Film still of Louis Armstrong on the set of "Going Places": Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black-and-white film still of Louis Armstrong on the set of "Going Places." The silver gelatin print depicts Louis Armstrong playing the trumpet while sitting on a Salsbury Motor Glide scooter. Armstrong is wearing a plaid newsboy cap, a corduroy collared shirt, corduroy vest, leather shoes, and jeans tucked into leather half-chaps. Armstrong's cheeks are puffed as he blows into his trumpet. The scooter is white with a small front wheel, a headlight, and four thick stripes running across the front of the body and down the sides. His scooter is parked on a wide dirt pathway strewn with leaves. In the background is a line of tree. A notation is printed in the negative in the bottom right corner, [GP 83]. There are no inscriptions on the front or back of the photograph.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1938
• Photograph by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Louis Armstrong, American, 1901 - 1971
• Subject of: Salsbury Glide Motor Company, American, 1935 - 1949
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 8 15/16 × 7 1/2 in. (22.7 × 19 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 9 5/16 × 7 15/16 in. (23.6 × 20.2 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Topic: Music
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Recreation
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2013.46.25.85
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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