Contract for B.B. King and Orchestra: Museum Object and Cultural History
Contract for B.B. King and Orchestra: Date: August 18, 1955. Created by: Buffalo Booking Agency, American, founded 1950. Subject of: B.B. King, American, 1925 - 2015.
The object in the museum catalogue
A typewritten ink on Buffalo Booking Agency letterhead, contract "No. 3016" for a performance of "Four hours with usual intermission." Signature of B.B. King in lower left corner. It is unsigned by the second party.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: August 18, 1955
- Created by: Buffalo Booking Agency, American, founded 1950
- Subject of: B.B. King, American, 1925 - 2015
- Subject of: Evelyn J. Johnson, American
- Type: contracts
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 8 1/2 x 11 in. (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
- Place depicted: Houston, Texas, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Blues (Music)
- Topic: Business
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Object number: 2012.172.3
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Paxton and Rachel Baker
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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