frank
Note
With list of releases
Box 1, Item 111
Martin, Tony
Scope and Content Note
publicity postcard
Box 1, Item 9
Masse, Louise
Scope and Content Note
With the Westerners
Note
3 copies with list of releases
Box 1, Item 64
McMichen, Clayton
Scope and Content Note
With his Georgia Wildcats.
Box 1, Item 68
Bennie Meroff's Brass
1934 November
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Red Pepper; Al King; Larry Powell; Jack Marshall and Ford
Caufield.
Box 1, Item 91
The Merry Mals
Note
With list of releases
Box 1, Item 60
Moore, Don
Scope and Content Note
With: Mickey Bloom; Harry Wilford; Red Stanley and Bill Robertson.
Box 1, Item 96
Ozzie Nelson's Brass
1935 January 4
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Boe Ashford; Harry Johnson; Abe Lincoln; Elmer and Holly
Humphreys.
Box 1, Item 11
Noble, Ray
Note
2 copies with list of releases
Box 1, Item 97
The Rhythm Knights
1936 November 12
Scope and Content Note
Inscribed, "To my friends at Irvings, Clem Wasleski." Atlantic City, N.J.
Box 1, Item 87
Rios, Elvira
Note
With list of releases
Box 1, Item 117
Saltzman, Ben
1936
Scope and Content Note
With: Tom Longley; John Harold Ferrin. Inscribed, "Best Wishes to Irving
Music Shoppe. Ben Saltzman."
Box 1, Item 13
Smith, Kate
Note
With list of releases
Box 1, Item 98
Dick Stabile Sax Section
1936 September 4
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Fred Pfeifer; Joe Stabile; Adrian Tei; George Kaetz and Dick
Stabile.
Box 1, Item 69
Teagarden, Jack
Scope and Content Note
With Charlie Teagarden.
Box 1, Item 15
Tucker, Orrin
Scope and Content Note
With Bonnie Baker.
Note
2 copies with list of releases
Box 1, Item 108
Rudy Vallee Orchestra Brass
1934 December 26
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Red Stanley; Don Moore; Mickey Bloom; Harry Wilford and Bill
Robertson.
Box 1, Item 107
Vallee, Rudy
Scope and Content Note
With Frank Staff.
Box 1, Item 84
Weems, Ted
Note
With list of releases
Box 1, Item 65
Whiteman, Paul
Scope and Content Note
With: Helen Foster; Rita Walsh and Norman Paige.
Box 1, Item 121
Whiteman, Paul
Scope and Content Note
Inscribed.
Box 1, Item 45
Wiener, Jeanne
Scope and Content Note
At the console of the organ in the music stall of the Street Pier, Atlantic
City, N.J.
Box 1, Item 95
Wiener, Jeanne
Scope and Content Note
With her accordion
Box 1, Item 23
Winniger, Charlie
Scope and Content Note
With Ralph Winger, Jerry "Muscle" Bowne and Jimmy Skiles.
