Grammy Award, presented to Ella Fitzgerald: Museum Object and Cultural History
Grammy Award, presented to Ella Fitzgerald: presentation date: 1958. recipient: Fitzgerald, Ella. presenter: National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
The object in the museum catalogue
This award was presented to Ella Fitzgerald by The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS), in 1958. It is a medium-brown stained wood base with a gold-tone gramophone on top and engraved metal plate. Jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald received this Grammy for either Best Vocal Performance, Female for the album, Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Song Book, or Best Jazz Performance, Individual for the album, Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book. The metal plate is engraved:
Materials, dates and provenance
- presentation date: 1958
- recipient: Fitzgerald, Ella
- presenter: National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
- Object Name: award
- Physical Description: wood (overall material)
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 6 5/16 in x 4 5/8 in x 5 in; 16.03375 cm x 11.7475 cm x 12.7 cm
- place made: United States
- Subject: Awards and Prizes
- ID Number: 1996.0342.041
- accession number: 1996.0342
- catalog number: 1996.0342.041
- Credit Line: Gift of Fitzgerald 1989 Trust
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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