Lake Havasu City Dixieland Jazz Festival Button: Museum Object and Cultural History
Lake Havasu City Dixieland Jazz Festival Button: date made: 1992. user: Levin, Floyd. Object Name: button.
The object in the museum catalogue
This button is from the Dixieland Jazz Festival in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, in 1992. It is a round button with a white background and blue and red printing covered with a clear film, on a two-piece metal button with a pin back. The button is printed:
DIXIELAND at the London Bridge [image of trumpet player] 1992 LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ.
The Dixieland Jazz Festival is an annual event held in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, home of the reconstructed “New” London Bridge built in the 1830s. The bridge was purchased by Missouri entrepreneur Robert P. McCullough from the City of London in 1968, and installed in Lake Havasu City, a city he founded.
Floyd Levin (1922-2007) was a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who turned his passion for jazz into a second career as an influential jazz journalist and historian. His numerous reviews, profiles, and articles were published in magazines such as Down Beat, Jazz Journal International, Metronome, and American Rag. He also authored Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians. Items in this collection (2011.3086) were acquired from Levin’s attendance at Jazz Festivals, conferences, and other music events.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1992
- user: Levin, Floyd
- Object Name: button
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 2 1/4 in; x 5.715 cm
- place made: United States: Arizona, Lake Havasu City
- ID Number: 2011.3086.093
- nonaccession number: 2011.3086
- catalog number: 2011.3086.093
- Credit Line: Gift of Lucille Levin
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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