{"value"=>"<p>The photographs offer a rich and detailed view of Condon's work and the musicians and friends he performed with regularly for decades. To a lesser extent, they also show his family life.</p> <p>Musicians recurring throughout the photographs include Pee Wee Russell, Bud Freeman, Wild Bill Davison, George Wettling, Joe Bushkin, Joe Marsala, Bobby Hackett, Brad Gowans, Miff Mole, Max Kaminsky, and Cutty Cutshall. Other musicians who appear with lesser frequency include Louis Armstrong, James P. Johnson, Hot Lips Page, Willie \"The Lion\" Smith, Sidney Bechet, Henry \"Red\" Allen, Lee Wiley, Edmond Hall, and Jack Teagarden.</p> <p>The photographs are in two divisions: those taken by Charles Peterson, and those taken by other photographers.</p> <p>Charles Peterson's son, Don, gave this collection of his father's prints to Condon's daughter, Maggie, in 2010. Most feature Condon in performance or informal settings. They document a 1939 jam session at the studio of Burris Jenkins, a cartoonist for Hearst Newspapers; Nick's Tavern and Condon's first club, both in Greenwich Village; and recording sessions for Commodore Records, as well as the Commodore Record Shop. Also present are photos from jam sessions held at the Park Lane Hotel.</p> <p>Some of Peterson's most famous images were shot at the Jenkins jam session; these feature Condon, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Ivie Anderson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Rex Stewart, Johnny Hodges, Cozy Cole, and other musicians. A list of the Peterson photographs, with notes by Don Peterson, is in box 2, folder 1.</p> <p>The other photographs in this series are mostly uncredited, but include work by William Gottlieb, Lisette Model, Martha Holmes, and Tony Rollo. They are in five divisions: Musicians and Friends; Eddie Condon's (club); the television program <span class=\"title\">Eddie Condon's Floor Show</span>; Portraits of Condon; and Family.</p> <p>Photographs of Musicians and Friends include pianist James P. Johnson performing with Condon; Condon with the lyricist Johnny Mercer; images of Condon and friends performing at Nick's Tavern; and a 1956 Columbia Records recording session with producer George Avakian. Also present in this set (in folders dated 1912 to the late 1960s) are images of Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, John Steinbeck, violinist Joseph Szigeti, artist Misha Reznikoff, and conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos. See notes in the container list for more detailed descriptions of these photographs.</p> <p>The photographs of Condon's clubs are arranged in sections for each of its two locations during Condon's life: 47 West Third Street and 330 West 56th Street, in addition to one set of prints for which the location is undetermined. These were mainly produced by an uncredited club photographer and feature both musicians and patrons. Those taken at the Third Street location feature Sidney Bechet and Art Hodes, among other musicians, and document the actor Kirk Douglas's visit to the club during the production of the film <span class=\"title\">Young Man With A Horn</span> (1950).</p> <p>The photographs from the set of <span class=\"title\">Eddie Condon's Floor Show</span> include Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet.</p> <p>Portraits of Condon date from his teens to late in his life. They include both formal publicity shots and informal performance images.</p> <p>The family photographs are in two sections: one of Condon with his immediate family (wife Phyllis and daughters Maggie and Eliza), and his extended family, some of which dates to the late 19th century. Some photographs of Phyllis Condon date from after her husband's death, and include informal shots of her visit to the jazz party held on the lawn of the White House in 1978.</p>"}