The Jabbo Smith collection
- id
- 2976
- origination
- Smith, Jabbo, 1908-1991
- date statement
- 1930-1991
- key date
- 1930
- identifier (local_mss)
- 20204
- org unit
- Music Division
- call number
- JPB 97-65
- b-number
- b13450687
- total components
- 118
- total series
- 4
- max depth
- 2
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- created
- 2013-04-01 15:04:38 UTC
- updated
- 2017-05-24 05:44:01 UTC
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- unitid
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{"value"=>"JPB 97-65", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"20204", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1930/1991", "value"=>"1930-1991"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1930
- date_inclusive_end
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1991
- keydate
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1930
- date_start
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1930
- date_end
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1991
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"The Jabbo Smith collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2.11 cubic ft. (5 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Music Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center</span> <span class=\"addressline\">40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"\"Jabbo\" Smith, born Cladys Smith in 1908 in Pembroke, Georgia, was an African-American jazz trumpeter, trombonist and singer. He died in St. Louis in 1991. The collection consists of autobiographical material; correspondence with Lorraine Gordon and others (1957-1991); financial receipts; medical records; contracts and agreements; passports and other official documents; performance files, news articles, press releases and programs (1930-1991), including information on One Mo' Time, Chicago Kool Jazz Festival, and Jazz Fest Berlin; scrapbooks and photographs of Smith, Wynton Marsalis, Louis Armstrong, and others (1982-1991); and an account book (1969-1973) with aphorisms."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>The Jabbo Smith collection, Music Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Smith, Jabbo, 1908-1991", "type"=>"persname"}
- extent_statement
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2.11 cubic ft. (5 boxes)
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The The Jabbo Smith collection is arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20204#c1211836'>Series 1. Personal papers/correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20204#c1211884'>Series 2. Performance Files</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20204#c1211917'>Series 3. Photos and Scrapbooks</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains four scrapbooks in two boxes. Some of the pages from these books had to be disbound intact and placed in individual folders.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20204#c1211951'>Series 4 oversize</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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