Newsletter for The House That Jazz Built: Museum Object and Cultural History
Newsletter for The House That Jazz Built: Date: February 1983. Created by: Maxine Sullivan, American, 1911 - 1987. Subject of: The House That Jazz Built, American, founded 1975.
The object in the museum catalogue
A special edition newsletter for The House That Jazz Built. The newsletter is on white paper with black type. The header reads: [Special Edition - Feb. 1983]. The newsletter contains information about a January 21, 1983 party and an advertisement for a Benefit Jazz Party. The back of the newsletter has a large [Thank You] in script type pasted on the top left corner, a drawing of an umbrella that has a pole made of musical notes that ends in a scale on the left side, and an address on the bottom.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: February 1983
- Created by: Maxine Sullivan, American, 1911 - 1987
- Subject of: The House That Jazz Built, American, founded 1975
- Type: newsletters
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
- Place depicted: Stebbins Avenue, Bronx, New York City, Bronx County, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Communities
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Musicians
- Object number: 2013.46.29.139
- 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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