Johnny Dankworth pencil from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway: Museum Object and Cultural History
Johnny Dankworth pencil from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway: Date: ca. 1951. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Johnny Dankworth, English, 1927 - 2010.
The object in the museum catalogue
A promotional pencil for the Johnny Dankworth Seven from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway. The unsharpened graphite pencil has a red, hexagonal body with gold text that reads [Greetings from the Johnny Dankworth Seven] on one side.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1951
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Johnny Dankworth, English, 1927 - 2010
- Subject of: The Johnny Dankworth Seven, British, 1950 - 1953
- Owned by: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994
- Type: pencils
- Medium: paint on wood with graphite
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 7 × 1/4 × 1/4 in. (17.8 × 0.7 × 0.7 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Advertising
- Topic: Band (Music)
- Topic: Communication
- Topic: Conductors (Musicians)
- Topic: Costume
- Topic: Entertainers
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Object number: A2015.273.1.1.35
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Cabella Calloway Langsam
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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